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Architecture, Domestic Italy Veneto History 16th century Classicism in architecture Italy Veneto Cooks Cooks Biography Dictators Dictators Biography Landscape architects United States Biography Landscape architecture United States History 19th century Olmsted, Frederick Law 1822-1903 Palladio, Andrea 1508-1580 Criticism and interpretationRybczynski, Witold.
Summary: "Before Andrea Palladio began designing his simple, gracious, perfectly proportioned villas, architectural genius was reserved for temples and palaces. Palladio elevated the architecture of the private house into an art form, and he not only designed and built, he wrote. His late-sixteenth-century architectural treatises were read and studied by great thinkers as diverse as Thomas Jefferson and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720 RYBRybczynski, Witold.
Summary: "In a collaboration between writer and subject, the author of Home and City life illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted's role as a major cultural figure and a man at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history. We know Olmsted through the physical legacy of his stunning landscapes - among them, New York's Central Park, California's Stanford University campus, Boston's Back Bay Fens,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OLMSTED, FREDERICK LAW RybczynskiSzablowski, Witold
Summary: "Traveling across four continents, from the ruins of Iraq to the savannahs of Kenya, Witold Szabłowski tracked down the personal chefs of five dictators known for the oppression and massacre of their own citizens: Iraq's Saddam Hussein, Uganda's Idi Amin, Albania's Enver Hoxha, Cuba's Fidel Castro, and Cambodia's Pol Pot-and listened to their stories over sweet-and-sour soup, goat-meat pilaf,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020