The Architect And His Wife
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The Architect And His Wife
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Author : Jane Ridley
language : en
Publisher: Random House UK
Release Date : 2002
The Architect And His Wife written by Jane Ridley and has been published by Random House UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Architecture categories.
"This is a full biography of a witty, complex personality, a man who had little formal education, who loved jokes and hated growing up. It is also a portrait of an extraordinary marriage. His wife, Emily, fell in love with Krishnamurti, 21 years her junior and believed to be the reincarnation of a god, and she thereafter spent her time and her husband's money promoting Theosophy, a Hindu-inspired cult. Lutyens's failure to find a common language with Emily possibly drove him to achieve the remarkable communication through the language of architecture which characterises his best work."--BOOK JACKET.
Edwin Lutyens
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Author : Jane Ridley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Edwin Lutyens written by Jane Ridley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Architecture categories.
The work of Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) includes the Cenotaph in Whitehall, much of Imperial New Delhi and especially his masterpiece, Viceroy's House (now Rashtrapati Bhavan), Queen Mary's dolls' house and Hampstead Garden Suburb. But his greatest heritage is the traditional Edwardian country house, an architectural style he made his own, using local materials and often working with Gertrude Jekyll who planted the gardens for his family homes. This is a full biography of a witty, complex personality, a man who had little formal education, who loved jokes and hated growing up. It is also a portrait of an extraordinary marriage. His wife, Emily, fell in love with Krishnamurti, 21 years her junior and believed to be the reincarnation of a god, and she thereafter spent her time and her husband's money promoting Theosophy, a Hindu-inspired cult. Lutyens's failure to find a common language with Emily possibly drove him to achieve the remarkable communication through the language of architecture which characterises his best work.
When Eero Met His Match
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Author : Eva Hagberg
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2022-09-13
When Eero Met His Match written by Eva Hagberg and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-13 with Architecture categories.
A uniquely personal biographical account of Louchheim’s life and work that takes readers inside the rarified world of architecture media Aline B. Louchheim (1914–1972) was an art critic on assignment for the New York Times in 1953 when she first met the Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen. She would become his wife and the driving force behind his rise to critical prominence. When Eero Met His Match draws on the couple’s personal correspondence to reconstruct the early days of their thrilling courtship and traces Louchheim’s gradual takeover of Saarinen’s public narrative in the 1950s, the decade when his career soared to unprecedented heights. Drawing on her own experiences as an architecture journalist on the receiving end of press pitches and then as a secret publicist for high-end architects, Eva Hagberg paints an unforgettable portrait of Louchheim while revealing the inner workings of a media world that has always relied on secrecy, friendship, and the exchange of favors. She describes how Louchheim codified the practices of architectural publicity that have become widely adopted today, and shows how, without Louchheim as his wife and publicist, Saarinen’s work would not have been nearly as well known. Providing a new understanding of postwar architectural history in the United States, When Eero Met His Match is both a poignant love story and a superb biographical study that challenges us to reconsider the relationship between fame and media representation, and the ways the narratives of others can become our own.
The Letters Of Edwin Lutyens To His Wife Lady Emily
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Author : Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 1985
The Letters Of Edwin Lutyens To His Wife Lady Emily written by Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Architects categories.
The Architect Of Desire
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Author : Suzannah Lessard
language : en
Publisher: Delta
Release Date : 2013-01-23
The Architect Of Desire written by Suzannah Lessard and has been published by Delta this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The story of Stanford White--his scandalous affair with the 16-year-old actress Evelyn Nesbit, his murder in 1906 by her husband, the millionaire Harry K. Thaw, and the hailstorm of publicity that surrounded "the trial of the century"--has proven irresistable to generations of novelists, historians, and biographers. The premier neoclassical architect of his day, White's legacy to the world were such masterpieces as New York's original Madison Square Garden, the Washington Square Arch, and the Players, Metropolitan, and Colony clubs. He was also responsible for the palaces of such clients as the Whitneys, Vanderbilts, and Pulitzers, the robber barons of the Gilded Age whose power and dominance shaped the nation in its heady ascent at the turn of the century. As the century rolled on, however, the story of Stanford White and Evelyn Nesbit came to be viewed as glamorous and romantic, the darker narrative of White's out-of-control sexual compulsion obscured by time. Indeed, White's wife Bessie and his son Larry remained adamantly silent about the matter for the duration of their lives, a silence that reverberated through the next four generations of their extended family. Suzannah Lessard is the eldest of Stanford White's great grandchildren. It was only in her 30's that she began to sense the parallels between the silence about her great-grandfather's life and the silence about her own perilous experience as a little girl in her own home. Thus she became drawn to the remarkable history of her family in order to uncover its hidden truths, and in so doing to liberate herself from its enclosure at last. The result is a multi-layered memoir of astonishing elegance and power, one that, like a great building, is illumined room by room, chapter by chapter, until the whole is clearly seen.
Deadly Triangle
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Author : Susan Goldenberg
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2022-10-11
Deadly Triangle written by Susan Goldenberg and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-11 with True Crime categories.
Glamorous young wife Alma Rattenbury takes her chauffeur as a lover and their scandalous relationship leads to a murder most foul. The 1935 murder of architect Francis Mawson Rattenbury, famous for his design of the iconic Parliament Buildings and Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia, and the arrest and lurid trial of his 30-years-younger second wife, Alma, and the family chauffeur, George Percy Stoner, her lover, riveted people. Francis and Alma had moved to Bournemouth, England, after the City of Victoria had ostracized them for their scandalous, flagrant affair while Francis was married to his first wife. Their life in Bournemouth was tangled. Francis became an impotent lush. Deprived of sexual gratification, Alma seduced George, previously a virgin who was half her age. They conducted their affair in her upstairs bedroom with her and Francis’s six-year-old son in a nearby bed, “sleeping,” she said, and the near-deaf Francis in his armchair downstairs in a drunken stupor. The lovers were tried together for Francis’s murder at the Old Bailey Criminal Court in London, resulting in intense public interest and massive, frenzied media coverage. The trial became one of the 20th century’s most sensational cases, sparking widespread debate over sexual mores and social strata distinctions.
You Say To Brick
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Author : Wendy Lesser
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2017-03-14
You Say To Brick written by Wendy Lesser and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Born in Estonia 1901 and brought to America in 1906, the architect Louis Kahn grew up in poverty in Philadelphia. By the time of his mysterious death in 1974, he was widely recognized as one of the greatest architects of his era. Yet this enormous reputation was based on only a handful of masterpieces, all built during the last fifteen years of his life. Wendy Lesser’s You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn is a major exploration of the architect’s life and work. Kahn, perhaps more than any other twentieth-century American architect, was a “public” architect. Rather than focusing on corporate commissions, he devoted himself to designing research facilities, government centers, museums, libraries, and other structures that would serve the public good. But this warm, captivating person, beloved by students and admired by colleagues, was also a secretive man hiding under a series of masks. Kahn himself, however, is not the only complex subject that comes vividly to life in these pages. His signature achievements—like the Salk Institute in La Jolla, the National Assembly Building of Bangladesh, and the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad—can at first seem as enigmatic and beguiling as the man who designed them. In attempts to describe these structures, we are often forced to speak in contradictions and paradoxes: structures that seem at once unmistakably modern and ancient; enormous built spaces that offer a sense of intimate containment; designs in which light itself seems tangible, a raw material as tactile as travertine or Kahn’s beloved concrete. This is where Lesser’s talents as one of our most original and gifted cultural critics come into play. Interspersed throughout her account of Kahn’s life and career are exhilarating “in situ” descriptions of what it feels like to move through his built structures. Drawing on extensive original research, lengthy interviews with his children, his colleagues, and his students, and travel to the far-flung sites of his career-defining buildings, Lesser has written a landmark biography of this elusive genius, revealing the mind behind some of the twentieth century’s most celebrated architecture.
The Lego Architect
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Author : Tom Alphin
language : en
Publisher: No Starch Press
Release Date : 2015-09-01
The Lego Architect written by Tom Alphin and has been published by No Starch Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-01 with Crafts & Hobbies categories.
Travel through the history of architecture in The LEGO Architect. You’ll learn about styles like Art Deco, Modernism, and High-Tech, and find inspiration in galleries of LEGO models. Then take your turn building 12 models in a variety of styles. Snap together some bricks and learn architecture the fun way!
Norman F Carver Jr Architect Of Form And Space
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Author : Tim Hills
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-12-20
Norman F Carver Jr Architect Of Form And Space written by Tim Hills and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-20 with categories.
This book follows architect Norman F. Carver Jr.'s design career from its beginnings spent digging the basement to a Frank Lloyd Wright house to studying architecture at Yale in the early 1950s and setting up a sucessful practice in Kalamazoo, MI. Carver designed over 140 homes, winning three consecutive Architectural Record House of the Year Awards and a Silver Medal from the Architectural League of New York. This book includes 120 of these projects over 300 pages packed with photographs, sketches, technical drawings and text. An accomplished writer and photographer, Carver founded Perspecta: The Yale Architectural Journal with his wife and went on to publish eight books on vernacular architecture from around the world. His first book 'Form and Space in Japanese Architecture' is one of the most influential books on Japanese architecture ever. Featuring Carver's own superb original photographs, plans and sketches, and supplemented with new images, this book acts as a reference for his built works. Several houses have been lost to redevelopment in recent years, including the one pictured here, and many others are at risk. This book will appeal to fans of mid century modern architecture, beautiful photography and amusing anecdotes from a life of adventure.
Allan Wexler
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Author : Allan Wexler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-01
Allan Wexler written by Allan Wexler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01 with categories.
This book features projects, developed during the artist Allan Wexler's forty-five-year career, which mediate the gap between fine and applied art using the mediums of architecture, sculpture, photography, painting, and drawing. Wexler's production can be broadly described as tactile poetry composed by re-framing the ordinary with the intention of sustaining a narrative about landscape, nature, and the built environment that highlights the intriguing and surprising characteristics latent in the elements and rituals that pervade daily life. His work demonstrates a commitment to re-evaluating basic assumptions about our relationship to the built and natural environments. Organized thematically across four categories--abstraction, landscape, private space, and public places--this publication is a richly illustrated cross section of Wexler's multi-scale, multi-media work, featuring his own writings, narratives, and reflections.
