Shaping an American Landscape: The Art and Architecture of Charles A. Platt

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A rich portrait of a major figure in American art and architecture and his role in shaping American cultural identity.

Charles Platt: The Artist as Architect (Architectural History Foundation Book)

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Charles Platt: The Artist as Architect (Architectural History Foundation Book)
Keith Morgan
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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It was once common to discuss the work of Charles Platt (1861-1933) alongside that of McKim, Mead & White, but by the time of his death, Platt's name had already fallen out of favor under the influence of modern movement critics.

This long-overdue reevaluation of Platt's career shows that in the first decade of this century, Platt's office was one of the New York firms that dominated the general development of American architecture, and his country houses and Georgian style mansions were regarded as the best American examples of their genre. He led the American revival of the formal garden in the 1890s, and is credited with having introduced the American villa theory in his book Italian Gardens (1894). Morgan notes that Platt first achieved a reputation for his accomplished landscape paintings and etchings, and his conception of building and garden design grew out of this training rather than the formal Beaux-Arts curriculum subscribed to by most of his successful contemporaries.

The book treats Platt's work in five chapters: his study of art at the National Academy of Design in New York and in Paris where he exhibited in salons and garnered awards as a landscape painter; the impact of his work on Italian gardens; his large-scale country estates and domestic buildings, where the Italian precedents were adjusted to local conditions; his public architecture and urban commissions, which include the freer Art Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Vincent Astor estate in New York, and the campuses of the University of Illinois, the Connecticut College for Women, Deerfield Academy, and Philip's Academy in Andover.

Keith Morgan is Professor of Architecture in the American Studies Program at Boston University. Charles Platt is included in the Architectural History Foundation's American Monograph Series. Previously announced.

The Architecture of Charles A. Platt (Acanthus Press Reprint Series. 20th Century, Landmarks in Design, V. 8.)

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The Architecture of Charles A. Platt (Acanthus Press Reprint Series. 20th Century, Landmarks in Design, V. 8.)
Robert A.M. Stern
Manufacturer: Acanthus Press
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PLATT.......2006-04-11

I really love these Achathus Press books, they are just beautiful. Platt designed numerous grand mansions, particularly on the North Shore of Long Island. The text of this book is scholarly and the images are B&W and crisp. If you have any interest in grand residental architecture then I believe you will enjoy this book.

The Muses of Gwinn: Art and Nature in a Garden Designed by Warren H. Manning, Charles A. Platt & Ellen Biddle Shipman

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The Muses of Gwinn: Art and Nature in a Garden Designed by Warren H. Manning, Charles A. Platt & Ellen Biddle Shipman
Robin S. Karson
Manufacturer: Sagapress
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Monograph of the work of Charles A. Platt,

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Monograph of the work of Charles A. Platt,
Charles A Platt
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Charles A. Platt (Architecture Series--Bibliography, a 1737)

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Charles A. Platt (Architecture Series--Bibliography, a 1737)
Lamia Doumato
Manufacturer: Vance Bibliographies
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Interior Architecture The Design of Interiors of Modern American Houses

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Interior Architecture The Design of Interiors of Modern American Houses
R.W.; Platt, Charles A. Sexton
Manufacturer: Architectural Book Publishing Co.
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Ten houses designed by Charles A. Platt: Reprinted from Architecture

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Ten houses designed by Charles A. Platt: Reprinted from Architecture
Charles A Platt
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In Picturing Learning, Karen Ernst introduced teachers to her classroom's artists workshop, revealing what a valuable role the visual can play in children's literacy development. Now, with the publication of A Teacher's Sketch Journal, Ernst takes teachers one step further as she focuses on the thinking and meaning behind the pictures and the words.

This book provides a unique glimpse inside Ernst's sketch journal, in which readers can watch her teach, reflect on her observations, and see samples of her students' pictures and writing. Beginning with the understanding that children have stories to tell and to picture, she shows how to link art with reading, writing, and learning in the classroom, takes art into the writers workshop and across the curriculum, and establishes an important partnership with classroom teachers and parents.

Readers will discover how to use a picture as a springboard to writing, build a classroom community, form teacher study groups, introduce student sketch journals, take trips to museums, set up classroom and school galleries, establish routines, and organize the classroom studio. But Ernst does not provide prescriptions, she invites you to translate the ideas into your own. She also lets you in on some of her solutions to difficult questions: how to offer children choices, how to achieve a balance between writing and drawing while teaching the skills and techniques of each, and how to integrate the curriculum authentically.

Ernst believes that teachers must engage in the literacies they are teaching, collaborate with their colleagues, and create ideas for change, not merely facilitate someone else's. This book will help preservice and practicing teachers, curriculum specialists, special education professionals, researchers, and parents do the same.

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Masterpiece.......2005-01-21

The title doesn't do justice to this masterpiece on art and writing. It is so much more than the title implies and should be required reading in methods classes on art and writing. In A Teacher's Sketch Journal: Observations on Learning and Teaching, Karen Ernst makes the connection between visual art and writing, drawing on the writer's workshop method. The result is a powerful synergy that compelled me to change my philosophy of art education and classroom practice after twenty five years. I found out what my students were thinking and feeling about their art that I hadn't been able to observe from their pictures. My students have grown from mere manipulators of media to thinking and responding artists and writers. They have a better understanding of the creative process and confidently own their work. I continue to be astonished and refreshed by her approach. Karen Ernst has found the missing piece to art education. Bravo!

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Lovely photographs of geological features and processes, from the very large (Monument Valley), small (ice crystals, frost flowers), to the microscopic (polarized micrography of minerals).

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For both public and private managers, the book Optimization Methods for a Stakeholder Society is today's key to answer the problem of a sustainable development world. This world has to take into account the meaning of all stakeholders involved and has to reconcile a number of objectives, such as economic growth, employment and preservation of the ecosystem. Traditional methods, such as cost-benefit, are outmoded as they translate all these objectives into monetary costs, a materialistic approach. On the contrary, objectives have rather to stick to their own units, eventually indicators.
The author is in favor of the use of nonlinear methods in multi-objective optimization. Therefore, several nonlinear approaches are proposed, illustrated with many applications from different fields such as: privatization in the public sector, regional versus national economic policy in a country, location of a seaport, arms procurement, industrialization of a developing country, updating or replacement of old industry, pre- and post-evaluation of projects, performance management, marketing and distribution.

Optimization Methods for a Stakeholder Society: A Revolution in Economic Thinking by Multi-Objective Optimization

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Optimization Methods for a Stakeholder Society: A Revolution in Economic Thinking by Multi-Objective Optimization
Willem K. Brauers
Manufacturer: Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
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The first anthropological study of the Grameen Bank microlending program to rural poor women, focused on both economic and social processes to examine and understand grassroots microlending structure and its implications for women borrowers, societal members, bank workers and for the sustainability and growth of lending institutions.

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The Wired Tower: Perspectives on the Impact of the Internet on Higher Education brings together leading thinkers and doers to assess the new realities of the Internet in higher education. Edited by Blackboard, Inc. Chairman Matthew Pittinsky, the book ide

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Focus on Universities.......2003-11-13

I was disappointed in this book. I assumed that the author would draw on a wealth of experience as the provider of Blackboard, the most common software for e-learning. Instead, the book was mostly an apologetic for why "brick and mortar" universities are superior to e-learning, and how they can add some e-learning features to maintain their dominance in the educational realm by becoming "brick and click" schools. The book does include some helpful facts and statistics, but I had hoped to find more than that. I was seeking creative ways to improve and develop e-learning. It didn't find that. The book might be helpful for some educators who are interesting tweaking the traditional university model, but not for people who are interested in more significant change.

Networks in Higher Education!.......2003-06-23

Wired and wireless! This book discusses network technology in colleges and university. It is written for educators and decision makers. It provides a base level of technical understand and explains important concepts necessary to decision making. This text helps decision makers and educators set realistic goals for technology that will ultimately help with adoption.

Lots of Theory, Little Know How.......2003-04-13

Matthew Pittinsky has published the slightly stale presentations and speeches that educators and theorists delivered several years ago. What might have seemed like cutting edge thinking at that time is now missing the boat for the most part. Higher education is still grappling with how to deal with what has become a buyers' market for education. Faculty, who are stuck in the paradigm of a sellers' market and protected by the cloak of tenure, are the critical players in the e-learning scenario. Pittinsky hasn't found an answer to the real problem: who will hold faculty responsible for the fiscal strength and market share of higher education? As in so many instances, online learning has crystallized the issues of who teaches, who learns, and the bottom line for strong and productive higher education institutions.

The Title Could be Better.......2003-01-08

The book is one of the better ones I've read on the topic, and timely in view of the Internet's 20th anniversary and recent closures of e-learning initiatives, such as that of Fathom by Columbia. Perhaps one could quarrel with the title, particularly in light of comments in Chapter 6. "The Networked Tower" would give the title a longer shelf life.
More emphasis could be given to the difficulty in changing the culture of traditional institutions in their course delivery methods. Tenure and promotion rules don't yet value innovations in teaching with technology at most universities.
Chapter 6 on organizational structure and the CIO position could emphasize the desirability of academic credentials for holders of that position. Experience in the trenches of academic life is important both for what it teaches and for credibility with faculty being encouraged to adopt new methods. This chapter is one of the best in a fairly good book.
The book would benefit from a chapter or two giving some contrarian views to balance the optimism a bit. Perhaps that will be in a sequel volume.

So You Want to Deliver E-Learning.......2002-12-02

Pittinsky, the current chair of Blackboard, Inc.(a highly useful e-learning platform) recognizes that the Internet offers a dramatic shift from traditional education because of the global possibilities. He also warns that for institutions to join the ever-increasing distance delivery of college and technical coursework, they must know how technology will solve problems rather than complicate the educational services. Distance learning via technology requires active learners who willingly embrace the varying modes of instruction. Traditional, site-bound services may not be able to match the increasing world-wide demand for college and technical coursework. Projections for 2025 suggest that 160 million students will be seeking education. Compare that to the current 45 million people enrolled today.This book offers a heads-up approach to institutional leaders in determining whether or not Internet courses of study are feasible. I highly recommend this book for administrators and instructors as a first-read before rushing into a high/hidden cost program.

The Wired Tower: Perspectives on the Impact of the Internet on Higher Education

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The Wired Tower: Perspectives on the Impact of the Internet on Higher Education
Matthew Serbin PittinskyMatthew Pittinsky
Manufacturer: Financial Times Prentice Hall
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In a entrepreneuarial culture, a law firm is both conscience and continuity. The partners of one of the East Coast's most prestigious law firms talk about the legal culture around venture capital and entrepreneurships TH&T and Massachusett's high--tech profile areas.

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