mobi, epub |eng | 2003-02-25 | Author:Mary Beard

‘LARGER THAN I REMEMBERED, & BETTER HELD TOGETHER’ When Virginia Woolf encountered the Parthenon again in 1932, more than 25 years after her first visit, she reflected in her diary ...

epub |eng | 2015-01-28 | Author:Dodsworth, Simon & Anderson, Stephen [Dodsworth, Simon]

5.9 The golden section rectangle is relatively straightforward to construct and it can be used to define and regulate the proportions of many elements of a design. The ken A ...

epub |eng | 2016-11-21 | Author:Long, Christopher [Long, Christopher]

Figure 146 Beer House, view into the hall. Figure 147 Beer House, dining room. Figure 148 Beer House, view of the lower portion of the stair leading to the living ...

epub |eng | 2016-07-25 | Author:John North Hopkins

THE THRESHOLD OF REPUBLIC Toward the end of the period, at the end of the sixth century and into the fifth, things begin to change. The primary reason one can ...

epub |eng | 2016-03-29 | Author:Leland M. Roth

8.35. Eliel Saarinen, Tribune Tower competition entry, 1922. Saarinen’s entry in the Tribune Tower competition was felt by many architects to be superior to the design given first prize. It ...

epub |eng | 2014-04-17 | Author:Alice Sinkevitch

Illinois National Guard, Thirty-Third Division—Northwest Armory Humboldt and Kedzie Blvds. and Logan Square No part of the twenty-eight-mile boulevard system offers more pleasure than the drive from Humboldt Park to ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-27 | Author:Alexander C. Schreyer

For the first case (making the wire visible), simply model it as a thin object to make it visible in the rendering. One consideration here is that it is likely ...

epub |eng | 2014-12-05 | Author:Nathaniel Coleman [Coleman, Nathaniel]

Lefebvre’s distinction between ‘works’ and ‘products’ provides a helpful means for understanding the consequences of the repetitions that make space into product. Works achieve a status akin to works of ...

epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Nicole Bridge

Incan Roads The road system in the Inca Empire was one of the most impressive in the ancient world. There were some 25,000 miles of road, many of which were ...

epub |eng | 2009-11-09 | Author:Edward Hollis [Hollis, Edward]

The description of nature is intimately connected with its history; and the geologist, who is guided by the connection existing among the facts observed, cannot form a conception of the ...

azw3 |eng | 2012-12-03 | Author:Updike, John [Updike, John]

Iris Murdoch, too, toys with a classical model in her new book. Acastos binds together two Platonic dialogues, one of which has actually been produced in London as a short ...

epub |eng | 2012-12-03 | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

Iris Murdoch, too, toys with a classical model in her new book. Acastos binds together two Platonic dialogues, one of which has actually been produced in London as a short ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-05-10 | Author:Alain De Botton [Botton, Alain de]

2. Why do we change our minds about what we find beautiful? In 1907 a young German art historian named Wilhelm Worringer published an essay entitled ‘Abstraction and Empathy’, in ...

epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2014-11-09 | Author:Gaston Bachelard

II A phenomenologist who wants to experience the images of the function of inhabiting must not be subject to the charms of external beauty. For generally, beauty exteriorizes and disturbs ...

azw3 |eng | 2014-06-30 | Author:Koolhaas, Rem [Koolhaas, Rem]

A machine for metropolitan bachelors … Madelon Vriesendorp, Flagrant délit. How Perfect Perfection Can Be: The Creation of Rockefeller Center I get so sentimental when I see How perfect perfection ...