Architectures: Modernism and After (New Interventions in Art History)
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    		Architectures: Modernism and After (New Interventions in Art History)

    Manufacturer: Blackwell Publishing Limited
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    Binding: Paperback
    ASIN: 0631229442

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    Architectures: Modernism and After surveys the history of the building from the advent of industrialization to the cultural imperatives of the present moment. The collection of essays brings together international art and architectural historians to consider a range of topics that have influenced the shape, profile, and aesthetics of the built environment from 1851 to the present time, showing how buildings and our responses to them are embedded in the cultural process and the ethics of production.This volume presents crucial "moments " in the history of the field when the architecture of the past is made to respond to new and changing cultural circumstances. In doing so, Architectures: Modernism and After provides a view of architectural history as part of a continuing dialogue between aesthetic criteria and social and cultural imperatives.
    Down the Garden Path: The Artist's Garden After Modernism
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      		Down the Garden Path: The Artist's Garden After Modernism
      Julian Agyeman , Brigitte Franzen , Jamaica Kincaid , Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn , Tom Finkelpearl , Ghada Amer , Mel Bochner , and Mark Dion
      Manufacturer: Queens Museum of Art
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      ASIN: 1929641060
      Release Date: 2006-01-01

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      An international array of artists including Isamu Noguchi, Jenny Holzer and Vito Acconci have been using the garden as a vehicle for commentary on social and political issues, in both public and private realms. The lush Down the Garden Path offers a critical history of their and other artists' garden work from the 1940s to the present, and verdant examples in categories including paradise; the memorial; private and public gardens; and ecologies, their alternatives and Schreber gardens. Among pieces that readers won't likely see elsewhere are Paula Hayes's Plantpack 2000, a miniature garden in a Snugli, and five newly commissioned gardens for Queens. With essays by Jamaica Kincaid among others.
      Architecture After Modernism (World of Art)
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      		 Architecture After Modernism (World of Art)
      Diane Ghirardo
      Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
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      4 out of 5 stars As Diane's Student.......2001-06-20

      I have the luxery of learning under Diane, and this book is required for one of the 3 courses she teaches. What makes Diane and her work compelling is that she is able to use history to defend and defeat modern architecture. Clear and consise, Diane's work will follow the background thoughts of many future architects.

      5 out of 5 stars terrific.......2001-05-02

      Thought provoquing and illuminating. Always analyzing architecture from the larger scope of society. Never apologetic nor reserved in her comments, the author comes out as a real person. Whether you agree or disagree with her, I prefer a book like this one than a nonjudgemental review of buildings trends and theories. Wonderfully illustrated, and very clear in most passages. I really enjoyed the analysis of public spaces.

      3 out of 5 stars Technical but interesting.......2000-06-14

      Though this was a required text for school, I find myself reading it weeks after finals. It assumes a basic knowledge of Architecture & isn't for the casual reader, but there's much good information to be had. Tends to make me want to travel to the places mentioned.
      Architecture after Richardson: Regionalism before Modernism--Longfellow, Alden, and Harlow in Boston and Pittsburgh
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        		Architecture after Richardson: Regionalism before Modernism--Longfellow, Alden, and Harlow in Boston and Pittsburgh
        Margaret Henderson Floyd
        Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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        Binding: Hardcover

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        ASIN: 0226254100

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        Most histories of American architecture after H. H. Richardson have emphasized the work of Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright in the Middle West. By examining instead the legacy of three highly successful architects who were in practice simultaneously in New England and Western Pennsylvania from 1886 into the 1920s, Margaret Henderson Floyd underscores the architectural significance of another part of the nation.

        Floyd critically' assesses the careers, works, and patronage of Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Frank Ellis Alden, and Alfred Branch Harlow. Longfellow and Alden were senior draftsmen in H. H. Richardson's office, and Harlow worked with McKim, Mead & White in New York, Newport, and Boston. After Richardson's death, the three set up their own practice with offices in Boston and Pittsburgh, and these offices eventually became two separate practices. Over the years, their commissions included scores of city and country residences for the elite of both regions as well as major institutional and business buildings such as those at Harvard and Radcliffe, the Cambridge City Hall, and Pittsburgh's Duquesne Club and Carnegie Institute.

        Placing these architects in a broader context of American architectural and landscape history, Floyd uncovers a strong cultural affinity between turn-of-the-century Boston and Pittsburgh. She also reveals an unsuspected link between the path of modernism from Richardson to Wright and the evolution of anti-modern imagery manifested in regionalism. Floyd thus combines her analysis of the work of Longfellow, Alden, and Harlow with a critique of mid-twentieth-century historiography to expose connections between New England regionalism, the arts and crafts movement, and such innovators as Frank Lloyd Wright and Buckminster Fuller.
        Design After Modernism: Beyond the Object
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          		Design After Modernism: Beyond the Object

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          Architecture or Techno-utopia: Politics after Modernism
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            		Architecture or Techno-utopia: Politics after Modernism
            Felicity D. Scott
            Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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            In Architecture or Techno-utopia, Felicity Scott traces an alternative genealogy of the postmodern turn in American architecture, focusing on a set of experimental practices and polemics that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Scott examines projects, conceptual work, exhibitions, publications, pedagogical initiatives, and agitprop performances that had as their premise the belief that architecture could be ethically and politically relevant. Although most of these strategies were far from the mainstream of American architectural practice, Scott suggests that their ambition--the demonstration of architecture's ongoing potential for social and political engagement--was nonetheless remarkable.

            Scott examines both the marginal and the prominent: the Marxist architectural criticism of Meyer Schapiro; the curatorial work of Arthur Drexler at New York's Museum of Modern Art; Emilio Ambasz's introduction of ideas from environmental design, European critical theory, and Italian radicalism at MoMA; the counterculture's embrace of Buckminster Fuller's domes; psychedelic and intermedia environments; the video and architectural collective Ant Farm and the politics of ecology; the early experimental practices of Rem Koolhaas; and, connecting these earlier practices to the present day, the missed opportunities for political engagement in the competition sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation for the World Trade Center site. At a time of increasing receptiveness to thinking politically about architecture and design, Architecture or Techno-utopia offers a detailed account of the ways in which the work of architects and designers can speak to the contemporary condition.
            Architectures: Modernism and After.
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              		Architectures: Modernism and After.
              Andrew Ballantyne
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              ASIN: B000UYC14E
              "All sail, no anchor": architecture after modernism.(Lengthened Shadows: IV): An article from: New Criterion
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                		"All sail, no anchor": architecture after modernism.(Lengthened Shadows: IV): An article from: New Criterion
                Michael J. Lewis
                Manufacturer: Foundation for Cultural Review
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                ASIN: B0008GBD0M
                Release Date: 2005-07-31

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                This digital document is an article from New Criterion, published by Foundation for Cultural Review on December 1, 2003. The length of the article is 7918 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: "All sail, no anchor": architecture after modernism.(Lengthened Shadows: IV)
                Author: Michael J. Lewis
                Publication: New Criterion (Magazine/Journal)
                Date: December 1, 2003
                Publisher: Foundation for Cultural Review
                Volume: 22 Issue: 4 Page: 4(13)

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                Louis Sullivan after functionalism.(architect) : An article from: New Criterion
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                  Michael J. Lewis
                  Manufacturer: Foundation for Cultural Review
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                  Release Date: 2005-07-28

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                  Title: Louis Sullivan after functionalism.(architect)
                  Author: Michael J. Lewis
                  Publication: New Criterion (Magazine/Journal)
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                  Publisher: Foundation for Cultural Review
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                  American Architecture: After Modernism.
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                    		American Architecture: After Modernism.
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                    Great New Ways to Paint on Glass
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                      		Great New Ways to Paint on Glass
                      Julia Bottrell
                      Manufacturer: Search Press
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                      Learn how to create three dimensional pictures; see how easy it is to paint frosted effects and to gild on glass; learn how to use stencilling and stamping in your designs and to paint faces on panels and pictures. Other innovative ideas include using the paints to create glorious window panels for your home and using easy ways to produce stunning mosaic designs and patterns. Clear step-by-step photographs guide you through each project and templates are provided for each design. It is amazingly simple, great fun and highly rewarding - it's the ideal way to bring colour into your life!

                      MINOR WHITE the Eye That Shapes
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                        		MINOR WHITE the Eye That Shapes
                        Peter C. Bunnell
                        Manufacturer: Bulfinch Press / Princeton University
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                        ASIN: B000JV5L6S
                        Minor White the Eye That Shapes
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                          		Minor White the Eye That Shapes
                          Peter Bunell
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                          ASIN: B000TXGP7U
                          Minor White: The Eye That Shapes
                          Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
                          • An investigative, retrospective view of Minor White
                          		 Minor White: The Eye That Shapes
                          Peter C. Bunnell
                          Manufacturer: Princeton Univ Art Mus
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                          ASIN: 0943012090

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                          5 out of 5 stars An investigative, retrospective view of Minor White.......2004-04-29

                          Minor White was one of the most important photographic artists active during the thirty years after World War II. Living during this period in San Francisco, then Rochester, and finally near Boston, he produced a singular body of imagery that assures his place in the history of twentieth-century photography. His was a pictorial achievement that helped shape a distinctly modern American photographic style that is characterized by luminous clarity, lyricsm, and grace.

                          MINOR WHITE: THE EYE THAT SHAPES is an investigative, retrospective view of Minor White. In exploring the theme that White termed "camera as a way of life," and in elaborating on the richness and diversity of his photographic endeavor, this publication presents, thirteen years after his death, an affectionate and affirmative view of the man and the artist. An effort has been made to reveal in depth the inner workings of his existence and the features of his photography that are perhaps indistinct for many people, including those familiar with MIRRORS MESSAGE MANIFESTATIONS, a complicated sequence of words and images that was White's own presentation of his life and, as has been said, was an autobiography with his own special truth. This publication is a documented and more thorough interpretation, presented in an evolutionary way, beginning with an analysis of his earliest creative endeavors through to the last. From the extensive biography, the highly introspective selections from his journal, and the discussion of his sexuality, to the lesser known photographs that White had set aside over the years, every effort has been made to bring the reader closer to the intimate reality of this man. 289 pages; black and white, and color photography. 11.5 inches by 9.5 inches.

                          Often in Error, Never in Doubt: Cartoons by Paul Szep
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                            Paul Szep
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                            Managing Information Resources in the 1990s (1990 IRMA Conference Proceedings)
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                              		Managing Information Resources in the 1990s (1990 IRMA Conference Proceedings)

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                              Real Estate Home Inspection: Mastering the Profession
                              Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
                              • Not for the beginning Inspector
                              • Solid foundation but not covering all details
                              • Forget about it
                              • The Bible of Home Inspection
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                              		 Real Estate Home Inspection: Mastering the Profession
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                              ASIN: 0793168252
                              Release Date: 2003-04-23

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                              2 out of 5 stars Not for the beginning Inspector.......2005-03-07

                              I used this book as a text to getting certified and my foot in the door to starting my own business. Thank Heavens I have a fair amount of background in many of the fields already. The author strikes me as someone who used a filing cabinet of notes and articles to assemble a book without refining the thoughts before they went to press. I was disappointed that a school would choose this text for it's students. Despite that, and the typos, some good information can be gleened from it's pages.

                              3 out of 5 stars Solid foundation but not covering all details.......2004-12-17

                              this is a good book to start with but the problem is it tried to cover everything in just 1 book. if you really want to become a professional home inspector you definitely need to read more on each individual topics (HVAC, Plumbing etc). but as a textbook for the prelicensing course of home inspector this book is ok.

                              1 out of 5 stars Forget about it.......2003-04-12

                              As mentioned by other reviewers - This book has many typos and incomplete sentences that don't make sense. The diagrams in the book are so grainy that they're almost useless. The material content of the book is not detailed and only barely scrapes the surface of the most important items. My suggestion - forget about this one!

                              5 out of 5 stars The Bible of Home Inspection.......2002-12-04

                              If your serious about a career in home inspection or your curious about how your home works, this is the book. Well thought out and full of information on the systems, components and construction of your home.

                              4 out of 5 stars Mildly Disappointed.......2000-12-26

                              When one pays for a book, one expects to receive something a little special. The subject matter is, of course, limited to a small target population, resulting in limited distribution and higher unit cost. Having said that, no matter what the cost, one does not expect to encounter typos or incomplete sentences and topics, as found in this book. On page 75, for example, the last sentence in the left column reads "Wall sectons are" and that's the end of the thought, the topic ends there! The new topic, Platform Framing, begins in the right colum of that same page. Also, some of the illustrations are not completely clean and clear, like they've been copied on the copy machine too many times. I almost expect a hardbound edition with color photos or illustrations. What justifies this book costing more than most of its competition? Yes, I'm happy to add it to my library. No, I don't consider it a good value. And, once again, typos and omissions are unforgiveable. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

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