epub |eng | 2008-05-26 | Author:Steve Vogel

Yet of all Washington’s public buildings reminiscent of the classic style, The Pentagon is least imitative; and of all the structures modern in conception, it is the least self-consciously startling. ...

epub |eng | 2016-07-30 | Author:John Ruskin [Ruskin, John]

§ XXVII. Only observe, in this matter, that a greater degree of realization is often allowed, for the sake of color, than would be right without it. For there is ...

epub |eng | | Author:Nervi, Pier; Chiorino, Cristiana; Nervi, Elisabetta

CHAPTER 4 The Shape of Beauty HANS-CHRISTIAN SCHINK AS A TRIBUTE to the relevance photography has had in the construction of Nervi's original publication, we are pleased to add to ...

epub |eng | 2014-06-14 | Author:American Institute of Architects Chicago

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 ...

azw3 |eng | 2013-03-20 | Author:Joseph Masheck [Masheck, Joseph]

the best proof of the validity of Loos’ intuition of design: to impose an image of architecture along the great commercial arteries of the metropolis an absolute, severe classicity was ...

epub |eng | 2012-03-21 | Author:Franz Schulze & Edward Windhorst

FIGURE 10.2. Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois (1951); partial elevation view looking north from the banks of the Fox River. With the Farnsworth House, Mies brought his American structural vocabulary to ...

epub |eng | 2018-08-03 | Author:Martin Filler

11 PAUL RUDOLPH A FALL FROM critical grace is not uncommon in the arts, but somehow it seems more surprising in architecture than in literature, music, or painting. Buildings tend ...

epub |eng | 2017-10-31 | Author:Texe Marrs [Marrs, Texe]

Jesuit Professor Adam Weishaupt, the ingenious deceiver who founded the Order of the Illuminati on May 1, 1776 (Mayday) and went on to foster a bloody revolutionary era in France ...

epub |eng | 2012-08-31 | Author:Diderot, Denis;

epub |eng | 2014-02-20 | Author:Owen Hatherley

Spodek and the Monument to Silesian Uprisings, Katowice Square of The Industrial Metropolis RYNEK, KATOWICE Poland is a polycentric country. Unlike, say, the UK, where London is over four times ...

epub |eng | 2016-11-29 | Author:Seligmann, Ari [Seligmann, Ari]

Fig. 3.5 Tokyo Central Telegraph building, rooftop garden. (Courtesy of NTT Facilities Inc.) The rooftop garden provided an amenity for the office workers and highlighted further building and nature relationships ...

epub |eng | 2016-11-30 | Author:Brandt, Lydia Mattice [Brandt, Lydia Mattice]

Fig. 39. Illustration of the evolution of Mount Vernon, 1938. Fig. 40. West parlor, Mount Vernon, Frances Benjamin Johnston (photographer), 1937, in American Architect and Architecture (February 1938). Although Williams ...

epub |eng | 2016-03-29 | Author:Shapiro, Danielle [Shapiro, Danielle]

An article featuring “revolutionized” broadcast equipment, including the unified RCA 5-DX transmitter (above), the U-shaped 50-D control desk (center), and the streamlined 50-D transmitter. Broadcast News, July 1939. Courtesy of ...

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 | | Author:Susie Hodge

Beaux-Arts France had been one of the first countries to create a formal system of architectural training with the founding of the Académie Royale d’Architecture in 1671. Although the academy ...