Our Journey To The East 1910 1911
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Our Journey To The East 1910 1911
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Author : H. Harden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1911
Our Journey To The East 1910 1911 written by H. Harden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1911 with categories.
Le Corbusier
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Author : Nicholas Fox Weber
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2008-11-11
Le Corbusier written by Nicholas Fox Weber and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of Balthus and Patron Saints—the first full-scale life of le Corbusier, one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth century, heralded is a prophet in his lifetime, revered as a god after his death. He was a leader of the modernist movement that sought to create better living conditions and a better society through housing concepts. He predicted the city of the future with its large, white apartment buildings in parklike settings—a move away from the turn-of-the-century industrial city, which he saw as too fussy and suffocating and believed should be torn down, including most of Paris. Irascible and caustic, tender and enthusiastic, more than a mercurial innovator, Le Corbusier was considered to be the very conscience of modern architecture. In this first biography of the man, Nicholas Fox Weber writes about Le Corbusier the precise, mathematical, practical-minded artist whose idealism—vibrant, poetic, imaginative; discipline; and sensualism were reflected in his iconic designs and pioneering theories of architecture and urban planning. Weber writes about Le Corbusier’s training; his coming to live and work in Paris; the ties he formed with Nehru . . . Brassaï . . . Malraux (he championed Le Corbusier’s work and commissioned a major new museum for art to be built on the outskirts of Paris) . . . Einstein . . . Matisse . . . the Steins . . . Picasso . . . Walter Gropius, and others. We see how Le Corbusier, who appreciated goverments only for the possibility of obtaining architectural commissions, was drawn to the new Soviet Union and extolled the merits of communism (he never joined the party); and in 1928, as the possible architect of a major new building, went to Moscow, where he was hailed by Trotsky and was received at the Kremlin. Le Corbusier praised the ideas of Mussolini and worked for two years under the Vichy government, hoping to oversee new construction and urbanism throughout France. Le Corbusier believed that Hitler and Vichy rule would bring about “a marvelous transformation of society,” then renounced the doomed regime and went to work for Charles de Gaulle and his provisional government. Weber writes about Le Corbusier’s fraught relationships with women (he remained celibate until the age of twenty-four and then often went to prostitutes); about his twenty-seven-year-long marriage to a woman who had no interest in architecture and forbade it being discussed at the dinner table; about his numerous love affairs during his marriage, including his shipboard romance with the twenty-three-year-old Josephine Baker, already a legend in Paris, whom he saw as a “pure and guileless soul.” She saw him as “irresistibly funny.” “What a shame you’re an architect!” she wrote. “You’d have made such a good partner!” A brilliant revelation of this single-minded, elusive genius, of his extraordinary achivements and the age in which he lived.
An Illuminated Life Belle Da Costa Greene S Journey From Prejudice To Privilege
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Author : Heidi Ardizzone
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2007-06-17
An Illuminated Life Belle Da Costa Greene S Journey From Prejudice To Privilege written by Heidi Ardizzone and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The secret life of the sensational woman behind the Morgan masterpieces, who lit up New York society. What would you give up to achieve your dream? When J. P. Morgan hired Belle da Costa Greene in 1905 to organize his rare book and manuscript collection, she had only her personality and a few years of experience to recommend her. Ten years later, she had shaped the famous Pierpont Morgan Library collection and was a proto-celebrity in New York and the art world, renowned for her self-made expertise, her acerbic wit, and her flirtatious relationships. Born to a family of free people of color, Greene changed her name and invented a Portuguese grandmother to enter white society. In her new world, she dined both at the tables of the highest society and with bohemian artists and activists. She also engaged in a decades-long affair with art critic Bernard Berenson. Greene is pure fascination—the buyer of illuminated manuscripts who attracted others to her like moths to a flame.
The Good Metropolis
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Author : Alexander Eisenschmidt
language : en
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Release Date : 2019-01-29
The Good Metropolis written by Alexander Eisenschmidt and has been published by Birkhäuser this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-29 with Architecture categories.
The publication presents the first historical analysis of the tension between the city and architectural form. It introduces 20th century theories to construct a historical context from which a new architecture-city relationship emerged. The book provides a conceptual framework to understand this relationship and comes to the conclusion that urbanization may be filled with potential, i.e. be a Good Metropolis.
A Shi Ite Pilgrimage To Mecca 1885 1886
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Author : Mirzâ Mohammed Hosayn Farâhâni
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2015-01-28
A Shi Ite Pilgrimage To Mecca 1885 1886 written by Mirzâ Mohammed Hosayn Farâhâni and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-28 with Religion categories.
Western accounts of the Hajj, the ritual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, are rare, since access to Mecca is forbidden to non-Muslims. In the Muslim world, however, pilgrimage literature is a well-established genre, dating back to the earliest centuries of the Islamic era. A Shiʿite Pilgrimage to Mecca is taken from the original nineteenth-century Persian manuscript of the Safarnâmeh of Mirzâ Moḥammad Ḥosayn Farâhâni, a well-educated, keenly observant, Iranian Shiʿite gentleman. This memoir holds a wealth of social and economic information about Czarist Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Northern Iran, and Arabia. The author is a meticulous observer, recording details of distances, currencies, accommodations, modes of travel, and so on. He records the experiences encountered by pilgrims of his day: physical hardships, disease, generosity and compassion, banditry, hospitality, comradeship, and exaltation. And, without prejudice, he discusses the tensions between the Shiʿites and the Sunnites in the holy places—tensions that still exist and have erupted in bloody clashes during recent pilgrimages. A Shiʿite Pilgrimage to Mecca will appeal to a wide audience of general readers, Middle Eastern scholars, anthropologists, and historians.
Towards A Public Space
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Author : Marta Sequeira
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-22
Towards A Public Space written by Marta Sequeira and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-22 with Architecture categories.
Le Corbusier is well-known for his architectural accomplishments, which have been extensively discussed in literature. Towards a Public Space instead offers a unique analysis of Le Corbusier’s contributions to urban planning. The public spaces in Le Corbusier’s plans are usually considered to break with the past and to have nothing whatsoever in common with the public spaces created before modernism. This view is fostered by both the innovative character of his proposals and by the proliferation in his manifestos of watchwords that mask any evocation of the past, like l’esprit nouveau ("new spirit") and l’architecture de demain ("architecture of tomorrow"). However, if we manage to rid ourselves of certain preconceived ideas, which underpin a somewhat less-than-objective idea of modernity, we find that Le Corbusier's public spaces not only didn't break with the historical past in any abrupt way but actually testified to the continuity of human creation over time. Aimed at academics and students in architecture, architectural history and urban planning, this book fills a gap in the systematic analysis of Le Corbusier’s city scale plans and, specifically, Corbusian public spaces following the Second World War.
The Statesman S Year Book
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Author : J. Scott-Keltie
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-12-28
The Statesman S Year Book written by J. Scott-Keltie and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-28 with Political Science categories.
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Ticks A Monograph Of The Ixodoidea
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Author : George Henry Falkiner Nuttall
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date :
Ticks A Monograph Of The Ixodoidea written by George Henry Falkiner Nuttall and has been published by CUP Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Contemporary Plays
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Author : Thomas H. Dickinson
language : en
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 2009-12-01
Contemporary Plays written by Thomas H. Dickinson and has been published by Wildside Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-01 with Drama categories.
"Contemporary Plays" features 16 plays by various dramatists, selected and edited by Thomas H. Dickinson and Jack R. Crawford. Facsimile reprint of the 1905 edition.
History Of San Jose Quakers West Coast Friends
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Author : Thomas M. King
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2012-10-12
History Of San Jose Quakers West Coast Friends written by Thomas M. King and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-12 with History categories.
History of San Jose Quakers, West Coast Friends West Coast Quakers (1846-1930s)
