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Frank Lloyd Wright

A Life

By: Ada Louise Huxtable

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Pulitzer Prize?winning critic Ada Louise Huxtable?s biography of America?s greatest architect Renowned architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable's biography Frank Lloyd Wright looks at the architect and the man, from his tumultuous personal life to his long career as a master builder. Along the way she introduces Wright's masterpieces, from the tranquil Fallingwater to Taliesin, rebuilt after tragedy and murder-not only exploring the mind of the man who drew the blueprints but also delving into the very heart of the medium, which he changed forever.

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Penguin

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0143114298

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9780143114291

On Architecture

Collected Reflections on a Century of Change

By: Ada Louise Huxtable

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On Architecture

Collected Reflections on a Century of Change

By: Ada Louise Huxtable

Known for her well-reasoned and passionately held beliefs about architecture, Ada Louise Huxtable has captivated readers across the country for decades, in the process becoming one of the best known critics in the United States. Her brilliance over so many years is unmatched, and her range has always been vast-from a plea to save a particular architectural treasure to an ongoing discussion about whether modern architecture is dead. Her keen eye and vivid writing have reinforced to readers how important architecture is and why it continues to be both controversial and fascinating. Since so much of her writing has been in newspapers, it has quickly become unavailable to her many fans. On Architecture will bring together her best work from the New York Times, New York Review of Books, her more recent essays in the Wall Street Journal, and her various books. She is personally selecting and organizing the pieces into sections like "Art and Culture" and "The Art of Architecture," and is revising them as needed to bring them up to date. Whether you love modern architecture or desire a return to Beaux Arts design, this book will give you insight into the mind and heart of a critic who has artfully brought the discussion of architecture, architects and our environment to readers for five decades.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0802777600

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9780802777607

Frank Lloyd Wright

A Life

By: Ada Louise Huxtable

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A Life

By: Ada Louise Huxtable

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1440631735

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Making Architecture

The Getty Center

By: Harold M. Williams,Ada Louise Huxtable,Stephen D. Rountree,Richard Meier

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Making Architecture

The Getty Center

By: Harold M. Williams,Ada Louise Huxtable,Stephen D. Rountree,Richard Meier

This volume completes the documentation of the planning, design, and construction of the Getty Center begun in The Getty Center (1991). Designed by Richard Meier and Partners, the Getty Center sits atop a stunning 110-acre hilltop in west Los Angeles and is the new home for the Museum, the five Institutes, and the Grant Program that make up the J. Paul Getty Trust. The book includes a series of essays that underscore the challenges faced by architect, contractor, and owner working collaboratively. A chronology identifies the key dates and events in the design and construction process. Extensively illustrated with photographs by several accomplished photographers, site drawings from Richard Meier and Partners, and Robert Irwin's drawings of the Central Gardens, the book presents readers with an insider's view of the making of the Getty Center.

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179

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Getty Publications

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0892364637

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9780892364633

Pier Luigi Nervi

By: Ada Louise Huxtable

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Pier Luigi Nervi

By: Ada Louise Huxtable

This book by Pulitzer-Prize-winning critic Ada Louise Huxtable is a monograph on the great Italian architect and structural engineer Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979), which was first published in 1960. PIER LUIGI NERVI was born in Sandrio, Italy, on June 21, 1891. He completed his formal studies at the civil engineering school of the University of Bologna in 1913. After graduating, he worked for the Società per Costruzioni Cementizie until 1920, receiving thorough experience in the design of reinforced concrete. In 1920 he formed the partnership of Soc. Ing. Nervi e Nebbiosi. During this association, which lasted until 1932, several noteworthy structures were built, especially the Florence Municipal Stadium. In 1932 he joined with a cousin to form Ingg. Nervi e Bartoli, the design and construction firm which he headed; the famous airplane hangars of 1938-1943, won by the firm in competition, brought Nervi international attention. In the mid-1940s he developed the versatile material “Ferro-cementa,” a system of layers of fine steel mesh sprayed with cement mortar, which he used in the extraordinary Grand Salon of the Turin Exhibition Hall (1949). With this, building, Nervi became firmly established as one of the world’s foremost engineers, a reputation reinforced again and again by subsequent works, including the completion of three stadia for the 1960 Olympics in Rome. A member of the International Congresses of Modern Architecture (CIAM), he was also Professor of Technology and Construction Techniques at the University of Rome. He was awarded Gold Medals by the Institution of Structural Engineers in the UK, the American Institute of Architects (AIA Gold Medal 1964) and the RIBA. In 1957, he received the Frank P. Brown Medal of The Franklin Institute and the Wilhelm Exner Medal. Pier Luigi Nervi died on January 9, 1979 at the age of 87.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1787208494

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9781787208490

The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered

The Search for a Skyscraper Style

By: Ada Louise Huxtable

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The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered

The Search for a Skyscraper Style

By: Ada Louise Huxtable

Ada Louise Huxtable offers here an energetic defense of cities and a brilliant consideration of the skyscraper as art, as business, as the product of politics and speculation.

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Pantheon

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0394741544

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9780394741543

Pier Luigi Nervi

By: Ada Louise Huxtable

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The Unreal America

Architecture and Illusion

By: Ada Louise Huxtable

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The Unreal America

Architecture and Illusion

By: Ada Louise Huxtable

A leading American architectural critic examines Americans' peculiar passion for synthetic environments, such as shopping malls and Disneyworld, and charges today's architecture with being dehumanized and functionally out of tune with the environment.

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188

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1565844270

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9781565844278

In Situ

George Ranelli, Works and Projects

By: George Ranalli,Michael Sorkin

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In Situ

George Ranelli, Works and Projects

By: George Ranalli,Michael Sorkin

In Situ Design sums up the theoretical position embodied in the work of New York architect George Ranalli. Over the past 32 years, George Ranalli has worked on projects in New York, other states in the U.S., and across the world that have involved large-scale urban design, houses in the landscape, additions, renovations of major landmark buildings and new constructions * George Ranalli is internationally celebrated and published for his work in historic settings, National Register Historic Landmark buildings and settings with rich design and craft traditions. In Situ is his operational strategy in the design of these new buildings and additions to these complexes, providing contemporary and creative structures that also blend in seamlessly with their historic environments * The projects have developed a rich craft and design vocabulary, which links this work to the origins and roots of the longer craft tradition in design and architecture.

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Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishing Limited

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9881619475

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9789881619471

Book's by Ada Louise Huxtable

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

On Architecture

On Architecture

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Making Architecture

Making Architecture

Pier Luigi Nervi

Pier Luigi Nervi

The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered

The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered

Pier Luigi Nervi

Pier Luigi Nervi

The Unreal America

The Unreal America

In Situ

In Situ

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