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Spanning the ages and the globe, Spiro Kostof explores the city as a repository of cultural meaning and an embodiment of the community it shelters. Widely used by both architects and students of architecture, The City Shaped won the AIAs prestigious book award in Architecture and Urbanism. Includes hundreds of photos and drawings that illustrate Professor Kostof.
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A well-written foray into urban formation.......2006-10-10
Spiro Kostof's book is a fantastic and intelligent foray into urban form. What I found most appealing about the book was his approach in grappling with the WHY of things; in describing how certain urban forms have come to pass, he offers the requisite determined factors as any architect of the City ought to do and then manages the neat trick of gracefully acknowledging that these factors do not necessarily lead to a single outcome. But he is intrepid in his analysis and his approach. Beginners may find this book difficult because it does assume a basic understanding of cities and city planning; however, ambitious readers should give it a try. Mr. Kostof's cultural and historical references and his non-linear style are extremely appealing and intriguing, so much so that I will continue on to "The City Assembled", the companion piece, with great eagerness.
excelent.......2005-08-20
este livro possui indicacoes excelentes para um pesquisador da forma urbana e da historia da cidade trilhar seus conhecimentos.
pesquisa seria e escrita magnifica.
boa escolha.
A classic.......2005-05-04
Well written, consistently interesting and structured around the challenges of topography and the urban form demands invoked by market needs, political architectures and cultural expectations through history, this beautifully illustrated book delivers the promise of its title and a lot more.
Because the author, Spiro Kostof, organized his book by patterns and topological relationships, the text compresses history and geographies into a comparative perspective. This presents a disadvantage to the reader if he/she is interested in only one time, one culture or even just one architectural movement.
On the other hand, the comparative perspective lends authority to Kostof's overarching theoretical approach of connecting urban forms to content and how those relationships persist across the spectrum of the human experience. A must for any architect's or planner's library.
a guidebook of magnificent ideas on city.......2001-02-24
Perhapes part of Kostof's category for urban patterns( as organic, grids, grand manner....) is arguable, but his wonderful ananlyses for each individual sample lead us into deeper understanding of urban patterns and social meanings behind. Many cities familiar to most of us (Siena, Paris, New Dehli....) appear refreshingly unfamiliar in his book.
A Bible for an Urban Designer.......1999-12-15
Probably the most comprehensive guide to the thoughts, theories and practical aspects of designing a city. Buy it and weep for your boring grid plan cities....
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Designers know that color is an extremely vital part of any design project and not a subject to be taken lightly. For better or for worse, it affects moods and elicits reactions.
Color Design Workbook invites readers to explore color through the language of professionals. As part of the Workbook series, this book aims to present readers with the fundamentals of graphic design. It supplies tips regarding how to talk to clients about color and using color in presentations. Background information on color such as certain cultural meanings is also included. Color Design Workbook breaks down color theory into straightforward terms, eliminating unintelligible jargon and showcases the work of top designers and the brilliant and inspiring use of color in their design work.
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An excellent place to start!.......2007-09-04
In design and illustration it can often be all to easy to overlook the important basics such as colour. This excellent book from Rockport takes you through the basics, to some more complex ideas and has plenty of high quality product examples. For people like me who didn't go to art college this sort of reference is a must.
Oh my Colors!.......2007-06-07
Ver good book on color design. Has many useful examples as well as intersting ways to use them. Also good for beginners to introduce them to color without overwheling them. Would recommend to novice-intermediate designers, but also a good reference for some pros.
Great book that inspires me to get to work!.......2007-02-27
I love colors... probably too much... but I always seem to pick the same color palette when I'm designing things, and can't seem to stray to far from them, so I needed this book. It's fantastic. It shows color palettes that have been put to work in real-world settings. It also has nice explanations on color theories and the meanings of colors. The book is well organized and detailed-- I haven't found an AdamsMorioka book that I didn't like. Great job! PS I got my book from an amazon subsidiary-- it was a used book from warehouse_deals for a smashing $17.08 + nominal shipping. You'd never guess that this book had ever been used. I ordered two other books from warehouse_deals, too... if you can snag a book from them at such a great price, you won't regret it. Their shipping is as quick as amazon's standard shipping. :)
A nice overview.......2006-11-11
This book offers a great overview of color w/ practical uses in design. It covers consisely and clearly basic color concepts,theory, color meaning, and other useful advice and knowledge. It offers practical ways of looking at color through graphic design w/ case studies and showing lots of different work. The layout is fun, colorful and organized. This book should be recommeded on any design students reading list
Colorful.......2006-03-27
I have started reading this book, so be warned.
My initial reaction is that it is a very good survey of color, the author(s) do a good enough job introducing color.
What I disagree with is their recommendation for color systems, but that's a personal opinion. As more and more people use the computer and (Adobe) software for color correction, I would tend towards the rbg + cmy color wheel.
Everything else I read is, like I said, a good introduction.
Book Description
Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color is a masterwork in twentieth-century art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this timeless book presents Albers’s unique ideas of color experimentation in a way that is valuable to specialists as well as to a larger audience.
Originally published by Yale University Press in 1963 as a limited silkscreen edition with 150 color plates, Interaction of Color first appeared in paperback in 1971, featuring ten representative color studies chosen by Albers. The paperback has remained in print ever since and is one of the most influential resources on color for countless readers.
This new paperback edition presents a significantly expanded selection of more than thirty color studies alongside Albers’s original unabridged text, demonstrating such principles as color relativity, intensity, and temperature; vibrating and vanishing boundaries; and the illusions of transparency and reversed grounds. Now available in a larger format and with enhanced production values, this expanded edition celebrates the unique authority of Albers’s contribution to color theory and brings the artist’s iconic study to an eager new generation of readers.
Customer Reviews:
For more color plates..............2007-05-03
Previous reviews have bemoaned a lack of color plates. I just wanted to clarify that the 2006 Revised & Expanded edition has many more than the 8 or 10 mentioned by other reviewers. In the version I purchased (2006), the back half, approx., of the book is devoted to color plates that refer back to the chapters where particular principles are discussed. The color plates are on the right leaf, and an explanation of said plate is on the left. In the margin of the left, a reference back to the chapter/section in the book is made so that further reading on each principle is easy to locate. This is perhaps a little more awkward than having the plates sprinkled within the chapter/sections themselves, but for the cost of the book, this is an entirely acceptable method of sharing both written information and visual reinforcement. I counted more than 35 plates in the book.
Interaction of Color: Revised and Expanded Edition.......2007-04-07
I found this book boring and hard to follow. I would never recommend this book and only purchased it becuase it was required for a class I was taking. Other people in class really liked this book, but I hated it. I had a hard time getting through it and found it to be as dry as walking through the desert.
Minetta Minnick
interaction of color by josef albers.......2006-08-31
excellent revised/expanded edition of the classic albers theory/anti-theory of color. the classic that most art schools continue to base their color courses on, this edition has more reproductions from the original collectors hand silkscreened edition and is nearly twice the number of pages.
Classic approach to color.......2006-03-22
Albers is a color genius, and although I personally incorporate several color theorists into my decision making in color or color theory practices. Albers has an easy approach to understanding color.
Almost worthless without the original color plates.......2005-02-08
As another reviewer states the original had 150 color plates this version has only 8 in mine. The visual phenomena are so complex that without the plates you can't possibly accurately understand what the book is talking about. Sure you could make you own examples, but if you did, you would NOT be sure, given the complex examples, that you understood what the author was talking about. Instead you will have a false understanding or incomplete understanding that will make you look foolish. The publisher is cashing in on the author's previous great work without really republishing it. This is the lowest I've ever rated a book.
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Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852) was a German educator who introduced the concept of kindergarten. This book is a collection of fifteen essays, originally published in German in 1861, on the value of different stages of a child's play.
Froebel found an educational value in every phase of the child's play, and in every object that engages its attention. Froebel finds all that the child does significant and of educational importance. In fact, he is the great pioneer and founder of child study as well as of the pedagogic theory of intellectual values.
This book, originally published in 1908, was translated and annotated by Emilie Michaelis, Head Mistress of the Croydon Kindergarten and Preparatory School, and H. Keatley Moore, Examiner in Music to the Froebel Society, and Vice-Chairman of the Croydon Kindergarten Company.
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I was left to the care of the servants; but they profiting by my fathers absorption in his work- left me- fortunately for me- to my brothers; who were somewhat older than myself.\' (Excerpt from Chapter 1)
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I was left to the care of the servants; but they profiting by my fathers absorption in his work- left me- fortunately for me- to my brothers; who were somewhat older than myself.\' (Excerpt from Chapter 1)
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Friedrich Froebel
Elbert Hubbard , and
Fra Elbert Hubbard
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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THIS 32 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great: Teachers, by Elbert Hubbard. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 076610396X.
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Herbart and Froebel: An Attempt at Synthesis
Percival Richard Cole
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Reminiscences Of Friedrich Froebel
Bertha von Marenholz-Bulow
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A most delightful work: one that possesses all the absorbing interest of a first-class German romance, while it presents pencil sketches and reminiscences connected with the distinguished author of the kindergarten system that most beautifully illustrate the honesty, simplicity, and earnestness of his lovely character, which so admirably combined the sterner elements of indomitable perseverance with the tender, loving nature of a child. The kindergarten has been adopted by the civilized world, and the name of Froebel has become immortal. Attached to these 'Reminiscences' is a sketch of the life of Froebel, by Emily Shirreff, president of the Froebel Society of London.
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Nobby Stiles
Nobby Stiles
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Soccer my battlefield;
Nobby Stiles
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The World Cup Who's Who
T. Matthews
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Football Heroes
Stiles, Gascoigne, Wilson, Moore, Robson, Shearer, Ferguson, Hurst, Stanley, Nobby, Paul, Bob, Brian, Bobby, Alan, Alex, Geoff Matthews
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After The Ball
Nobby Stiles
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NOBBY'S NUTS . . . about football and north Manchester!.......2006-12-24
Take a cracking good tale of Association Football played at the highest level in the UK and abroad; add to it a veritable alphabet soup of Old Trafford anecdotes featuring every player of note who's ever worn the Manchester United strip from 1950 to the present day; stir in England caps galore and a World Cup winner's medal for good measure; sprinkle with a top player's personal take on umpteen contentious issues; and serve the dish up in renowned football stadia worldwide. And what have you got? You've got AFTER THE BALL, that's what, the autobiography of Nobby Stiles, ex-Man U and England.
Burp! my compliments to the chef!
There's no way you can go wrong with a story like this, is there? And Nobby Stiles doesn't, believe me. Okay, maybe the overly squeamish will blanch at some of the more colourful language. But Nobby Stiles does us proud; he really does. Himself a natural raconteur, he has gone to the trouble and expense of bringing a prizewinning journalist, James Lawton of 'The Independent' newspaper, on to the field of play as his ghostwriter. So, AFTER THE BALL is something very much out of the ordinary: a measured and entertaining autobiography by a world-class sportsman, as informative as it is articulate. And the book is enjoyable simply as local history.
No, you don't need to be a football fan to read this book. Because a good 50% of the narrative deals with the district of Collyhurst in north Manchester, where Nobby Stiles was born and brought up; with the family undertaking business that put bread on the table, and occasionally didn't; with Nobby's schooling and days as an altar server at St Patrick's, Livesey Street. Subsequently, we find Nobby expressing his gratitude to his old teacher, John Mulligan, for the care he extended to him; to his brother Charles for looking after his best professional interests by barring him from the fleshpots of Newton Heath; and to his father, Charlie, for contriving, despite financial blandishments that must surely have been tempting to a working-class family, to secure him a football placement that, though initially badly-paid, would prove to be in the lad's own best interests in the long run.
True, Red Bank never was to my knowledge called "the" Red Bank. A small point. And Canon Earley's surname goes short of that second "e". Similarly, I seem to recall Woodwork was called Manual at school, not "The" Manual, though I may be mistaken about this. However, the Cassidy Cup was not named after Lawrence Cassidy (my dad's cousin, as it happens), but after the Cassidy family, long-time licensees of the Kings Arms, Collyhurst (as was). And, though I commend Nobby Stiles' words of praise for John Mulligan, the teacher he describes as his first football coach. I do positively refute an accompanying suggestion that there are no good teachers of his sort left.
So, pardon me, while I nail Nobby Stiles with a sliding tackle, please do!
In one of the 76 photographs with which this book is generously provided 32 boys are seen posing in St Patrick's school yard alongside their headteacher, Mr J D Ridley. Beneath this snap there is another one which shows a squad of 13 footballers with the shield they have brought back to St Patrick's school. And what I want to know is this - what have the other 19 boys been doing while the footballers who won this shield have been having the time of their lives playing football? The question is rhetorical, of course. Because experience tells me that the other 19 boys - hey, let's have it right - the majority of the boys haven't been doing very much of anything at all. Worse still, I suspect that a good proportion of the educational budget which was provided for the missing 19 boys has actually been used to subsidise the time of their lives that Nobby Stiles and his 12 footballing pals have been having. Not that the squad of 13 boys realises any of this; and neither do their teachers. But my point is that any class teacher would realise this nowadays and every class teacher will nowadays insist that, if sport is on the agenda, then it had better be on the agenda for everyone in the school - boys and girls too. Otherwise, you can bet your boots that some awkward cuss like me is gonna cry: `Foul!'
But enough of such quibbles! Nobby Stiles just hasn't thought it through, and I have. Because once upon a time it was my job to think such things through. And it was - be it noted - the same Mr J D Ridley who taught me to think such things through when, 15 years after he was photographed alongside Nobby Stiles, he was my headteacher too, and I his deputy, though in another school, where Joe Ridley no longer had need of that stern, magisterial persona he had felt it necessary to adopt for professional survival on the mean streets of Collyhurst. I only wish Nobby Stiles might have had occasion to witness this apparent transformation in Mr Ridley. (N.B. apparent transformation!) Because the Joe Ridley I knew, and was privileged to work under during the early 1970s was, if truth be told, a scholar and a Christian gentleman . . .
. . . As is Nobby Stiles, it would seem. Because, included amongst the aforementioned 76 photographs you'll find a photograph that, to me at any rate, speaks volumes about a time and place where boys (even a boy born during a German air raid on Manchester) would be given the German Christian name Norbert. This wasn't because they were German (they were of Irish extraction, if anything), but because Collyhurst in north Manchester spreads, not just lengthways and northwards along the A664, but widthways and eastwards too, until it meets Oldham Road (the A62) and the parish of the German Norbertine order, Corpus Christi, Miles Platting, which parish is, of course, the great rival of St Patrick's, Collyhurst, with regard to the influence it has had, and continues to have, upon so many Mancunian lives.
Hence Nobby "Norbert" Stiles - and hence too, perhaps, Nobby Stiles' inclusion, as I say, of a most unusual photograph to appear within the autobiography of a world-class English sportsman at the beginning of the third Millennium AD. The photograph to which I refer shows Nobby Stiles, 40 years younger than he is today, and (Ooh, er!) thankfully unmindful of a sliding tackle this escaped teacher will one day presume to practise upon him in print. There is a footnote, too, and it must serve here as Nobby's final word on the subject:
"Walking to church," it says, "at 7 a.m. on the morning of the World Cup final."
I know exactly where you're coming from, our kid. My grandmother's family lived on Slater Street, Miles Platting; and, though I have never in my life set foot on Slater Street, Miles Platting, a part of me is living there still.
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