In 1936, John Nicholas and Anne Brown commissioned Richard Neutra, the great Vienna-born architect, to design a summer house for them on Fishers Island, New York. Completed in 1938, Windshield (named for its large expanses of glass) was Neutra's most significant residential building outside Los Angeles and the only one on the East Coast. A ...
When the Empire State building in New York was built 70 years ago, 3500 workers were employed on the site. One of them was 16-year-old Joe Carbonelli, whose job it was to carry drinking water up to the other workers. This is his story of how in only 18 months the world's tallest skyscraper was built. People called it the eighth Wonder of the World ...
At the 1889 World's Fair in Paris, the newly erected Eiffel Tower became one of the first icons of illuminated architecture, a nocturnal "lighthouse." It was not until decades later, in the 1920s, when a building's evening fagade became a central issue for residential and commercial architects, who began to look for avant-garde and aesthetically ...
This anthology presents a range of interdisciplinary explorations into the urban environment, through film, photography, digital imagery, maps and signage. Contributors to this work examine our fascination with the city through the history of art and architecture, urban studies, environmental studies, cultural geography and screen studies. ...
Applications of communication networks lead to radical changes in human life. Fieldbus technology is part of this development acting in close connection to systems control and in critical domains. Equipped with sensitive sensors, fieldbus technology becomes the backbone of many processes of our daily life. In automation technology, fieldbus ...
The art of architectural floodlighting, which first came into existence at the beginning of the 20th century, has seen a world-wide renaissance in more recent years. This is an in-depth and illustrated account of the history of architectural illumination in American and European cities. While the work serves as a historical survey of architectural ...
Through a series of contributions from major scholars, this book examines visionary architecture in films by focusing on original set designs from filmmakers across Europe and the United States. The book begins with medievalizing, expressionistic and psychological sets for films, such as "The Cabinet of Dr Caligari" and "Algol", and moves on to ...
This volume contains some 50 papers from the 4th IFAC conference on Fieldbus Systems and Their Applications (FeT'2001) held in Nancy, France, 15 - 16 November 2001. This conference was, for the first time, sponsored by IFAC with previous conferences being held in Vienna (Austria) in 1995 and 1997 and Magdeburg (Germany) in 1999. The programme ...
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