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Victor Lundy

Author : Donna Kacmar
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1616897899
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Victor Lundy written by Donna Kacmar and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're looking for something new under the midcentury sun, Victor Lundy (born 1923) is a real find, an important yet underappreciated figure in the history of American architecture. Trained in both the Beaux Arts and Bauhaus traditions, he built an impressive practice ranging from small-scale residential and commercial buildings to expressive religious buildings and two preeminent institutional works: the US Tax Court Building in Washington, DC (now on the National Register of Historic Places), and the US Embassy in Sri Lanka. This first book on Lundy's life and career documents his early work in the Sarasota School of Architecture, his churches, and his government buildings. In addition to essays on his use of light and material, many of the architect's original drawings, paintings, and sketches—including those from his travels throughout Europe, the Middle East, India, and Mexico, now held at the Library of Congress—are reproduced here for the first time.

Drawn from War

Author : Richard O'Hara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781711387857
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (878 download)

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Download or read book Drawn from War written by Richard O'Hara and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sergeant Victor Lundy created 158 superb sketches which capture his experiences with the 26th Infantry Division in World War II. His days in training are well documented, as are the scenes of his embarkation and journey by convoy to Cherbourg on the coast of France. His unit was transported to the front via Red Ball Express and joined General Patton's 3rd Army as it fought for every hill and village, trying to drive the Germans from France. The exciting conclusion is a harrowing first-person narrative of the desperate battle for a tiny French village. There are few moments more consequential in combat than staring down the barrel of a Tiger Tank. Fortunately, Victor Lundy survived to tell his story.

Air Structures

Author : Pete Silver
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780678096
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Air Structures written by Pete Silver and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Air can be used in a variety of ways to make lightweight, flexible structures. It can be used to make inflatable structures, mobile structures, and temporary buildings, it can also activate movable elements and act as a means of constructing buildings that would be impossible with conventional construction methods. This book looks at every facet of the subject, examining the different types of air structure: super pressure buildings, air beam structures, buoyant structures, inflatable structures, and many more. It also looks at the construction methods that use air, such as air-inflated steel, aerated concrete and blow moulding. Filled with photographs, models, drawings, and diagrams, this is the ideal book for curious students, designers and architects.

The Sarasota School of Architecture, 1941-1966

Author : John Howey
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262581566
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book The Sarasota School of Architecture, 1941-1966 written by John Howey and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1997-07-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years: 1941 to 1966. The place: Sarasota, Florida. The story: a sudden burst of fresh, innovative houses by a group of Americans who caught the imagination of the international architectural community. Inflected by local climate, construction practices, regional culture, and Florida life-style, the work of the Sarasota school of architecture—founded by Ralph Twitchell and counting Paul Rudolph, Mark Hampton, Victor Lundy, and Gene Leedy among its practitioners—marks a high point in the development of regional modernism in American architecture. Although the Sarasota school wasn't a consciously organized movement, it was an important chapter in American modernism that, unlike the earlier Bay Area school and Chicago school, has received little study or published scholarly treatment. John Howey, who practices architecture in the region, provides the first solid documentation of the Sarasota group's designs and theories. He has interviewed all of the surviving architects and original clients and has included a rich archive of photographs by Ezra Stoller, Alexandra Georges, and others whose views, particularly of the houses built between 1950 and 1960, gained world-wide exposure when they were first published forty years ago. Howey first investigates the early influences on the Sarasota group, particularly of Frank Lloyd Wright in Florida. He then discusses such pivotal events as the opening of Ralph Twitchell's office in 1936 and the arrival of Paul Rudolph in 1941. Later chapters illustrate the effect of World War II on the Sarasota architects; early postwar successes of Twitchell and Rudolph; the influences of the Bauhaus and International Style; the tendency of various Sarasota architects to create their own design directions the arrival of Victor Lundy in 1954; the effect of changing economic, social, and political agendas on Sarasota's culture; and the philosophy and results of the Sarasota school.

Transparent Plastics

Author : Simone Jeska
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3764374705
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (643 download)

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Download or read book Transparent Plastics written by Simone Jeska and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-10-05 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating guide to building with transparent plastics. Prominent international avant-garde architects such as Shigeru Ban and Herzog & de Meuron frequently use transparent plastic for their structures. Transparent plastic seems ephemeral and thus captures the spirit of the times.

Neuroscience

Author : Laurie Lundy-Ekman
Publisher : Saunders
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Neuroscience written by Laurie Lundy-Ekman and published by Saunders. This book was released on 2002 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This practical guide to neuroscience focuses on the evidence-based information that is most relevant to the practice of physical rehabilitation. Stories written by real people with neurological disorders, case studies, and lists summarizing key features of neurological disorders help you connect the theory of neuroscience with real-world clinical application."--BOOK JACKET.

Constructing Building Enclosures

Author : Clifton Fordham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000081842
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing Building Enclosures written by Clifton Fordham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constructing Building Enclosures investigates and interrogates tensions that arose between the disciplines of architecture and engineering as they wrestled with technology and building cultures that evolved to deliver structures in the modern era. At the center of this history are inventive architects, engineers and projects that did not settle for conventional solutions, technologies and methods. Comprised of thirteen original essays by interdisciplinary scholars, this collection offers a critical look at the development and the purpose of building technology within a design framework. Through two distinct sections, the contributions first challenge notions of the boundaries between architecture, engineering and construction. The authors then investigate twentieth-century building projects, exploring technological and aesthetic boundaries of postwar modernism and uncovering lessons relevant to enclosure design that are typically overlooked. Projects include Louis Kahn’s Weiss House, Minoru Yamasaki’s Science Center, Sigurd Lewerentz’s Chapel of Hope and more. An important read for students, educators and researchers within architectural history, construction history, building technology and design, this volume sets out to disrupt common assumptions of how we understand this history.

Hut Pavilion Shrine: Architectural Archetypes in Mid-Century Modernism

Author : Miles David Samson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317119320
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Hut Pavilion Shrine: Architectural Archetypes in Mid-Century Modernism written by Miles David Samson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phase of American architectural history we call 'mid-century modernism,' 1940-1980, saw the spread of Modern Movement tenets of functionalism, social service and anonymity into mainstream practice. It also saw the spread of their seeming opposites. Temples, arcades, domes, and other traditional types occur in both modernist and traditionalist forms from the 1950s to the 1970s. Hut Pavilion Shrine examines this crossroads of modernism and the archetypal, and critiques its buildings and theory. The book centers on one particularly important and omnipresent type, the pavilion - a type which was the basis of major work by Louis I. Kahn, Paul Rudolph, Philip Johnson, Minoru Yamasaki, and other eminent architects. While focusing primarily on the architecture culture of the United States, it also includes the work of British, European Team X, and Scandinavian designers and writers. Making connections between formal analysis, historical context, and theory, the book continues lines of inquiry which have been pursued by Neil Levine and Anthony Vidler on representation, and by Sarah Goldhagen and Alice Friedman on modernism’s 'forbidden' elements of the honorific and the visually pleasurable. It highlights the significance of 'pavilionizing' mid-century designers such as Victor Lundy, John Johansen, Eero Saarinen, and Edward Durell Stone, and shows how frequently essentialist and traditionalist types appeared in the roadside vernacular of drive-in restaurants, gas stations, furniture and car showrooms, branch banks, and motels. The book ties together the threads in mid-century architectural theory that addressed aspects of type, 'essential' structure, and primal 'humanistic' aspects of environment-making and discusses how these concerns outlived the mid-century moment, and in the designs and writings of Aldo Rossi and others they paved the way for Post-Modernism.

BIG little house

Author : Donna Kacmar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317688961
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book BIG little house written by Donna Kacmar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the challenges architects face when designing dwelling spaces of a limited size? And what can these projects tell us about architecture – and architectural principles – in general? In BIG little house, award-winning architect Donna Kacmar introduces twenty real-life examples of small houses. Each project is under 1,000 square feet (100 square meters) in size and, brought together, the designs reveal an attitude towards materiality, light, enclosure and accommodation which is unique to minimal dwellings. While part of a trend to address growing concerns about minimising consumption and lack of affordable housing, the book demonstrates that small dwellings are not always simply the result of budget constraints but constitute a deliberate design strategy in their own right. Highly illustrated and in full-colour throughout, each example is based on interviews with the original architect and accompanied by detailed floor plans. This ground-breaking, beautifully designed text offers practical guidance to any professional architect or homeowner interested in small scale projects.

Rocky Mountain Modern

Author : John Gendall
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1580935796
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Rocky Mountain Modern written by John Gendall and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rocky Mountain Modern is a collection of the most inspiring modern residences in the Rockies, a region with a surprising but deep history of modernist design Rocky Mountain Modern presents the most inspiring modern residences set within the stunning landscapes of the Rockies. Perched on cliffsides or nestled into verdant valleys, with expansive picture windows framing breathtaking vistas and natural materials such as wood and stone interpreted in new ways, these striking homes reveal modern living at its best in the mountains. Indeed, modern design has a deep connection to the region: in the 1940s, Aspen, a former mining town in the Colorado Rockies, became an unlikely bastion of modernism, hosting some of the world’s leading designers, including Herbert Bayer, Eero Saarinen, Buckminster Fuller, and Victor Lundy. Over the ensuing decades, a regional modernism developed that blended clean lines, open volumes, and glass walls with the natural features of the rocky landscape and a vernacular that had adapted to the extreme environmental conditions. Rocky Mountain Modern celebrates this enduring tradition of modernism through the most remarkable residences in the region, designed by such architecture studios as Selldorf Architects, Olson Kundig, and Allied Works in Aspen, Telluride, Vail, Sun Valley, Jackson Hole, and other picturesque locales across the Rocky Mountains, from New Mexico to British Columbia.

The Inflatable Moment

Author : Marc Dessauce
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568981765
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book The Inflatable Moment written by Marc Dessauce and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Item presents a complete , annotated catalogue of the designs of the Utopie architects and reflects the social events and student protests of 1968.

Victor Lundy

Author : Donna Kacmar
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781616896614
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (966 download)

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Download or read book Victor Lundy written by Donna Kacmar and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're looking for something new under the midcentury sun, Victor Lundy (born 1923) is a real find, an important yet underappreciated figure in the history of American architecture. Trained in both the Beaux Arts and Bauhaus traditions, he built an impressive practice ranging from small-scale residential and commercial buildings to expressive religious buildings and two preeminent institutional works: the US Tax Court Building in Washington, DC (now on the National Register of Historic Places), and the US Embassy in Sri Lanka. This first book on Lundy's life and career documents his early work in the Sarasota School of Architecture, his churches, and his government buildings. In addition to essays on his use of light and material, many of the architect's original drawings, paintings, and sketches—including those from his travels throughout Europe, the Middle East, India, and Mexico, now held at the Library of Congress— are reproduced here for the first time.

The Creative Architect

Author : Pierluigi Serraino
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1580934250
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Creative Architect written by Pierluigi Serraino and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story behind a little-known episode in the annals of modern architecture and psychology—a 1950s creativity study of the top architects of the day, including Eero Saarinen, I.M. Pei, Philip Johnson, Louis Kahn, Richard Neutra, George Nelson, and dozens more—is now published for the first time. The story of midcentury architecture in America is dominated by outsized figures who were universally acknowledged as creative geniuses. Yet virtually unheard of is this intensive 1958–59 study, conducted at the Institute of Personality Assessment and Research at the University of California, Berkeley, that scrutinized these famous architects in an effort to map their minds. Deploying an array of tests reflecting current psychological theories, the investigation sought to answer questions that still apply to creative practice today: What makes a person creative? What are the biographical conditions and personality traits necessary to actualize that potential? The study’s findings have been gathered through numerous original sources, including questionnaires, aptitude tests, and interview transcripts, revealing how these great architects evaluated their own creativity and that of their peers. In The Creative Architect, Pierluigi Serraino charts the development, implementation, and findings of this historic study, producing the first look at a fascinating and forgotten moment in architecture, psychology, and American history.

Curb

Author : Divya Victor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781643620701
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Curb written by Divya Victor and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2022 PEN Open Book Award! Winner of the 2022 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award! Finalist for the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Awards in Poetry! Curb maps our post-9/11 political landscape by locating the wounds of domestic terrorism at unacknowledged sites of racial and religious conflict across cities and suburbs of the United States. Divya Victor documents how immigrants and Americans navigate the liminal sites of everyday living: lawns, curbs, and sidewalks, undergirded by violence but also constantly repaved with new possibilities of belonging. Curb witnesses immigrant survival, familial bonds, and interracial parenting in the context of nationalist and white-supremacist violence against South Asians. The book refutes the binary of the model minority and the monstrous, dark "other" by reclaiming the throbbing, many-tongued, vermillion heart of kith.

Contemporary Architects

Author : Muriel Emanuel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 134904184X
Total Pages : 935 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Architects written by Muriel Emanuel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-23 with total page 935 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

John Wildrick of New Jersey, 1707-1793

Author : William C. Armstrong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book John Wildrick of New Jersey, 1707-1793 written by William C. Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mindfuckers

Author : Robin Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mindfuckers written by Robin Green and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: