A thoroughly updated and redesigned edition of McCarter's esteemed monograph on the globally-revered modern master.0Louis I Kahn was one of the greatest influences on post-WWII world architecture, and in the twenty-first century his significance has skyrocketed. In this revised, expanded, and redesigned edition of Phaidon's bestselling and critically-acclaimed monograph, Robert McCarter explores how Kahn redefined Modern architecture - and why his work remains a fundamental source today. Extensively illustrated, this comprehensive overview includes both built and unbuilt projects, as well as a project realized forty years after Kahn's death - New York City's Four Freedoms Park.
Robert McCarter provides a comprehensive study of Aldo van Eyck's 50-year career, guiding readers through the architect's buildings and unrealised projects, with a focus on the interior spatial experience as well as the design and construction processes. He investigates how van Eyck's writings and lectures convey the importance of architecture in the everyday lives of people around the world and throughout history, and by presenting the architect's design work together with the principles on which it was founded, illuminates van Eyck's ethical interpretation of architecture's place in the world.
Alvar Aalto once argued that what mattered in architecture wasn’t what a building looks like on the day it opens but what it is like to live inside it thirty years later. In this book, architect and critic Robert McCarter persuasively argues that interior spatial experience is the necessary starting point for design, and the quality of that experience is the only appropriate means of evaluating a work after it has been built. McCarter reveals that we can’t really know a piece of architecture without inhabiting its spaces, and we need to counter our contemporary obsession with exterior views and forms with a renewed appreciation for interiors. He explores how interior space has been integral to the development of modern architecture from the late 1800s to today, and he examines how architects have engaged interior space and its experiences in their design processes, fundamentally transforming traditional approaches to composition. Eloquently placing us within a host of interior spaces, he opens up new ways of thinking about architecture and what its goals are and should be.
Kenneth Bendiner journeys from the Renaissance to the present day—through the works of artists from Rembrandt to Manet to Warhol—to make the case that, though understudied, paintings of food are so important that they should be considered a separate classification of art, a genre unto themselves.
William Morgan is a fundamental modernist whose work has for forty years remained absolutely true to the principles of modern architecture. Each of Morgan's designs can therefore be said to have a multitude of 'precedents' from throughout time, and not on
The definitive monograph on a celebrated Italian architect, Carlo Scarpa includes more than 350 photographs, sketches, and architectural plans, along with in‐depth ‘walk throughs’ of over 15 key projects such as the Central Pavilion in the Giardini of the Venice Bienniale, the Olivetti Showroom in St. Mark’s Square, the Canova Museum, and the Brion Cemetery. A cult figure with mass appeal, Scarpa was heralded by architectural luminaries such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Kahn. Today, Scarpa’s work is more relevant than ever.
Help your students understand some of the most elusive fundamentals of epidemiology and biostatistics with this fully updated revision of the bestselling Study Guide to Epidemiology and Biostatistics. The Seventh Edition offers expanded chapters as well as coverage of new topics that have become prevalent in the medical literature such as: receiver-operator curve analysis to improve sensitivity/specificity; the power of a statistical test; one-tailed P values; comparison-wise significance levels versus study-wise significance levels; confidence interval and its relationship to statistical significance; meta-analysis with current methods for assessing heterogeneity and the potential for publication bias; and the use of propensity scoring to reduce bias in non-experimental studies. Key Features: • 46 objectives, expressed in behavioral terms, cite the concepts to be learned and the level at which students are expected to perform • Study Notes, which can be used as the sole source of input to cover the material or used to supplement attendance at a lecture series • Chapter Exercises, which encourage students to immediately use their newly acquired knowledge, and thus improve retention through practice • Multiple Choice Examinations, which have the same scope and are on the same level that students may expect to encounter in professional examinations
The Fifth Edition of this popular text is your student's comprehensive study guide to the basic principles of both epidemiology and biostatistics. Clear and concise study notes and exercises help your students learn and apply concepts in epidemiology and biostatistics, while multiple-choice examinations test their understanding. Application of these concepts to critical assessment of epidemiologic studies is emphasized. This updated and revised New Edition includes: A new section on meta-analysis; revised self-assessment exercises; coverage of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention in the context of screening for disease.
FROM THE BACK COVER: When someone dies, the world doesn't stop. It seems like it should, but it doesn't. It would be useful if it did stop. You know, take a moment, get your bearings, and deal with practical and emotional details that engulf a death. But no, no stopping, no break, you just gotta continue your drunkard's walk down the path of life. When I died, the world didn't stop, not a bit. I wasn't expecting it to, but it would've been nice, you know? My death thrust me into this new world that I didn't understand. I found myself grappling with the life I left behind and what I had left undone, while at the same time trying to come to grips with this new afterlife. I was a murderous poltergeist for a while, and then a guardian angel. I have struggled to reach my loved ones and fought to keep them safe. I've seen Hamlet performed in a graveyard by a pack of ghosts, had some amazing adventures, and even survived the bardo. It's not easy... life is complicated, even when it's an afterlife. But it's still worth living, even though I'm "dead." My name is JJ. I'm a ghost. This is my story. EXCERPT FROM SUFFLED OFF: The morgue was next, a cold sterile room where my body was shoved into a drawer. There were three others there with me. I guess you would call them ghosts, but I was still having a hard time with that. All three were wispy floating forms with silver cords leading to a drawer. Two were completely out of it, looking gape jawed and stupid, just wandering around. The third's name was Jesus. "Hey fresh meat, what happened to you?" he asked. I would have jumped out of my skin, if I had skin. I don't know why, but I just wasn't expecting that. "Huh?" I mumbled. "Oh man, not another bardo-brain," he said. "What?" "What a waste of space. Can't you bring me someone to talk to?" He looked up as he said this. "Are you talking to me?" "Praise be to Guadalupe Yeah man, I'm talking to you." With a big smile on his face he added, "My name is Hey-zeus." "Hey-zeus, you mean as in Gee-zus?" "Difference in pronunciation. If you would be so kind, please call me Hey-zeus. Although I am a mighty handsome guy, I don't want to be confused with the big fellow." He pointed up. I am not sure if he was handsome or not: his dancing eyes were brown; his face was plain and kind looking; and he had a big full mustache wiggling above his smile. "Oh yeah, sure. My name is JJ." I would have extended my hand, but it wasn't quite like that. I had a sense of form, but it wasn't steady, especially regarding limbs. Jesus's face was clear, but the rest of his body came in and out of... hmmm... focus I guess, depending on what he was doing. I suppose it was the same for mine. Turns out Jesus had been there a while. He was an illegal and as such his body had not been claimed yet. Jesus was a bounty hunter that had snuck across the border chasing a murderer. He wasn't like a normal bounty hunter, at least not what I thought normal bounty hunters did; he also tried to "show them the light of the divine Mother Mary" before he turned them in. Next came, what I have come to know is, a standard ritual among the dead. "So, how'd you die?" Jesus asked. "Pinned to the jungle gym at a Mickey D's by a car full of ripped college kids." "Nice Wow." He seemed to be impressed. "How did you die?" I asked. It only seemed polite to reciprocate. "Ice pick to my left eye," he answered pointing to it. "I had the perp caught and cuffed, not sure how he came up with the pick." There was a period of awkward silence for a while after that. I mean, what do you say? So sorry we're both dead; what the hell do we do now? "This is a full-length novel (approximately 62,000 words). You can find out more about it at www.Shuff
A Novel of... Love, Life, & FamilyA Boy. Sixteen-year-old Aaron Wade. With his "second strike" with leukemia in remission and his health restored, the summer of 1977 feels like a turning point... until he starts to see a ghost in the Cedar City, Utah graveyard.A Girl. Seventeen-year-old Helena Monfort. She grew up too early, the tough girl with a bad reputation that just needs a friend.A Ghost: Lionel Malak. A simple man, he doesn't understand why someone would murder him, but longs for justice so his spirit can rest.After Helena escapes a date gone bad, a boy, a girl, and a ghost meet in the Cedar City graveyard under the stars. A chance meeting turns into a friendship, a murder investigation, and an exploration of life, death, friendship, and family you will never forget.From the creative mind of Robert J. McCarter, author of Shuffled Off, comes a novel of love, life, and family (with a ghost).
Explore the Curious and Confounding A gritty sci-fi / western featuring a genetically modified talking horse A karmic sci-fi apocalypse haunted by the "ghosts" of the dead A man who erases memories, desperate to remember something important An old-fashioned story of survival in space, with a twist These stories by Robert J. McCarter are different, strange. They are the anomalies, the divergences from his usual storytelling. Darker. Stranger. Weirder. Genres span the spectrum from a contemporary tale of a cowboy detective in Arizona hiding from his past, to a human judge in an AI controlled far-future sci-fi world, to a fantasy story about a man seeing silent ghosts in the forest who are trying to tell him something. Featuring Designation Null, a finalist in the Writers of the Future Contest, and twelve other stories, embark on a unique adventure with Anomalous Readings.
Part of a series that aims to place buildings within their historical context,his text considers Wright's Fallingwater, the Eames brother's Eames Housend Alvar Aalto's Villa Mairea. It includes specially produced technicalrawings that explain how the buildings were detailed and put together. Theext explains how together as innovative and experimental pieces, the houseepresent pinnacles of modern residential design.
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