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Author : Elaine S. Hochman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780517110034
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Architects of Fortune written by Elaine S. Hochman and published by . This book was released on 1993-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Okrent
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101666900
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Great Fortune written by Daniel Okrent and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hugely appealing book, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, acclaimed author and journalist Daniel Okrent weaves together themes of money, politics, art, architecture, business, and society to tell the story of the majestic suite of buildings that came to dominate the heart of midtown Manhattan and with it, for a time, the heart of the world. At the center of Okrent's riveting story are four remarkable individuals: tycoon John D. Rockefeller, his ambitious son Nelson Rockefeller, real estate genius John R. Todd, and visionary skyscraper architect Raymond Hood. In the tradition of David McCullough's The Great Bridge, Ron Chernow's Titan, and Robert Caro's The Power Broker, Great Fortune is a stunning tribute to an American landmark that captures the heart and spirit of New York at its apotheosis.
Author : Paul Fortune
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0789339862
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (893 download)
Download or read book Notes on Decor, Etc. written by Paul Fortune and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interior design legend Paul Fortune opens his design portfolio and shares his inimitable worldview in this monograph-cum-memoir. Arriving in Los Angeles from London during the 1970s, Paul Fortune gradually made his way as a graphic artist, art director of music videos, and even nightclub owner. But with the renovation of his own now legendary Laurel Canyon house in 1978, Fortune's career as an interior designer was born. Fortune Design Studio, based in Los Angeles, has been operating since 1982, enjoying the patronage of discerning clients worldwide, whose ranks include Marc Jacobs, Sofia Coppola, and David Fincher. Exhibiting a distinct style widely recognized for its integration of refinement with lived-in comfort, Fortune's designs are uniquely geared toward accommodating the history and material integrity of each chosen venture. In Notes on Décor, Etc., Fortune--a natural raconteur--not only documents his favorite of these timelessly elegant projects but also his life and times as a designer, an expatriate, and an Angeleno in a one-of-a-kind chronicle that Architectural Digest, in its 2018 AD 100 list, describes as, "A tell-all monograph-cum-memoir detailing significant projects and stories from Fortune's peregrinations through the beau monde."
Author : John Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192800022
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs written by John Simpson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists recorded usages and meaning for hundreds of proverbs arranged by key word, from "Absence makes the heart grow fonder" to "Youth must be served."
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Architect written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Garry Stevens
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262692786
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (927 download)
Download or read book The Favored Circle written by Garry Stevens and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002-02-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the field of architecture written by an outsider who demystifies the mechanics of fame and fortune. The popular view of architecture focuses on individual creative geniuses, those who have designed the most "significant" works. According to Garry Stevens, however, successful architects owe their success not so much to genius as to social background and a host of other factors that have very little to do with native talent. To concentrate only on the profession of architecture is to ignore the much larger field of architecture, which structures the entire social universe of the architect and of which architects are only one part. This book critically surveys that field, exposing many myths and debunking a number of heroes in the process. Using the conceptual apparatus of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, Stevens describes the field of architecture on two levels. First, he provides a detailed account of the field as it is at any given point in time, describing the different components and their relationships. Second, he analyzes the dynamics of the field through time, from the Renaissance to the present. He discusses the system of architectural education, as well as everyday aspects such as the competition for reputation. He concludes that throughout history, the most eminent architects have been connected to each other by master-pupil and collegiate relations. These networks, which still exist, provide a mechanism for architectural influence that runs parallel to that of the university-based schools.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Architect written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Justin Beal
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262367181
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Sandfuture written by Justin Beal and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the life and work of the architect Minoru Yamasaki that leads the author to consider how (and for whom) architectural history is written. Sandfuture is a book about the life of the architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986), who remains on the margins of history despite the enormous influence of his work on American architecture and society. That Yamasaki’s most famous projects—the Pruitt-Igoe apartments in St. Louis and the original World Trade Center in New York—were both destroyed on national television, thirty years apart, makes his relative obscurity all the more remarkable. Sandfuture is also a book about an artist interrogating art and architecture’s role in culture as New York changes drastically after a decade bracketed by terrorism and natural disaster. From the central thread of Yamasaki’s life, Sandfuture spirals outward to include reflections on a wide range of subjects, from the figure of the architect in literature and film and transformations in the contemporary art market to the perils of sick buildings and the broader social and political implications of how, and for whom, cities are built. The result is at once sophisticated in its understanding of material culture and novelistic in its telling of a good story.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393037067
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The Fortune of War written by Patrick O'Brian and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aubrey and Maturin are caught in the outbreak of the War of 1812.
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Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book Architect and Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Albert C. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429831447
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book The Architect as Magician written by Albert C. Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Architect as Magician explores the connection between magic and architecture. There is a belief that a greater understanding of the meaning of magic provides insights about architecture and architects’ design processes. Architects influence the effects of nature through the making of their buildings. In an analogous condition, magicians perform rituals in an attempt to influence the forces of nature. This book argues that architects could gain much by incorporating ideas from magic into their design process. The book demonstrates through historical and current examples the important influence magic has had on the practice of architecture. The authors explain how magic helps us to understand the way we infuse architecture with meaning and how magic affects and inspires architectural creation. Aimed at architects, students, scholars and researchers, The Architect as Magician helps readers discover the ambiguous and spiritual elements in their design process.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Architectural Forum written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1290 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Architect written by and published by . This book was released on 1892-07 with total page 1290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ariyuki Kondo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317322517
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Robert and James Adam, Architects of the Age of Enlightenment written by Ariyuki Kondo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the second half of the eighteenth century British architecture moved away from the dominant school of classicism in favour of a more creative freedom of expression. At the forefront of this change were architect brothers Robert and James Adam. Kondo’s work places them within the context of eighteenth-century intellectual thought.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Michigan Architect and Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Gross
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451666217
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book House of Outrageous Fortune written by Michael Gross and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Michael Gross’s new book…packs [in] almost as many stories as there are apartments in the building. The Jackie Collins of real estate likes to map expressions of power, money and ego… Even more crammed with billionaires and their exploits than 740 Park” (Penelope Green, The New York Times). With two concierge-staffed lobbies, a walnut-lined library, a lavish screening room, a private sixty-seat restaurant offering residents room service, a health club complete with a seventy-foot swimming pool, penthouses that cost almost $100 million, and a tenant roster that’s a roll call of business page heroes and villains, Fifteen Central Park West is the most outrageously successful, insanely expensive, titanically tycoon-stuffed real estate development of the twenty-first century. In this “stunning” (CNN) and “deliciously detailed” (Booklist, starred review) New York Times bestseller, journalist Michael Gross turns his gimlet eye on the new-money wonderland that’s sprung up on the southwest rim of Central Park. Mixing an absorbing business epic with hilarious social comedy, Gross “takes another gossip-laden bite out of the upper crust” (Sam Roberts, The New York Times), which includes Denzel Washington, Sting, Norman Lear, top executives, and Russian and Chinese oligarchs, to name a few. And he recounts the legendary building’s inspired genesis, costly construction, and the flashy international lifestyle it has brought to a once benighted and socially déclassé Manhattan neighborhood. More than just an apartment building, 15CPW represents a massive paradigm shift in the lifestyle of New York’s rich and famous—and is a bellwether of the city’s changing social and financial landscape.
Author : Michael C. Kathrens
Publisher : Acanthus PressLlc
ISBN 13 : 9780926494619
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (946 download)
Download or read book American Splendor written by Michael C. Kathrens and published by Acanthus PressLlc. This book was released on 2011 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 2002, American Splendor: The Residential Architecture of Horace Trumbauer is the first and only extensive study of this master creator of the American Great House. This revised edition features three new chapters and over 50 new colour photographs.
