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Avenue of Dreams volume 1
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Lucy Banning shakes up social norms by secretly attending university and trying to avoid marrying the rich banker that her family has picked for her, instead setting her sights on a young architect who is working on plans for the 1893 World's Fair.
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Your outlook on life is so different from mine that I can hardly imagine you being built of the same stuff as myself. Yet I venture to put my difficulty before you. It is, of course, no question of mental grasp or capacity or artistic endowment. I am, so far as these are concerned, merely the man in the street, the averagely endowed and the ordinarily educated. I call myself a Puritan and a Christian. I run continually against walls of convention,...
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In this personal and revealing book, Anthony Poon takes us on a creative journey that begins with his re-envisioning of a seaside public space as a very young architect. Poon has designed hundreds of buildings across the United States and internationally, from eco-friendly homes to public schools, from intimate retail venues and restaurants to sports arenas, from university housing to retreats and places of worship. Sticks & Stones / Steel & Glass...
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José Antonio Coderch es el gran olvidado de la arquitectura española, pese a que su obra, a la cabeza de la modernidad, dejó impronta en ciudades como Madrid o Barcelona.
Este libro es una aproximación a su figura a partir de las personas que lo conocieron, un relato coral que configura un archivo vivo de su legado y arroja luz sobre su compleja personalidad mediante entrevistas con personajes clave del mundo de la política, la cultura y la arquitectura...
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Este libro presenta dos ensayos que buscan ampliar el horizonte de qué significa la modernidad y la arquitectura moderna en Colombia, y a la vez precisar su sentido de cómo acotar el término arquitectura moderna y las categorías que han sido acogidas en la tradición de la teoría, la crítica y la historia de la arquitectura colombiana.
El ensayo sobre Gabriel Serrano Busca definir la ideología que definió su práctica arquitectónica desde...
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AOT no es solo una sigla para la arquitectura peruana contemporánea; durante más de cuarenta años probablemente fue la más organizada oficina de arquitectos que tuvo el Perú. Sus obras tuvieron una singular importancia, como en el caso del Aeropuerto Internacional Jorge Chávez, el edificio de Química Suiza o la sede de la IBM, entre otras edificaciones de las que el presente libro da cuenta.
Formado por los arquitectos Carlos Arana Holder,...
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One of the famed architect's earliest published works, the Wasmuth drawings capture Wright's first great experiments in organic design and thought. These 100 plates were reproduced from a rare 1910 first edition. The full-page illustrations depict plans for homes, banks, cottages, offices, temples, and Wright's own studio. Introduction and annotations by Wright.
50) Retribution
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Retribution takes place in Sacramento, California, in the late 1990s. The story details the crises the main character, Werner Manheim-the sixty-five-year-old owner of the largest structural engineering firm in the city-goes through personally and professionally after losing an arbitration proceeding to the architects GBA, who hired his firm on a new local high school project. His maneuverings to overcome the effects of he and his wife, Georgina, having...
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What do Prague, London, New York and Tehran have in common? Award-winning architect Martin Holub has lived, designed buildings and enriched lives in all these places.
Martin's Scribbles is a travel memoir, meets architect biography, meets lifetime reflection. Readers are taken on a playful romp through the latter twentieth-century to the present, as seen through the eyes of Holub – from a schoolboy in Czechoslovakia with an imprisoned mother, to...
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The story of Frank Lloyd Wright's life is no less astounding than his greatest architectural works. He enmeshed himself eagerly in myth and hearsay and revelled in the extravagance of his creative persona. Throughout his long career, Wright strongly resisted the suggestion that his accomplishments owed anything to earthly influences. As much as he wanted his achievements to be recognised, he wanted them to be unaccountable — but they are not. This...
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Widowed architect Hugo Grey is stunned. His late great-aunt has bequeathed her house to Alice Walters--a complete stranger!--with the stipulation that Alice must recruit Hugo's services to help convert the house into a butterfly center. Clearly his great-aunt knew something he doesn't, because he and Alice clash over everything, which makes his attraction to the captivatingly feisty and beguiling butterfly expert even harder to ignore...
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An extraordinary memoir of fortune, fraud, and the master of modern art.
Art dealer Stan Lauryssens made millions in modern art, but he sold only one name: Salvador Dalí. The surrealist painter's work was a hot commodity for the newly rich, investors, and shady businessmen looking to launder their black-market cash. Stan didn't mind looking the other way; he just hoped the buyers would look the other way as well. The artworks he sold came from some...
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Ladies of liberty volume 2
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When her father is falsely imprisoned for slave trading, Catherine Newbury finds her English world turned upside down. Whisked away with trusted servants to America, she is forced to disguise her past and create a completely new life. Taking on a servant's last name, Catherine becomes an accomplished seamstress whose dress designs are sought throughout Philadelphia. Carter Danby, an architect who was touring England, met Catherine at a party in her...
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"Working at her late ex-husband's company, socialite Astrid Sterling finds new purpose. If only star architect Clay Morgan would give her a chance instead of the cold shoulder. But a truce that explodes into blinding passion leaves Astrid breathless--and torn. The single dad already has trust issues--and Astrid has a secret that could shatter everything they've built..."--Back cover.
57) Leaving: a novel
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Former college sweethearts reconnect decades later after each has married, raised a family and forged careers and embark on an intense affair that forces them to confront the moral responsibilities of their love for their families and each other.
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Actrice, chanteuse, animatrice, professeur d'art dramatique et communicatrice hors pair, Ghislaine Paradis, dans cette autobiographie captivante, nous entraîne avec enthousiasme au coeur de sa vie et de sa passion d'artiste. 1ier prix de Conservatoire , elle est d'abord connue pour son rle de Nicole dans la populaire émission de télévision " Quelle Famille " à Radio-Canada. Elle sera aussi Hélène dans " À Coeur Battant " qui l'emmènera au...
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"An engaging, kid-friendly exploration of America's leading architect and his work This revised and updated edition of a longstanding classic, Frank Lloyd Wright for Kids, details the life, times, and work of the celebrated architect. Through simple, kid-friendly prose and anecdotes, author Kathleen Thorne-Thomsen describes the influences of Wright's Wisconsin childhood filled with nature, music, and close family ties; his struggles to find work as...
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Este libro es una biografía elegíaca del poeta, en el que Rilke habla a través de sus cartas, enlazadas artesanalmente por la autora. Se trata de un poeta que parte en busca de su propia voz, su sí mismo, en una enconada lucha con su propia naturaleza. Lou Andreas-Salomé muestra el revés de la trama de la creación, el riesgo vital que supone encontrar al poeta en cada uno de nosotros y, a la vez, el poder salvador que entraña. En un mundo...
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