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When Brazil Was Modern: A Guide to Architecture, 1928-1960
Lauro Cavalcanti Manufacturer: Princeton Architectural Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1568983417 |
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This comprehensive guide to modern Brazilian architecture takes us on a fascinating tour of over 125 buildings and projects designed between 1928, the year of Gregori Warchavchik's historic Paulista House, and 1960, the year the capital of Brasilia was inaugurated. Works by thirty-three architects, including renowned figures such as Oscar Niemeyer and Paulo Mendes da Rocha and lesser-known, but equally exciting, architects like Flavio de Carvalho and Lina Bo Bardi, are presented in this handsomely designed guide. Each entry provides photographs, drawings, a brief description, and information on visitor access. When Brazil was Modern is a complete survey of the country's modern architectural legacy, and not only fills a forty year-old bibliographic gap on the subject, but also sheds new light on the aesthetics and social underpinnings of Brazil's modern architecture. By including the unconventional and experimental, author Cavalcanti challenges the very definition of what was modern, in Brazil, the Americas, and elsewhere.Customer Reviews:
Excelente como un "overview' de la arquitectura heroica brasilena........2007-06-15
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Brazil's Modern Architecture
Elisabetta Andreoli , and Adrian Forty Manufacturer: Phaidon Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0714842923 |
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This is the most comprehensive survey and analysis of twentieth-century Brazilian Architecture, written by Brazilian architects and writers for an international audience. Its key events and buildings appear not in a conventional chronological account but within a series of thematic chapters (critical reception, construction issues, urbanism, typological description of the modern house, affordable housing and new fields of practice, survey of recent works). It is a history of Brazilian modern architecture retold with a Brazilian voice by the new generation of critics and historians. This book offers a fresh reading of the well-known era of high-modernism of the 1930s-1960s placing it within both the context of architecture before and since and the broader changes taking place in Brazilian culture at the time. It also charts post-Brasilia developments, including contemporary projects, showing how architects have adapted to the contradictions of an increasingly polarised society and the relevance of Brazilian architecture for current debates around issues such as large-scale urban growth and the tension between local identities and global civilisation. Covering around 200 projects, it is extensively illustrated with both historical black and white photographs and new colour photographs and drawingsCustomer Reviews:
BRAZIL'S MODERN ARCHITECTURE.......2007-07-16
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As Mais Belas Igrejas do Brasil: The Most Beautiful Churches of Brazil (Bilingual Portuguese-English Edition)
Percival Tirapeli , Wolfgang Pfeiffer , Percival Tirapeli , Wolfgang. Pfeiffer , Günter. Heil , Ronaldo G. Couto , and Kevin. Mundy Manufacturer: Metalivros ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 8585371250 |
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The Unique Vernacular of Brazilian Baroque........2000-04-17
Brazilian baroque architecture is one of the few New World styles that takes a place in the Architectural Pantheon as a sophisticated vernacular unto itself. It is not a part of the quaint adobe tradition, but rather falls in line with the great churches of the Old World. In Brazil one speaks of Portuguese colonial architecture and also of Brazilan Baroque. The speed and wealth with which Brazilian cities rose in the 17th and 18th centuries goes unparalleled in North America. The Portuguese turned the sugarcane cities of the North, Salvador and Recife, and the gold-trafficking cities of the South, Ouro Preto and Rio de Jeneiro, from backwaters and fortresses into worldly cities. The nobles, the wealthy bourgeoisie, and the church orders all vied to bring the "best" of their baroque civilization to the New World; and succeed mightily they did. The rhetorical message of wealth conveyed by the Church's "gilded grottoes" is irrefutable. To such a degree that Salvador today is rightly called "Roma Negra": Black Rome.
The grave and crisp book format is buoyed by the reverent photography of Günter Heil. Rarely is architecture afforded such loving attention. One only wishes there was more, seeing that some of the photographs were aparently chosen for their artistic merits above the illustrative, as seen in the one photo of the most remarkable façade in Salvador, the Church of the Third Order of São Francisco: one of the few traces of late Mannerism in the New World, the photo of which is blocked by the raked silhouette of a portal. The fact that the book leaves, literally, so much to be desired is not at all a shortcoming, rather proof of its seduction. This is true of the text as well. One longs for more anecdotes from the history of the great architects or the slaves and natives who built these wonders. European and North American readers who have taken it for granted that the story and soul of the Baroque resides in Europe only, will be vainly curious for more information on such Brazilian cultural heros as the mulato sculptor and architect Aleijadinho, nicknamed "the Cripple", or the painter of the ceiling of the Cathedral Church in Salvador, the Franco-Chinese artist Wei-Kia-Lou (Charles Belville).
The text contained in the book and chapter introductions is informative for the neophyte, though less-so for scholars. The text accompanying the illustrated litany of churches is, in contrast, largely a codification of elements, names and dates. It's the sort of picture book that makes one feel terribly smart. For anyone interested in the subject of Colonial History or of Architecture in General, this luscious book goes highly recommended.
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Brazil Built: The architecture of the Modern Movement in Brazil
Zilah Q Deckker Manufacturer: Taylor & Francis ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0415231787 |
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A welcome addition to the history of the Modern Movement, this new book is a fully illustrated description of modern architecture in Brazil from 1929 to 1959. This unique presentation of the major Modern buildings of Brazil will be of interest to architects, historians and for a non-specialist audience worldwide.
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Brazilian Conditions: Complex and Simple
Rüdiger Lainer , Sabina Riss , Dieter Spath , and R. Kohoutek Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 3211321926 |
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Wie begegnet man dem Mythos Brasiliens, wie der monumentalen Arbeit Oscar Niemeyers? Im Jahresprogramm des Studio Lainer erfolgte die Annäherung an die Prinzipien der brasilianischen Architektur über assoziative Entwürfe. Dokumentiert werden Recherchen und Studienprojekte, die, integriert in einem selbst erstellten operativen Reisehandbuch, als aktiver Wahrnehmungsfilter für die spätere Architekturexkursion nach Brasilien dienen. Illustriert wird auch, wie die erlebte Aura der Brasilianischen Moderne, wahrgenommen von 40 architektonischen Augen, in nachfolgenden Entwürfen der Studierenden reflektiert wurde.
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Oscar Niemeyer: Une esthetique de la fluidite (Monographies d'architectes)
Gilbert Luigi Manufacturer: Parentheses ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 2863640372 |
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Engenho & arquitetura: Tipologia dos edificios dos antigos engenhos de acucar de Pernambuco
Geraldo Gomes da Silva Manufacturer: Secretaria de Industria, Comercio e Turismo ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 8585197056 |
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Modern Architecture in Brazil
Henrique E. Mindlin Manufacturer: Reinhold Publishing Corp. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0000CJKZA |
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On modernism and modernization: The modernist city in development, the case of BrasiÌlia (Working paper)
James Holston Manufacturer: Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006YUUEQ |
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Rembrandt: See and Do Children's Book
Ceciel de Bie , and Martijn Leenen Manufacturer: Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0892366214 |
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Beautifully designed and illustrated with drawings, photographs, and reproductions of works of art, the See and Do books offer children an ideal and engaging way to explore the lives of these great artists and the works that made them famous.Customer Reviews:
Blends biography with artistic insights for grades 4-6.......2001-12-16
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Rembrandt: See and Do Children's Books
Manufacturer: Exhibitions International ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 9066116528 |
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Kodak Library of Creative Photography: Mastering Composition and Light
Manufacturer: Time-Life Books, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0867062118 |
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Mastering composition and light (Kodak library of creative photography)
Manufacturer: Published by Time-Life Books in association with Kodak ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0867062096 |
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THE KODAK LIBRARY OF CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY - MASTERING COMPOSITION AND LIGHT
Manufacturer: Time Life ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000GR0HKK |
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Mastering Composition and Light
Manufacturer: Time Life UK ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0705415430 |
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Mastering Composition and Light (Kodak Library of Creative Photography)
Manufacturer: Time-Life Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 086706210X |
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Library of Creative Photography Lc-4 (Mastering Composition and Light)
Manufacturer: HarperCollins ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9995043009 |
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Mastering Composition and Light
Manufacturer: Silver Burdett Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0316500771 |
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Mastering Composition and Light
n/a Manufacturer: Silver Burdett Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000VDX75G |
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Mastering The Composition and Light
Kodak Manufacturer: Time-Life Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000IMS6JC |
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Dragon Ball, Vol. 5
Manufacturer: VIZ Media LLC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 1569319243 |
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Printed in the original Japanese right-to-left format, here is another adventure from the megapopular Dragon Ball series. This episode features the battle of the century - Goku vs. Jackie Chun. No trick is too down-and-dirty, no technique too physically challenging. When Goku turns into King Kong in the middle of the Tenkai-ichi Budokai, everyone is running scared! What can stop a 50-foot monkey?
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Dragon Ball Z, Vol. 5
Manufacturer: VIZ Media LLC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1569319340 |
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Here is the fifth volume of the runaway hit series printed in the original Japanese right-to-left format. Using the ancient Namek spaceship, Bulma, Gohan, and Kuririn set off to Planet Namek. But upon landing on the original world of the Dragon Balls, their jubilation is short-lived: Vegeta arrives minutes later. Worse still, Emperor Freezer has already invaded!Customer Reviews:
song of hatred.......2005-12-21
song of hatred.......2005-12-21
A Piece of Brilliance in Your Hand Part 2.......2004-09-20
A Piece of Brilliance in Your Hand.......2004-08-24
Shonen Jump makes good Dragonball!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2003-04-20
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Dragon Ball, Vol. 5
Manufacturer: VIZ Media LLC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1569315493 |
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This episode features the battle of the century Goku vs. Jackie Chun. In this fight, no trick is too down-and-dirty, no technique too physically challenging. Full moon plus Goku equals giant ape, and when Goku turns into King Kong in the middle of the Tenkai-ichi Budokai, Jackie Chun and the audience are running scared! What can stop a 50-foot monkey?
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Dragon Ball Z, Vol. 5
Manufacturer: VIZ Media LLC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1569315507 |
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Using the ancient Namek spaceship, a last-ditch party of astronauts Bulma, Gohan, and Kuririn set off to Planet Namek. But upon landing on the original world of the Dragon Balls, the space explorers' jubilation is short-lived: Vegeta arrives minutes later. Worse still, the greatest despot in the universe, Emperor Freezer, has already invaded!Customer Reviews:
Dragon Ball Z Graphic Novel 5.......2002-06-17
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Dragonball (Perfect version) Vol. 5 (Dragon Ball (Kanzen ban)) (in Japanese)
Akira Toriyama Manufacturer: Shueisha ProductGroup: Book Binding: Comic ASIN: 4088734483 |
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