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  • Louise Blanchard Bethune

    Every Woman Her Own Architect

    Series series SUNY Press Open Access
    Winner of the 2023 Arline Custer Memorial Award presented by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives ConferenceAs America's first professional female architect, Louise Blanchard Bethune broke barriers in a male-dominated profession that was emerging as a vital force in a rapidly growing nation during the Gilded Age. Yet, Bethune herself is an enigma. Due to scant information about her life and her firm ... Read more

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  • The Best of Grand Designs

    by Kevin McCloud ...
    A complete celebration of Britain’s favourite architectural show.Grand Designs is broadcast in over 130 countries and regularly gleans 5 million viewers in the UK. Its success, says Kevin, is due to 'good old-fashioned story telling; of joy and sorrow, torment and triumph, expressed tangibly in the making of a building'.To celebrate fourteen glorious years of film-making, 100 editions of Grand ... Read more

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  • The Punic Wars

    The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage from 264 BC to 146 BC. At the time, they were some of the largest wars that had ever taken place.The term Punic comes from the Latin word Punicus (or Poenicus), meaning "Carthaginian", with reference to the Carthaginians' Phoenician ancestry.The main cause of the Punic Wars was the conflicts of interest between the ... Read more

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  • Después de Rimbaud, la muerte de las artes

    Series series Pequeños Grandes Ensayos
    Los simplistas, dentro de la vanguardia francesa, más que un grupo de artistas, eran una hermandad. Como parte de sus búsquedas para conocer los límites de lo humano, compartían la fascinación por la metafísica y el gusto por sustancias venenosas, tóxicas y alucinógenas. Roger Gilbert-Lecomte fue uno de sus líderes y este libro reúne artículos y cartas en los que deja constancia de esos intereses ... Read more

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  • The Architects: Stanford White

    As colorful as the buildings he designed, Stanford White infused the architectural scene of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with his flamboyant American-Renaissance style. From private homes to public institutions and religious structures, White's inimitable imprint can be seen in buildings throughout New York and the Eastern shore. Here, in this short-form book, is White's ... Read more

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  • Delphi Complete Paintings of Georges Seurat (Illustrated)

    by Peter Russell ...
    Series Book 54 - Delphi Masters of Art
    The founder of the nineteenth century French school of Neo-Impressionism, Georges Seurat devised the technique of Pointillism, portraying the play of light with tiny brushstrokes of contrasting colours. A man of studious habits and a scientific mind, Seurat employed his original technique to create huge compositions with tiny, detached strokes of pure colour too small to be distinguished when ... Read more

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  • The Architects: Raymond Hood

    Raymond Hood came onto the American architectural scene later in life than his contemporaries, but his contributions over the span of his twelve-year career continue to evoke praise and appreciation. Hood's design of much of Rockefeller Center shines as a prime example of his creative genius. Here, in this essay by architecture critic Carter Wiseman, is Hood's story. ... Read more

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  • The Architects: Charles Bulfinch

    In the history of colonial architecture, no man made a greater imprint on the style of American homes and public buildings than the self-taught Charles Bulfinch. He introduced a grace and splendor previously unseen in edifices of the new republic. His handiwork, in the distinctive Federal style he pioneered, can still be seen today in the U.S. Capitol building and the Massachusetts State House, as ... Read more

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  • The Architects: Benjamin Henry Latrobe

    Benjamin Henry Latrobe was a man of extraordinary talents - and high standards. One of the first professional architects in the United States, British-born Latrobe made his mark on America with his insistence on function as well as form. Among his most recognizable achievements are the central portion of the U.S. Capitol, the east and west wings of the White House, and Ashland, the home of Henry ... Read more

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  • The Architects: Bernard Maybeck

    Bernard Maybeck's name may mean little to most Americans, but to Californians, his creations embody the eclectic spirit of its denizens and demonstrate a unique non-style produced by a self-professed non-architect, a man in search only "of beauty." Here, in this short-form book by Richard Reinhardt, is his remarkable story. ... Read more

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  • The Alchemy of Architecture: Memories and Insights from Ken Tate

    This is celebrated architect Ken Tate's creative memoir about his life.Beginning with his days growing up in Columbus, Mississippi where he was surrounded by beautiful Greek Revival houses, the book journeys through Ken's upbringing as a creative adolescent to his early days at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta where he started his architectural collegiate career. There Ken struggled to ... Read more

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  • The Architects: Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson's influence is evident throughout the nation he helped found - from the democratic ideals he set down in the Declaration of Independence to the expansion of America's borders through the Louisiana Purchase. But the more tangible examples of his creative genius lie in his architecture - from the halls of the University of Virginia to his home on his "little mountain," Monticello. ... Read more

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  • The Architects: Frederick Law Olmsted

    In the summer of 1857, when Frederick Law Olmsted was asked if he would be interested in the "superintendency" of Central Park, he was thirty-five and had worked as a surveyor, a bookkeeper, seaman, farmer, publisher, author of travel books, and social commentator. It was the unique combination of these skills that made him the perfect man for the job. Here, in this short-form book by National ... Read more

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  • Delphi Complete Works of Jan van Eyck (Illustrated)

    by Jan van Eyck ...
    Series Book 57 - Delphi Masters of Art
    Jan van Eyck was a fifteenth century Netherlandish painter of altarpieces, single-panel religious figures and commissioned portraits, who perfected the newly developed technique of oil painting. Panel paintings like the ‘Arnolfini Portrait’ and ‘The Ghent Altarpiece’ are celebrated for their unprecedented use of naturalism, complex iconography and geometric perspective. Although only 22 paintings ... Read more

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  • Calvin Memorial Addresses

    IntroductionThe General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States in session at Birmingham, Ala., May, 1907, received from the Executive Commission of the Alliance of Reformed Churches throughout the world holding the Presbyterian System, the following communication relative to a general observance of the 400th Anniversary of the birth of John Calvin:“The Executive Commission draws ... Read more

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  • The Architects: Richard Morris Hunt

    From the pedestal supporting the Statue of Liberty, to the façade of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to the Biltmore, the largest private home ever built in the United States, Richard Morris Hunt's designs dominated the architectural scene in the second half of the nineteenth century. Hunt, the first American to attend the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, was responsible for popularizing ... Read more

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  • The Architects: Louis Kahn

    Louis Kahn's monolithic buildings defied convention and defined an era. Like the architect himself, his structures were both complex and simplistic, expressing an underlying strength while displaying a singularly bold vision. Here, in this short-form book by award-winning author Charles L. Mee Jr., is Kahn's extraordinary story. ... Read more

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  • Da Maastricht a Lisbona: Come è cambiata la vita dell'architetto italiano

    Il libro ripercorre il processo politico, storico ed economico che dal 1992 al 2007 porta l’Europa alla firma del Trattato Maastricht e quello di Lisbona e trasforma la Comunità Europea nell’Unione Europea, tutto questo visto attraverso sguardo di un architetto che cerca di comprendere le cause del cambiamento della sua professione e prova a cercare prospettive future. ... Read more

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  • Delphi Complete Paintings of Andrea Mantegna (Illustrated)

    Series Book 56 - Delphi Masters of Art
    The most important northern Italian artist of the early Renaissance, Andrea Mantegna was a student of Roman archaeology and the son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini. A pioneering master of perspective, Mantegna used pictorial devices such as extreme foreshortening, lowering the horizon to create greater monumentality and rendering his figures as more rounded and modelled, with Donatellian naturalism. His ... Read more

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  • The Architects: Frank Lloyd Wright

    Frank Lloyd Wright captivated the world with his architecture - Fallingwater, the Guggenheim Museum, Taliesin - and his flamboyant, often tumultuous personal life added to his fame. This essay by architecture critic William Marlin paints a vivid portrait of all facets of the architectural genius. ... Read more

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  • The Architects: Henry Hobson Richardson

    Henry Hobson Richardson, the author of the style known today as Richardson Romanesque, was, as were his ambitions, persona, and physique, larger than life. Richardson's designs are unmistakable: From Sever Hall at Harvard to Trinity Church, Boston, his structures bear the inimitable imprint of his signature style. Here, in this short-form book, is his little-told story. ... Read more

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  • The Architects: Alexander Jackson Davis

    Though is name is forever linked with the many stately Gothic villas he designed, Alexander Jackson Davis was not content to align himself with just one style of architecture. From classicism to Italianate to what he dubbed the Rustic-Cottage style, Davis's designs were suitable to all Americans, from the working class to the idle rich. Long before the concept would become mainstream, Davis ... Read more

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  • Dubai Beyond The Mirage

    Discover the captivating tale of a city where tradition meets innovation, and dreams reach for the sky. In "Dubai: Beyond the Mirage," readers are invited on an extraordinary expedition through the heart of one of the world's most iconic metropolises. This meticulously crafted book unveils the secrets of Dubai, peeling away the layers of its dazzling skyline to reveal the rich tapestry of its ... Read more

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  • Chartres Cathedral, Gaudí and the Sagrada Família

    Chartres Cathedral and the Sagrada Familia are emanations of the same idea: celestial Jerusalem. There are deep similarities between the two temples, with intrinsic messages that are usually ignored. Gaudí was inspired by Chartres Cathedral to design and build the Sagrada Família. He and the Maitre de Chartes were two architects working in the same artistic and spiritual tradition, separated by ... Read more

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