Surprising juxtapositions between high elegance and downtown funkiness -- a choreography of bright colors and shapes, contrasting textures and patterns, theatrical lighting and quirky found objects -- make up the world of Alan Buchsbaum. An imaginative architect and designer, he was deemed one of the originators of the supergraphics look of the ...
During the period before World War I, the German Werkbund tried to forge new theories of architecture and design in the light of the technological and economic developments of modernity. This work explores the ideology and aesthetic positions in the debates among those who comprised the Werkbund.
Art historians and critics have long found inspiration in the works of Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, Ernst Bloch and Siegfried Kracauer. Indeed, these figures have been crucial to the recent theoretical developments and self-consciousness in the discipline. For their part, the early German Critical Theorists had a sophisticated sense of the ...
El estudio de Venturi, Scott Brown and associates ha defendido siempre la arquitectura como fruto de un trabajo colectivo, valorando de forma muy especial la contribucion de numerosos colaboradores en todas sus obras y proyectos. Esta edicion abundantemente ilustrada y documentada ofrece cerca de 100 obras y proyectos nacidos de la colaboracion ...
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: American Council of Learned Societies
Date Published: 1995
Description: Very Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have light edge rubbing. 52 pp. Contents: Cummings, "Female Poets of the First World War: A Study in Diversity for the Fifth Grade Social Studies Curriculum"; Henderson, "Ghosts Among Us/Ancestral Voices: 'What's Past is Prologue'"; Lown, "Sestina for a Grande Dame"; Schwartz, "Poetry from the Far Side"; Soble, "The Overwhelming Question: Integrating the ACLS Curriculum Proiect 'Teaching for Understanding' and ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Verlag der Kunst, Dresden
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9789057051166ISBN:9057051168
Description: Overseas Edition. 8vo, paperback. Fine condition. German text, stiff paper covers, 368 pages, illustrated, contents bright & clean, binding tight, covers fine with faintest smudging. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Museum Der Dinge Werkbundarchiv Berlin & Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum Hagen
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9789057051166ISBN:9057051168
Description: Fine. 8vo. 368 pages, illustrated. Unused, a new copy. German text. read more
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