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Featuring 40 majestic homes from New England to California, this collection of breathtaking homes includes 400 full-color photographs. Detailed architectural drawings and sketches are also provided, along with a comprehensive description of each artist's creative process and stylistic preference. At once eye-popping and inviting, this book provides valuable insights into the unquestionable originality and splendor of every dwelling.
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The next wave: architecture's future stars...
Who are the Norman Fosters, Richard Meiers, and Tadao Andos of tomorrow? Discover the next generation of designers who are already starting to shape the future of architecture for the new millennium, redefining the relationships between culture, environment, structure, and space. Taking their inspiration from visions of the future and traces of the past, these are the people who are defining the aesthetics of tomorrow's architecture. Some of the architects featured, such as Shigeru Ban of Japan and Ben van Berkel from Holland, have already gained critical acclaim for their work. The rest, such as Marc Barani and Aranda Pigem Vilalta, are waiting in the wings.
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Showcasing the new breed!!!.......2007-09-15
"40 architects around 40" is a nice little book (about 8"x6"), published by Taschen, who also published the "Architecture now!" series.
It is a book showcasing the works of up and coming, or established architects around the age of 40. Each architect/practice gets devoted an average of 12 pages of colour photos, drawings, and/or sketches, and the projects showcased range from residential, to commercial, and industrial.
The text is in 3 languages; English, German, and French, and the projects showcased range from every continent in the world.
Great book!!
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- Recomended
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40 Under 40 : Young Architects for the New Millennium
Jessica Cargill Thompson
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Recomended.......2002-05-03
Excellent book, with varied content and beautiful pics. Great to look at or for reference
Refrence and Ideas.......2002-03-25
This book is an above average collection of Architects. It is mostly pictures with a short discription on the architects. The projects are each given about 2 pages with each architect about 6.
A LOOK AT THE NEXT GENERATION OF INFLUENTIAL ARCHITECTS.......2001-01-18
Who are the Norman Fosters, Richard Meiers and Tadao Andos of tomorrow? Who will build our airports, museums, and homes in the 21st century? 40 ARCHITECTS UNDER 40 is TASCHEN's answer.
Discover the next generation of designers who are already starting to shape the architecture of the new millennium, redefining the relationships between culture, environment, structure, and space. Finding inspiration from visions of the future and traces of the past, these are the people who are defining the aesthetics of tomorrow's architecture.
This new and original book takes us on a tour around the world, highlighting the best young architects and their groundbreaking work. Some of the architects featured, such as Shigeru Ban of Japan and UN Studio from the Netherlands, have already gained critical acclaim for their work. The rest, such as Marc Barani and Aranda Pigem Vilalta, are poised on the brink.
40 ARCHITECTS UNDER 40 is organized alphabetically by architect or firm, each entry featuring biographical and bibliographical information, as well as text highlighting each designer's most important works to date. With a wealth of photos and floor plans and a fresh, innovative layout, 40 ARCHITECTS UNDER 40 is both an essential reference book and exciting peek into the future of architecture.
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- Breathtaking
- Gina's Review of this book
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Jacob Lawrence: The Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman Series of 1938-40
Ellen Harkins Wheat
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Breathtaking.......2002-10-05
Parents hoping to introduce their children to modern American art could do worse than to buy this edition reproducing two series of paintings by Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000), one of the finest African American artists in U.S. history.
Published in 1991 by the Hampton University Museum in Virginia, this book contains four essays and reproductions of two Lawrence series, all 32 Frederick Douglass paintings made in 1938 and 1939 and all 31 Harriet Tubman paintings made in 1939 and 1940. Lawrence painted both series and wrote the captions to tell the stories of hope and emancipation of African Americans.
The first three essays, each running 10 to 12 pages, relate how Lawrence developed his series format and, specifically, how he developed the ideas and art in each of these two stories. He was influenced by a belief that African Americans, while not still enslaved, were in 1940 still in "an economic slavery." The stories he featured, while historical, remained relevant to his own period as well. The fourth covers the imagery of struggle.
Bold and unforgiving, Lawrence's vibrant works grew from his own childhood migration--from Atlantic City, New Jersey to Easton, Pennsylvania, to Philadelphia and finally, at 13, to Harlem, from his exposure to African-American culture--and his intensive training in the Utopia Children's House and New Deal-sponsored Harlem Art Workshop of the 1930s. In Harlem, he studied old masters like Giotto and Pieter Breughel the Elder and modern masters like Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cezanne and Henri Matisse.
At that time, the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was still funding public art murals, but Lawrence was too young to gain a commission. Instead, he determined to show the African-American struggle for freedom in real-life stories, tying past to present. From 1938 to 1941, he used the New York public library for research, creating in swift succession five series of paintings telling the stories of Toussaint L'Ouverture, Douglass, Tubman, John Brown, and The Migration of the Negro.
In the middle two series, Lawrence hoped to speak artistically of the legendary escapes from slavery made by two African-American heroes, each of whom led the struggle for ultimate freedom for all. The paintings depicted beatings, coercion, repression and ultimately courageous escapes. The faces and bodies in these works speak of the brutality of slavery and the exhilaration that came from its escape. Lawrence wove bold colors and themes throughout the series, thereby joining each set of paintings into a whole.
He succeeded, too, because these works are as beautiful and wild as anything ever created by van Gogh, and a great deal more hopeful.
Even if you don't want to know all the personal and American history that Lawrence melded in the creation of these works--which I can't imagine--you will relish owning a book containing color plates of two entire series, complete with Lawrence's enthralling captions.
This book is a gem. Alyssa A. Lappen
Gina's Review of this book.......2002-03-01
My review of this book is somewhat good and somewhat bad, thus I have some good news and some bad. I shall now explain to you the good things about this book. Some of thy good things about this book is that if your deciding to do Frederick Douglass or Harriet Tubman this is a good book for a project but the bad things about the book. Is that say for example you are just doing Harriet Tubman or your just doing Frederick Douglass, it would be difficult to just find information about one, because you could think thier talking about about Harriet you could get the wrong information, and research the wrong information. That is why i would not buy this book, for myself or for anyone that I now. PS: I lllooooovvvvveeeeeeee BILLY
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40 Under 40: A Guide to New Young Talent With Seductive Ideas for Living Today
Beverly Russell
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Foster 40
Norman Foster , and
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40 years, 40 projects, and 40 themes central to the success of Foster + Partners.
In 2007 Norman Foster celebrates 40 years of independent practice. Founded in 1967 as Foster Associates and now known as Foster + Partners, for over four decades his studio has grown to become one of the largest and most respected in the world. Since its inception, the practice has received more than 400 awards and citations for excellence and has won more than 70 international and national competitions. The new book celebrates 40 years of Foster's most important projects, together with 40 themes that have consistently underpinned his work. Echoing the spirit of Foster's architecture, the book itself is designed around a pioneering format which allows the content to be accessed interactively. This inventive volume provides an extraordinary view into the ideas that drive Foster's seemingly inexhaustible creative energy.
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Retail & Restaurant Spaces: Portfolios of 40 Architects and Designers
Kristen Richards
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From funky coffee bars to five-star gourmet restaurants, and from multinational retailers to unique specialty boutiques, Retail and Restaurant Spaces presents today's most innovative, imaginative, and even daring designs. This beautifully illustrated volume is a valuable resource for designers, shoppers, and restaurant-goers who wish to experience environments of exceptional quality throughout the world.
-Brings together 41 of the world's leading retail and restaurant designers. -Offers the best in retail design that encourages customers to visit often- ranging from Eddie Bauer to Jimmy Buffet's Margitaville to Awake Cosmetics to Ann Taylor and Neiman Marcus. -Demonstrates how design can enhance the dining experience.
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Too much modern architecture, while spectacularly designed, bears little or no relation to the community in which it is built. The International Borromini Prize for Architecture honors works by young architects which are both well-designed and carefully fitted to the place and the time in which they were built; works that advance both architecture and community. This volume details the works of the fifty finalists nominated for the 2001 International Borromini Prize for Architecture. The work of these finalists - all architects under forty years of age-represents a wide variety of buildings including exhibition spaces, schools, public spaces, gardens, offices, hospitals and private dwellings from North America, Europe, Asia and the Near East. Each nominee's project is presented with color photos of the site, annotated renderings and critical commentary by the member of the committee of established architects who selected them as a finalist. These 50 young architects are the forerunners of innovative architectural design, clearly representing the necessities and requirements of the future without ignoring the past and the present.
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The Helen D. Ling Collection of Chinese Ceramics (Studies in Chinese Art History and Archeology, Col. 3)
Manufacturer: University of Maryland, Art Gallery
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During the 1920s and 1930s, Edward Steichen was the most successful photographer in the advertising industry. Although much has been said about Steichen's fine-art photography, his commercial work--which appeared regularly in Vanity Fair, Vogue, Ladies Home Journal, and almost every other popular magazine published in the United States--has not received the attention it deserves.
At a time when photography was just beginning to replace drawings as the favored medium for advertising, Steichen helped transform the producers of such products as Welch's grape juice and Jergens lotion from small family businesses to national household names. In this book, Patricia Johnston uses Steichen's work as a case study of the history of advertising and the American economy between the wars. She traces the development of Steichen's work from an early naturalistic style through increasingly calculated attempts to construct consumer fantasies. By the 1930s, alluring images of romance and class, developed in collaboration with agency staff and packaged in overtly manipulative and persuasive photographs, became Steichen's stock-in-trade. He was most frequently chosen by agencies for products targeted toward women: his images depicted vivacious singles, earnest new mothers, and other stereotypically female life stages that reveal a great deal about the industry's perceptions of and pitches to this particular audience.
Johnston presents an intriguing inside view of advertising agencies, drawing on an array of internal documents to reconstruct the team process that involved clients, art directors, account executives, copywriters, and photographers. Her book is a telling chronicle of the role of mass media imagery in reflecting, shaping, and challenging social values in American culture.
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Farley's San Francisco Chronicles by Phil Frank. Foreword by San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown.
Cartoonist Phil Frank's daily cartoon strip, Farley, has been keeping a finger on the pulse of the Bay Area for more than ten years. "I'm Ink, Therefore I Am!" gathers a collection of about 300 strips, originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle, for 1990 through 1996. Though local in orientation, the cartoons pertain to situations that arise anywhere people live, work, and vote in significant numbers. Characters such as Bruce D. Raven, Bruinhilda, and, of course, Farley himself are involved in mayoral elections, voter referendums, the local sports scene, and the social climate.
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Relief from the troubles of the world.......2001-11-24
This is the twin to his "Going Local" -- local topical cartoons about San Francisco. Even though I live near SF rather than in it, I find them hilarious and read them every day at sfgate.com. Thank you, Mr Frank for so much relief from all the troubles of the world!
A unique view of San Francisco.......1998-08-09
Phil Frank has been drawing a daily cartoon for the San Francisco Chronicle for about 10 years or so. While I lived there his strip had always been the first thing I read in the morning, and I am rather happy that finally there is a collection of selected strips from '90 - '96. I guess I must have seen most of them before, but aside from a lot of fond memories I also got a lot of laughs out of this collection. But it certainly isn't one of the "you-had-to-be-there-to-get-it" things - I have loaned my copy to a couple of people her in Germany, and they also were rather amused by it. There is a fair amount of local politics that serves as a background for the jokes, but there are also many stories about the affairs of the heart of the hero of the strip, Farley, and his on-going realtionship with Irene the metermaid who makes parking such sweet sorrow for him, about the four bears who run the Fog City Dumpster for the four-legged gourmets of San Francisco, and ab! out Orwell T. Cat's carreer as a fall-cat in the White House. So just go ahead and buy it - it's really, really funny, and it's a lot cheaper than going to San Francisco yourself.
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- A Grammar of Old Turkic (Handbook of Oriental Studies)
- A Palace for a King: The Buen Retiro and the Court of Philip IV
- AISC Manual of Steel Construction: Load and Resistance Factor Design, Second Edition, LRFD, 2nd Edition, (Volume 1: Structural Members, Specifications, & Codes), (1994)
- Antoine Predock: Houses
- Apremont (Small Books of Great Gardens) (Small Books of Great Gardens)
- Architectural Modeling & Rendering with AutoCad R13 and R14
- Art of Engagement: Visual Politics in California and Beyond
- At Nature's Edge: Frank Lloyd Wright's Artist Studio
- Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist (Galaxy Books)
- Australian Architecture Now
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