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This unique text looks at the history of the city by focusing on a series of critical issues in urban design that are exemplified by cities like Paris, London, New York, Berlin, Vienna and Chicago at particular times in the 19th and 20th centuries. Each... [ More...]
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The supposed rationality of the urban planning of the Modern Movement encompassed a variety of attitudes towards history, technology and culture, from the vision of Berlin as an American metropolis, through the dispute between the urbanists and disurbanists... [ More...]
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"Modern Architecture in St. Louis chronicles the exciting evolution of architecture in the St. Louis area between 1948 and 1973 with insightful essays by established architectural scholars on the significant aspects of modern architecture in St. Louis and... [ More...]
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In Alfred Hitchcock’ s "To Catch a Thief," a seaside resort was the setting for thievery and intrigue. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers tap-danced their way to fame at a Brighton resort in "The Gay Divorcee," The seaside resort has always held a special... [ More...]
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A country surrounded by mountains, Yemen has for many centuries remained untouched by and resistant to foreign influences. Turned in upon itself Yemen is a world whose arts and architecture preserve many links with the past, while integrating the modern... [ More...]
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Strangely, it is expected of any original or exceptionally creative architect that he or she must - somehow - be able to communicate ideas through a lecture. As a result, a whole culture of presentation, discussio, criticism and theory has arisen. The... [ More...]
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Combining history, theory, and polemic, George Baird probes the conceptual lineage and current expressions of postmodernism and the critique of modernist architecture over the past four decades, revealing the general failure to develop an architecture that... [ More...]
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Built to bring Christianity and European civilization to the northern frontier of New Spain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . . . secularized and left to decay in the nineteenth century . . . and restored in the twentieth century, the Spanish... [ More...]
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Chetham's School and Library is an exceptional example of fifteenth-century collegiate architecture—the best preserved building of its date and type in England. Located in the heart of Manchester, Chetham's originally lodged the college of... [ More...]
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At a time when the fragmented ideas and styles in architecture make it seem as if "anything goes," "Anything asks whether there are constraints to thought and action that change "anything" to "the thing." In thirty-two original essays, many of them... [ More...]
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