The Architecture Traveler: A Guide to 262 Key Modern American Buildings, Revised Edition

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So many buildings....excellent.

Waste of money

A spotlight on US architecture

One of a kind

Indispensable and fascinating

The Architecture Traveler: A Guide to 262 Key Modern American Buildings, Revised Edition
Sydney LeBlanc
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Binding: Paperback

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An illustrated guidebook to the best of modern architecture for every architecture enthusiast and professional.

Architecture is the heart and soul of cities—it shows not just a place but also the spirit of the place. This portable book takes readers on a tour of over 250 American architectural treasures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It provides the practical information—addresses, phone numbers, visitor hours, maps—needed to experience them firsthand and explains why each will reward a visit. The concise accompanying descriptions offer new insights into the buildings and designers of this vital part of the American heritage. Among the new landmark buildings included are Walt Disney Concert Hall (Frank Gehry), Seattle Library (Rem Koolhaas), American Folk Art Museum (Tod Williams/Billie Tsien), Contemporary Arts Center (Zaha Hadid), Milwaukee Art Museum (Santiago Calatrava), and the "Solar Umbrella" House (Larry Scarpa/Angela Brooks). 275 black-and-white illustrations.

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So many buildings....excellent. .......2006-06-16

Solidly researched, well organized book with excellent indexes. The guide is practical and well written. I enjoyed traveling with it and reading it.

Waste of money .......2006-06-09

Architecture Traveler is a waste of money . I bought it in hopes of getting guide to great new buildings in NYC . It did not have any and the guide to buildings in NYC was aweful . Buildings not listed by City but by year !!! Give me a break .

A spotlight on US architecture.......2006-04-14

If you're planning a trip in the US, this is the most up to date architecture guide. It will show you the best and the newest.

Naturally it focuses on the major destination cities (New York, Chicago, LA, San Francisco). It also includes other hot architecture cities (Miami, Houston) and helps you make fascinating side trips to out of the way and unexpected sites - and concentrations of sites -- all over the country.

The author presents the 263 top US buildings, one building per page. If you're tight for time, it helps you narrow down your choices by clearly identifying the must-see buildings: It features 41 New York buildings, for example, 40 in LA, and so on -- and it draws a circle around the absolutely essential Frank Gehry and Frank Lloyd Wright sites.

One of a kind .......2005-12-04

I like this book because it pinpoints the top architectural sites in the US that I, as a tourist, can actually see. There is no other book like it. Maps, addresses, hours, websites, and multiple indexes you can use to plan your trip by your destination city, by region, by architect, by era, or to locate a specific building.

Indispensable and fascinating.......2005-11-14

It is often easy to visit important architectural sites just by making a quick walking tour or a short drive from your hotel ... but you have to know exactly where to look. That's the value of this classic travel guide to American architecture, now in its Sixth edition. The latest Architecture Traveler treats 263 buildings. Each page covers one building with a narrative, photos, and visitor information. In this newest edition of the guide, websites are included for many of the buildings - a real help. The Architecture Traveler itself has a website, at architecture-traveler.com. At the end of the book you'll find useful maps showing all the buildings' locations.

The author, whose work appears in The New York Times and in the shelter magazines, has a real gift for finding unexpected details and for telling the behind the scenes stories of the buildings, the architects and sometimes the owners. The buildings are presented in time sequence, so you can scan across the decades by trilling the pages against your thumb. The 13 new buildings from 2000 forward will give you a quick sense of contemporary ideas, trends and new materials and techniques in American architecture. A strikingly beautiful new solar house completed in 2004 (with a monthly electricity bill of zero) was particularly interesting to me. My only criticism is the new cover, which seems sort of bland and formal compared to past covers.

This classic guide has been translated into German and Chinese, and it is not uncommon to spot and greet other adventurous Architecture Travelers with this book in hand at the famous and - especially - at the slightly offbeat or lesser-known sites. The Architecture Traveler makes a good gift, as well.

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Attractive stained glass patterns, none of them dorky

Most attractive shades!

Northern Shades: 25 Full-Size Patterns for Stained Glass Lampshades
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Attractive stained glass patterns, none of them dorky.......2006-08-23

I'm just finishing the first lamp that I've made using a pattern from Northern Shades. Overall, I'm very pleased with the pattern and its instructions -- though I'm glad that I made my *first* lamp with a live teacher demonstrating the techniques.

That's not to say that you're on your own. While the book has only a single photo of each of the 25 lamps, the pictures are large and clear enough for you to get the details. The first part of the book explains the steps in lamp construction, with many black and white photos to demonstrate the process. It might have been daunting if that's all I had, however! (Or maybe I just prefer personal instruction.)

None of the designs are lame, and most of them are really pretty. The lamps range in size from an 8" diameter to 21". It's convenient to have the patterns in full size, too; you don't have to worry about inaccuracies creeping in from photocopies.

Most of all, however, I appreciate the clear shopping list for each lamp; each one is rated for difficulty, has technical specifications (such as all measurements and the number of pieces), and a materials list. You can walk into the glass shop knowning that you need 3.25 sq ft of dark green opal, 1/2 sq ft of light green, and a 2.5" vase cap.

My only caveat -- and it's not really the author's fault -- is that you have to pay attention to the availability of supplies. The lamp I chose called for kite-shaped bevels in a size that is no longer available. I did just fine by cutting kites from textured glass, but I confess that I stamped my foot in frustration, a few times, before I chose that alternative.

Great book, though. Recommended.

Most attractive shades!.......2000-07-30

The proportions of the shades are really beautiful. One of the best shade pattern books on the market.

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She was always right.......2007-01-02

Dorothy Thompson's second husband was Sinclair Lewis. In their lifetimes she was as famous as he was. Their marriage was not a success. They had a son, Michael. Her curiosity and energy lifted DT to the top of the heap of journalists of the pre-WW II and post-WW II era. She was a foreign correspondent and a columnist. She liked the company of men because men did interesting things. She died in Portugal visiting her grandchildren. For many years she had a farmhouse in Vermont and arranged for friends to settle in the area. Rebecca West was an epistolary confidant.

After Thompson wrote I SAW HITLER she was expelled from Berlin. There is an enormous archive of her work at Syracuse University, her alma mater. Her father, a Methodist minister, possessed generosity of spirit. Just out of college, Thompson worked for a women's suffrage organization in New York State. At age twenty-seven she went to Europe. It was 1920. She could send the American newspapers travel articles or stories about the peace in the days following WW I. In London she and her friend Barbara DePorte went to the International News Service offering to cover an upcoming conference on Zionism.

In Paris Dorothy became friends with Rose Wilder Lane. Paul Scott Mowrer of the Chicago Daily News advised her to leave Paris where there were numerous American writers to corner the market in another European city. Dorothy Thompson chose Vienna. She was guileless and frank interviewing leaders. In Hungary she met M. Fodor, the Guardian's special correspondent. She met Czech leaders Benes and Masaryk. In 1921 Dorothy Thompson became a salaried correspondent in Vienna for the Public Ledger. Politics was failing as a remedy in Austria and the surrounding countries. In 1922 Austria received a huge recovery loan. In 1923 she married Joseph Bard, a Hungarian. In 1926 Thompson met Vincent Sheean. At the salon of Eugenia Schwarzwald Dorothy got to know Arnold Schoenberg, Adolf Loos, Bertholt Brecht, Oskar Kokoschka and others. In 1925 she was transferred to Berlin. Between 1924 and 1929 the mark was stabilized. In 1927 Joseph and Dorothy were divorced.

It was known in literary society that Sinclair Lewis was an alcoholic. Dorothy was doubtful about undertaking to marry Lewis. Prior to the marriage she was in Moscow at the same time as Scott Nearing, Anna Louise Strong, and Theodore Dreiser. After being in Europe for seven years, she was suffering from a failure of nerve. Twin Farms had three hundred acres and two farmhouses. In 1928 the whole state of Vermont had the population of Jersey City. The life of the couple was not glittering. In 1930, pregnant, Dorothy Thompson knew her marriage would not be a marriage. Following a summer in Vermont, the couple rented a house in Westport from FPA.

1930 was the year of the Nobel Prize. Dorothy found that the Germany of 1931 had been transformed. She produced pieces for the Saturday Evening Post on the new Germany. She was horrified to see nationalist regression. After three years Lewis gave up on his labor novel and wrote ANN VICKERS. Dorothy and every observer underestimated the Nazis. They were banal. In 1936 Dorothy became a political columnist for the New York Herald Tribune and later for the New York Post.

The movie WOMAN OF THE YEAR was plainly modeled on Dorothy Thompson. Maxim Kopf was her third husband. He was Czech, born in Vienna, raised in Prague. The wedding took place at the Universalist Church in Barnard, Vermont. After the war Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson regarded themselves as a United Front in the Age of Lunacy. By 1948 DT thought there were too many lawyers and not enough statesmen running the country.

Pioneering Woman Journalist.......2006-03-13

If you ask the average American to name a female reporter, most will be hard-pressed to name anyone besides Dear Abby or Ann Landers. These two "Agony Aunts" were sisters and today their daughters and others write their columns. Few Americans can name a woman journalist.

The history of discrimination against women journalists goes back to colonial America. Then came Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman who wrote under the pen name of Nellie Bly. She showed that a woman journalist could do serious muckraking. Her example inspired Dorothy Thompson who was born July 9,1893 in Lancaster, New York.

Peter Kurth has written an excellent biography of this pioneering woman journalist, tracing her life from her childhood in western New York, her journalism career, and marriages and divorces. After divorcing her first husband Josef Bard, she married author Sinclair Lewis in 1928. She divorced Lewis in 1942.

In 1920, she traveled to Europe and wrote free-lance pieces for several U.S. newspapers including the Christian Science Monitor. In 1924, the Philadelphia Public Ledger appointed her their Berlin bureau chief, which made Thompson the first woman to head a major overseas news bureau.

She is notable as the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany (in 1934), and began a crusade against dictatorship and other forms of fascism. Concerning our current U.S. president, she predicted:

"No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship ... When our dictator turns up you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American. And nobody will ever say 'Heil' to him, nor will they call him 'Führer' or 'Duce'. But they will greet him with one great big, universal, democratic, sheeplike bleat of 'O.K., Chief! Fix it like you wanna, Chief! Oh Kaaaay!' "

Terrific bio of a terrific and terrible woman.......1999-08-17

I picked this book up by mistake several years ago. I thought it was a bio of Dorothy Parker. It was possibly the best mistake I ever made. Thompson is now a forgotten figure, somehow escaping the accolades heaped upon her peers.

Yet she was a fantastic and inovative woman, breaking new career paths and new ideas. Sure, she wasn't the most likeable of people. But with Thompson that's not the point.

This book has sent me on a five year quest to gather all of the information I can about her, from her book "I Saw Hitler" to collections of her essays. I've been on a tangential search for every thing relating to her I can get my hands on.

And it's all because Kurth wrote a spectacular and engaging biography.

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American Cassandra The Life of Dorothy Thompson
Peter Kurth
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American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson
Peter Thompson] Kurth
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American Cassandra. The Life of Dorothy Thompson
Peter Kurth
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American Cassandra. The Life of Dorothy Thompson.

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American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson
Peter Kurth
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American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson.
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American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson.

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The name Touraine is now meant to refer to that indefinite part of central France celebrated for its historical houses and its natural beauty. The author's aim in this enchanting work is to provide the traveller, armchair and actual, with sufficient intellectual equipment so that he may find the beautiful chateux of this region something more than coy lamentations of stone and mortar. Studied as they are in connection with the times through which they have lived, the buildings share their lives, the lives of the people who have occupied them, and the times through which they have passed.

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