Al, Stefan
Summary: "The global boom in skyscrapers-why it's happening now, how they're made, and what they do to cities and people. We are living in a new urban age and its most tangible expression is the "supertall": megastructures that are dramatically bigger, higher, and more ambitious than any in history. In Supertall, TED Resident Stefan Al-himself an experienced architect who has worked on some of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720 ALMcMahon, Peter
Summary: In the summer of 1937, Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, rented a house on Planting Island, near the base of Cape Cod. Thus began a chapter in the history of modern architecture that has never been told _until now.The area was a hotbed of intellectual currents from New York, Boston, Cambridge and the country's top schools of architecture and design. Avant-garde homes began to appear in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolis Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720 MCMBandes, Susan J.
Summary: From 1940 to 1970 mid-Michigan had an extensive and varied legacy of modernist architecture. While this book explores buildings by renowned architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Alden B. Dow, and the Keck brothers, the text—based on archival research and oral histories—focuses more heavily on regional architects whose work was strongly influenced by international modern styles. The reader will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Arts BandesDe Botton, Alain.
Contents: The significance of architecture -- In what style shall we build? -- Talking buildings -- Ideals of home -- The virtures of buildings -- The promise of a field.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720 De BottonLurie, Alison.
Summary: Offers a meditation on architecture and how it speaks to human experience, looking at what buildings and the spaces they contain say about the people who inhabit them, as well as the effects that those spaces have on them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720 LURBeam, Alex
Summary: "In 1945, Edith Farnsworth asked the German architect Mies van der Rohe, already renowned for his avant-garde buildings, to design a weekend home for her outside of Chicago. Edith was a woman ahead of her time--unmarried, she was a distinguished medical researcher, whose discoveries put her in contention for the Nobel Prize, as well as an accomplished violinist, translator, and poet. The two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720.9773 BEAGoldberger, Paul.
Contents: Introduction -- Meaning, culture, and symbol -- Challenge and comfort -- Architecture as object -- Architecture as space -- Architecture and memory -- Buildings and time -- Buildings and the making of place -- Glossary -- A note on bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration credits -- Index.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720.1 GOLSummary: Follows designer-activist Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller to rural Bertie County, the poorest in North Carolina, where they work with local high school students to help transform both their community and their lives. Living on credit and grant money and fighting a change-resistant school board, Pilloton and Miller lead their students through a year-long, full-scale design and build project...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC IFRybczynski, Witold.
Summary: "A deep exploration of modern life that examines our cities, public places, and homes."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720 RYBChiras, Daniel D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Pub. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 690.837 CHISummary: This film tells the stories of ten influential works of architecture, the people who imagined them, and the way these landmarks ushered in innovative cultural shifts throughout our society. From American architectural stalwarts like Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, to modern revolutionaries Frank Gehry and Robert Venturi, this film examines prominent buildings designed by pioneering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2013