Tadao Ando: Light and Water

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Tadao Ando, born in Japan in 1941, trained himself as an architect, reading and traveling extensively through Africa, Europe, and the United States. In 1970 he founded Tadao Ando Architect & Associates; since then the firm has become known for buildings that express a sense of contemplation and meditation in both form and material. Many of his buildings, typically constructed from concrete, define an enclosed space in which visitors can respond to the elements of light and water. Geometrically simple yet subtly and richly articulated, Ando's works share the serenity and clarity of traditional Japanese architecture, one of Ando's ongoing preoccupations. More than thirty projects are presented, from early houses in Osaka and elsewhere in Japan to major current works, including the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Also included are the Children's Museum, Hyogo, Himeji; the Church on the Water, Hokkaido; the Church of the Light, Osaka; UNESCO meditation space, Paris; the Teatro Armani, Milan; and a private house in Chicago.

Church On the Water, Church of the Light: Tadao Ando (Architecture in Detail) (Architecture in Detail)

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Nice book for nice architecture

Church On the Water, Church of the Light: Tadao Ando (Architecture in Detail) (Architecture in Detail)
Phillip Drew
Manufacturer: Phaidon Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0714832685

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Nice book for nice architecture.......2000-04-11

This book provides a very comprehensive information regarding the two great architecture done by Tadao Ando. After reading this book you will have a through understanding about the concept and the design development of the two architecture. There are a lot of nice pictures and drawings also. It is worth to be a collectable item for every person who love architecture.

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Lives up to expectations.......2007-07-04

I began hand-dyeing fabrics for my quilting. I love the vibrant colors and have created many beautiful gradations. However, so far working with the information in my books and on-line classes I was left unable to truly predict my colors, and therefore unable to apply color theory. I bought this book hoping for that information. I got the book today, and have already read and re-read the sections that will help me in that area. I am so excited by the new information I have found here that I wrote this review now, because if her methods work as well as they appear that they will, I will be too busy dyeing to write reviews!!

WEALTH OF INFORMATION.......2007-01-12

I was privileged to see Ruth Issett at work at a stand at the Birmingham Quilt Show last year. What an amazing talented woman. I have her other book Colour on Paper. Anybody who 'plays' with dye, paints etc should have this book in their library. The book is well presented with great photos, techniques, recipes. A must for anybody involved in textiles.

My #1 Favorite!!!.......2006-04-10

I absolutely love colors!! I have a real hunger, thirst, and excitement for it--always have! This book is full of vibrant color and so are her others. I get very disappointed when I look through a book that's suppose to inspire me with color but instead I wonder: "Why did they put this out"? This artist books are BEAUTIFUL!! She did an excellent job.
You won't go wrong purchasing her books. I wish I could attend her workshops. She's that good!! I got my hands on everything I could by this author and I won't be putting them up for resale at all. They are for keeps!! Now, I'm very motivated to create.

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"As a former TV news executive and former radio station owner/manager, I can say this book is complete. Anyone going into broadcasting should read this book." Prof. Louis E. Conrad, Northeastern University.

This new edition of a classic text features important updates that reflect the enormous changes that have taken place since the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Each chapter is significantly updated and will address future concerns and applications. New broadcast and cable regulations and policies are reflected in this new edition, as well as current and future use of the Internet and World Wide Web.

This book also covers such essential topics as management theory, audience analysis, broadcast promotion and marketing, and new broadcasting regulations.

New edition, reflecting new regulations and policies since the Telecommunications Act of 1996

New coverage of the Internet and World Wide Web and their impact on broadcasting

Extensively updated to reflect the impact of the new digital technology

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10 years on from Popbot Book Four, everything has changed. Canada is now run by deepcore rapper Mo Prostate, Warhol is a revolutionary on the planet CHE, Popbot is running around, and Kitty has gone all puritan... wow, the kids are gonna love it! Popbot is now in full color!

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Diana Athill's Stet is "a beautifully written, hardheaded, and generally insightful look back at the heyday of postwar London publishing by a woman who was at its center for nearly half a century" (The Washington Times). A founding editor of the prestigious publishing house Andre Deutsch, Ltd., Athill takes us on a guided tour through the corridors of literary London, offering a keenly observed, devilishly funny, and always compassionate portrait of the glories and pitfalls of making books. Stet is a must-read for the literarily curious, who will revel in Athill's portraits of such great literary figures as Jean Rhys, V. S. Naipaul, Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, Mordecai Richler, and others. Spiced with candid observations about the type of people who make brilliant writers and ingenious publishers (and the idiosyncrasies of both), Stet is an invaluable contribution to the literature of literature, and in the words of the Sunday Telegraph, "all would-be authors and editors should have a copy." "Wryly humorous ... notable for its extraordinary lucidity...." -- The New York Times Book Review "A beguiling tonic to book business sob stories... Stet can barely contain Athill's charm and great big heart." -- Newsday "In addition to telling a good story, Athill writes profoundly about how she is affected by the books she loves." -- The Boston Globe

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A new look at the good old days of publishing.......2003-11-27

Anyone who has ever worked in newspapers or publishing will be familiar with `stet', an age-old editor's term for `let it stand', meaning disregard any and all changes.

This is an apt title for a memoir from one of London's best known and highly regarded editors, Dianna Athill, who spent 50 years massaging the words and assisting in the careers of many literary powerhouses, including V.S. Naipaul, Jean Rhys and Mordecai Richler as well as America's Norman Mailer, John Updike and John Kenneth Galbraith.

These feats are worth trumpeting but Athill, now in her 80s, chronicles her working life in an alluring, understated fashion: "All this book is, is the story of an old ex-editor who imagines that she will feel a little less dead if a few people read it."

`Stet: an editor's life' does a lot more than that. It gives writers and readers a fresh insight into the challenges of publishing as well as the trade's peaks and troughs throughout the latter half of the 20th century, before the conglomerates dominated.

Athill founded with Andre Deutsch a publishing house in the early 1950s which bore his name. Despite its small size and meagre means, the house and Athill's reputation gained a great deal of attention in England, not only for the calibre of writers they attracted, but their publishing approach. One of the most controversial incidents occurred early on when the publishing house was presented with an injunction against publishing Norman Mailer's first book, `The Naked and the Dead' because of its profane language.

Athill covers this and many other anecdotes about writers and the writing life in a rich, honest manner.

`Stet' will interest writers as well as avid readers. It gives them a new look at the old days of publishing, a time when dollars didn't rule over good literature.

-- Michael Meanwell, author of the critically-acclaimed 'The Enterprising Writer' and 'Writers on Writing'. For more book reviews and prescriptive articles for writers, visit www.enterprisingwriter.com

Wonderfully insightful!.......2003-07-17

A fascinating look into old-world publishing and life in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century. I really enjoyed all of the wonderful characters and details about the editorial process. Anthill, herself, is an engaging and enjoyable character!

The most delightful book I have read in the last year!.......2002-08-23

Reading Stet is like taking a seminar in the art and craft of editing and then being invited to tea with the professor afterward. While reading it, I remembered that the relationships most responsible for shaping my professional life were those I enjoyed with professors who made themselves available outside of the classroom or office. I was particularly lucky over the course of college and graduate school to enjoy the company of three wise, interesting, experienced scholars who had spent what amounted to a whole lifetime in the "real world" before beginning their academic careers. That Athill's finely crafted memoir reminded me of my debt to Dr. A-, Mr. R-, and Mrs. S- is the highest recommendation I can give.

Consider this gem:

"[A]n editor must never expect thanks (sometimes they come, but them must always be seen as a bonus). We must always remember that we are only midwives - if we want praise for progeny we must give birth to our own."

Or this (she is writing about the shrinking population of critical readers):

"Of course a lot of them still read; but progressively a smaller lot, and fewer and fewer can be bothered to dig into a book that offers any resistance. Although these people may seem stupid to us, they are no stupider than we are: they just enjoy different things."

Whether you edit church bulletin or your city's daily, whether you answer phones at a small press in the hopes of moving up or you cull gems from the slush pile, don't miss Athill's attempt to prevent her experience from being erased with her passing.

Priceless.......2002-03-17

Writing at a very young 83, Diana Athill says of her memoir, Stet, "Why am I going to write it? Not because I want to provide a history of British publishing in the second half of the twentieth century, but because I shall not be alive for much longer, and when I am gone all the experiences stored in my head will be gone too - they will be deleted with one swipe of the great eraser, and something in me squeaks 'Oh no - let at least some of it be rescued!' It seems to be an instinctive twitch rather than a rational intention, but no less compelling for that. By a long-established printer's convention, a copy editor wanting to rescue a deletion puts a row of dots under it and writes 'Stet' (let it stand) in the margin. This book is an attempt to 'Stet' some part of my experience in its original form...."

And if it hadn't been for that "instinct," some of the best published works of our time might never have seen the light of day. Athill spent 50 years in publishing, most of them at London's Andre Deutsch Limited, working with the likes of Jean Rhys, Norman Mailer, George Orwell, V.S. Naipaul, Jack Kerouac and Peggy Guggenheim.

She has some great stories; among them, the plight Orwell faced in seeking a publisher for Animal Farm, and Mailer in the same situation due to the excessive use of profanity in his manuscript of The Naked and the Dead.

And she's funny, too. Of a co-worker, she explains, "Nick edited our nonfiction - not all of it, and not fast. He was such a stickler for correctness that he often had to be mopped-up after, when his treatment of someone's prose had been over-pedantic, or when his shock at a split infinitive had diverted his attention from some error of fact."

Athill has had a long affiliation with books and reading, starting with a grandmother who "read aloud so beautifully that we never tired of listening to her," in homes with walls lined with books; while at Christmas and birthdays, "80 percent of the presents we got were books."

She invites us along as she reflects on, and romanticizes every aspect of her life, including personal relationships: "Quite early in my career the image of a glass-bottomed boat came to me as an apt one for sex; a love-making relationship with a man offered chances to peer at what went on under his surface." Careerwise, she had to endure and learn how to deal with an overly critical boss - the same one who was so flustered upon meeting the Queen Mother that he curtsied instead of bowing - while her work often presented a daunting task.

Of one such occasion, she states, "The latter book was by a man who could not write. He had clumsily and laboriously put a great many words on paper because he happened to be obsessed by his subject. No one but a hungry young publisher building a list would have waded through his typescript, but having done so I realized that he knew everything it was possible to know about a significant and extraordinary event, and that his book would be a thoroughly respectable addition to our list if only it could be made readable." Of the editing process on this project, she says, "It was like removing layers of crumpled brown paper from an awkwardly shaped parcel, and revealing the attractive present which it contained...."

Athill has a wonderful way with words. Describing an early employer, she relates, "I remember Allan Wingate's first premises rather than its first books simply because the first books were so feeble that I blush for them."

Speaking of her craft - of editing books about everything from architecture to Tahiti - Athill says, "it can teach a lot about a subject unfamiliar to you, which you might not otherwise have approached," and "One was always moving from one kind of world into another, and I loved that."

And there were other rewards. Author Gitta Sereny wrote, "Diana Athill edited Into That Darkness. She has lent it - and me - her warmth, her intelligence, her literary fluency, and a quality of involvement I had little right to expect. I am grateful that she has become my friend."

But at the same time, not all of those she edited were always grateful. When it came to the gentleman mentioned earlier - the one who "could not write", and whose manuscript Athill had entirely reworked - upon publication of his book The Times Literary Supplement published a glowing review saying, among other things, that the book was "beautifully written." Athill: "The author promptly sent me a clipping of this review, pinned to a short note. 'How nice of him,' I thought, 'he's going to say thank you!' What he said in fact was: 'You will observe the comment about the writing which confirms what I have thought all along, that none of that fuss about it was necessary.'"

Diana Athill's book is a gem, as is she.

Must read for editors.......2001-05-05

Diana Athill,in this lovely book,exhibits the qualities that surely got her through a 50-year editing career. She is wise, honest, sincere, and most importantly, sane. I read every word with relish. She never attempts to outshine the authors she writes about with such discretion. When she retires, her few words of happiness and relief after a long career are more meaningful than those who go on for pages. When she tells a writer the things that make her happy, one is happy with her, and sad for the writer so possessed with himself that he can't see her simple formula for living. Diana Athill is someone I'd like to have tea with or stroll in the park. When you can introduce yourself to a perfect stranger through the pages of a book, you are a very good writer. Her editing skills must have been superb. Read this book with tea.

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"When I read these notes for the first time, I was quite young myself and I immediately identified with this man who narrated his adventures in such a spontaneous manner . . .

"There were moments when I literally took over Granado's place on the motorbike and clung to my dad's back, journeying with him over the mountains and around the lakes . . .

"To tell you the truth, the more I read, the more I was in love with the boy my father had been . . ."- from Aleida Guevara's preface

"A journey, a number of journeys. Ernesto Guevara in search of adventure, Ernesto Guevara in search of America, Ernesto Guevara in search of Che. On this journey of journeys, solitude found solidarity, 'I' turned into 'we'."-Eduardo Galeano

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SUPER BUENO!.......2005-10-11

NO HAY NADA MAS LINDO QUE LEER ACERCA DE NUESTROS PAISES, APRENDER DE ELLOS, POR LOS OJOS DE UN JOVEN VIAJANTE COMO "CHE GUEVARA". SE LOS RECOMIENDO! LEANLO! :)

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Diarios de Motocicleta
Ernest Che Guevara
Manufacturer: Ocean, 2004
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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"Diarios de motocicleta".(Reseña de película): An article from: Proceso

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"Diarios de motocicleta".(Reseña de película): An article from: Proceso
Javier Betancourt
Manufacturer: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00096SUAM
Release Date: 2006-07-14

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This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. on October 17, 2004. The length of the article is 717 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: "Diarios de motocicleta".(Reseña de película)
Author: Javier Betancourt
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 17, 2004
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
Issue: 1459 Page: 80(2)

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Diarios de motocicleta.(Reseña de película): An article from: Chasqui

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Diarios de motocicleta.(Reseña de película): An article from: Chasqui
David William Foster
Manufacturer: Chasqui
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This digital document is an article from Chasqui, published by Chasqui on November 1, 2004. The length of the article is 2056 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Diarios de motocicleta.(Reseña de película)
Author: David William Foster
Publication: Chasqui (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 2004
Publisher: Chasqui
Volume: 33 Issue: 2 Page: 192(4)

Article Type: Reseña de película

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Dos interesantes bandas de sonido han llegado junto a dos buenos e importantes estrenos en cine del último tiempo.(Diarios de motocicleta)(La terminal)(Reseña ... audio grabación): An article from: Mensaje

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Dos interesantes bandas de sonido han llegado junto a dos buenos e importantes estrenos en cine del último tiempo.(Diarios de motocicleta)(La terminal)(Reseña ... audio grabación): An article from: Mensaje

Manufacturer: Residencia San Roberto Bellarmino
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This digital document is an article from Mensaje, published by Residencia San Roberto Bellarmino on November 1, 2004. The length of the article is 430 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Dos interesantes bandas de sonido han llegado junto a dos buenos e importantes estrenos en cine del último tiempo.(Diarios de motocicleta)(La terminal)(Reseña de audio grabación)
Publication: Mensaje (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2004
Publisher: Residencia San Roberto Bellarmino
Volume: 53 Issue: 534 Page: 48(1)

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El viaje que le cambió la vida a un juvenil Che Guevara: Diarios de motocicleta.(Reseña de película): An article from: Siempre!

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El viaje que le cambió la vida a un juvenil Che Guevara: Diarios de motocicleta.(Reseña de película): An article from: Siempre!
Mario Saavedra
Manufacturer: Edicional Siempre
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0009GPDF2
Release Date: 2005-08-01

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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Thomson Gale on November 7, 2004. The length of the article is 1180 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: El viaje que le cambió la vida a un juvenil Che Guevara: Diarios de motocicleta.(Reseña de película)
Author: Mario Saavedra
Publication: Siempre! (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 7, 2004
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 51 Issue: 2682 Page: 76(2)

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