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The is a monographic study of Sigurd Lewerentz 18851975 one of the major architects of the Swedish Modern School who developed his own distinctive response to the most important architectural movements of the 20th century This volume represents an original and comprehensive study in English with a full analysis of unbuilt projects as well as completed buildings such as the St Knut and St Gertrud Churches in the Malmo Cemetery 1916 the restoration of the Uppsala Cathedral 194755 and the St Peter Church in Klippan 19626 Sigurd Lewerentz was born in Sweden in 1885 He first studied engineering at the Polytechnic in Gotherburg and then architecture at the Art Academy in Stockholm After a period of apprenticeship in Germany he opened a studio with Thorsten Stubelius with whom he worked till 1917 Afterwards he continued his own practice often collaborating with other architects During his long career he realized many different projects and distinguished himself in landscape architecture with works such as the extraordinary project for Stockholm Cemetery realized in collaboration with Gunnar Asplund The first section of the volume includes a critical essay by Colin St John Wilson and a previously unpublished essay on the work of the Swedish master by Nicola Flora Paolo Giardiello and Gennaro Postiglione The central section contains a catalogue of Lewerentzs works about 150 designs and constructions in chronological order are presented through detailed descriptions and illustrations both photographs and drawings A complete list of works and a bibliography based on research in the archives of Stockholms Museum of Architecture conclude the volume
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Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz 18851975 was invited to design a church in the remote southern village of Klippan in 1962 at the age of 77 For architectural pilgrims the Church of St Petri Klippan has since become a counterpoint to the influential Chapel of Notre Dame at Ronchamp 1955 This volume documents Lewerentzs masterpiece
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From the turn of the century until his death in 1959 Frank Lloyd Wright produced an almost uninterrupted stream of projects that redefined the American architectural vision The most comprehensive summary and appraisal of Wrights achievement ever assembled with nearly 500 illustrations including 190 in color this volume presents an impressive array of works single family houses that provided images and models for generations of suburban buildings across the United States community solutions to housing for Depression America and an astonishing progression of landmark commercial and institutional structures In these pages appear Wrights most spectacular commissionsamong them Fallingwater the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum and Tokyos Imperial Hotelbut also a retrospective selection of other projects from all periods of his enormously productive career Photographs of actual buildings and of models plans and sketches as well as reproductions of the architects masterful drawings many previously unpublished are all included
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Antonio Gaudí 18521926 is one of the most admired architects of the twentieth century Even today some seventyfive years after Gaudís death his fanciful exuberant buildings define Barcelonas cityscape and continue to influence architects sculptors and designers Perhaps best known for the dynamic sculptural facades found on such buildings as the church of the Sagrada Familia and Casa Milà Gaudí is as much respected as a technological innovator as a daring stylist In this enlightening volume a concise knowledgeable text by the director of the Royal Gaudí Chair at the Polytechnical University of Catalonia Barcelona combines with striking images by a wellknown architectural photographer to provide a new perspective on Gaudís remarkable career The text covers the full range of his oeuvre describing early assignments in the 1870s as a draftsman for leading architects in Barcelona the innovative buildings he created for the Güell Palace and Estate daring new structural solutions at Bellesguard architecture inspired by nature at the Casa Calvet and in the Park Güell and the construction of his unfinished masterpiece the Church of the Sagrada Familia which occupied him until his death The author traces all the influences that led to his definitive style from his fascination with the Orient and neogothicism to his affinity for naturalism and specific geometric forms Brilliantly illustrated this incisive overview of Gaudís visionary work is ideal for those who delight in his architecture as well as those who look forward to traveling to Spain to see his monumental legacy
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Heinrich Bullinger the friend and successor of Huldrych Zwingli led the Zurich church for almost fifty years after Zwinglis death and was largely responsible for the construction of the Reformed church in the sixteenth century Nevertheless Bullinger has often been called the forgotten Reformer of the sixteenth century Architect of Reformation is the first broad introduction to Bullingers life and theology available in English The book features an international collection of the worlds leading Bullinger and Reformation scholars addressing such categories as theology spirituality ecclesiology humanism politics and family At the fivehundredyear anniversary of Bullingers birth Architect of Reformation gives the oftenoverlooked Swiss Reformer his longoverdue and muchdeserved recognition as a leading figure among second generation Reformers
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Palladio is the most imitated architect in history His buildings have been copied all over the Western world from Leningrad to Philadelphia and his ideas on proportion are still current nearly four hundred years after his death In this the first full account of his career to be published in English Professor James Ackerman investigates the reasons for his enormous and enduring success He presents him in his historical setting but is constantly alert to his relevance for us today
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This biography of Stalins Apparatus of Fear Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich details the atrocities he perpetrated his position within the Soviet hierarchy the truth behind Stalins death and AntiParty conspiracies and other horrors Russians were forced to suffer
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Heinrich Bullinger the friend and successor of Huldrych Zwingli led the Zurich church for almost fifty years after Zwinglis death and was largely responsible for the construction of the Reformed church in the sixteenth century Nevertheless Bullinger has often been called the forgotten Reformer of the sixteenth century Architect of Reformation is the first broad introduction to Bullingers life and theology available in English The book features an international collection of the worlds leading Bullinger and Reformation scholars addressing such categories as theology spirituality ecclesiology humanism politics and family At the fivehundredyear anniversary of Bullingers birth Architect of Reformation gives the oftenoverlooked Swiss Reformer his longoverdue and muchdeserved recognition as a leading figure among second generation Reformers
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Frank Lloyd Wright 18671959 is unquestionably Americas most celebrated architect Even today almost forty years after his death he continues to tower over the architectural landscape In fact his career was so long and his accomplishments so varied it can be difficult still to grasp the full range of Wrights achievement In this refreshing new study Wright scholar Kathryn Smith does just that exploring the grace and beauty found in all facets of Wrights work from office desks and chairs to his first residential commissions from magazine cover designs to major public buildings The concise text and brilliant color photographs chart Wrights entire career beginning with his apprenticeship to Adler and Sullivan before the turn of the century Readers witness the Prairie period Wrights years in Japan and California his major designs of the late 1920s and 1930s his Usonian houses and the monumental late works of his last decades Smith shows examples of Wrights drawings furniture and decorative arts too supplementing our understanding of Wrights aesthetic The book concludes with a glimpse at the architects seldomseen collection of Asian art which once comprised tens of thousands of pieces a source of much inspiration and edification for the architect and his students and a key to understanding Wrights views on art and nature Here is a broad portrait of the master builder who sought the title greatest architect of all time Although it may never be possible to fully assess Wrights legacy Kathryn Smiths authoritative book is a fitting testament to his lasting genius
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It was once common to discuss the work of Charles Platt 18611933 alongside that of McKim Mead amp White but by the time of his death Platts name had already fallen out of favor under the influence of modern movement critics This longoverdue reevaluation of Platts career shows that in the first decade of this century Platts office was one of the New York firms that dominated the general development of American architecture and his country houses and Georgian style mansions were regarded as the best American examples of their genre He led the American revival of the formal garden in the 1890s and is credited with having introduced the American villa theory in his book Italian Gardens 1894 Morgan notes that Platt first achieved a reputation for his accomplished landscape paintings and etchings and his conception of building and garden design grew out of this training rather than the formal BeauxArts curriculum subscribed to by most of his successful contemporaries The book treats Platts work in five chapters his study of art at the National Academy of Design in New York and in Paris where he exhibited in salons and garnered awards as a landscape painter the impact of his work on Italian gardens his largescale country estates and domestic buildings where the Italian precedents were adjusted to local conditions his public architecture and urban commissions which include the freer Art Gallery in Washington DC the Vincent Astor estate in New York and the campuses of the University of Illinois the Connecticut College for Women Deerfield Academy and Philips Academy in Andover Keith Morgan is Professor of Architecture in the American Studies Program at Boston University Charles Platt is included in the Architectural History Foundations American Monograph Series Previously announced
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The untold story of Michelangelos final decadesand his transformation into one of the greatest architects of the Italian RenaissanceAs he entered his seventies the great Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo despaired that his productive years were past Anguished by the death of friends and discouraged by the loss of commissions to younger artists this supreme painter and sculptor began carving his own tomb It was at this unlikely moment that fate intervened to task Michelangelo with the most ambitious and daunting project of his long creative lifeMichelangelo Gods Architect is the first book to tell the full story of Michelangelos final two decades when the peerless artist refashioned himself into the master architect of St Peters Basilica and other major buildings When the Pope handed Michelangelo control of the St Peters project in 1546 it was a study in architectural mismanagement plagued by flawed design and faulty engineering Assessing the situation with his uncompromising eye and razorsharp intellect Michelangelo overcame the furious resistance of Church officials to persuade the Pope that it was time to start overIn this richly illustrated book leading Michelangelo expert William Wallace sheds new light on this least familiar part of Michelangelos biography revealing a creative genius who was also a skilled engineer and enterprising businessman The challenge of building St Peters deepened Michelangelos faith Wallace shows Fighting the intrigues of Church politics and his own declining health Michelangelo became convinced that he was destined to build the largest and most magnificent church ever conceived And he was determined to live long enough that no other architect could alter his design
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Many years before his death in 1948 legendary golf course architect Donald Ross wrote a book that was never published Within the manuscript Ross offered many of his thoughts on the game that he so dearly loved In the mid1990s the book was miraculously rediscovered and published to great acclaim Golf Has Never Failed Meis an insightful look at the game by one of its most famous and beloved people And what may surprise you is that many of the astute observations that he made so long ago still hold true today
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Through a selection of primary and secondary sources Death by Design examines the uses of technology during the Holocaust andnbsp the specific ways in which scientists architects medical professionals businessmen and engineers participated in the planning and operation of the concentration and extermination camps that were the foundation of the final solutionnbsp The book discusses the overriding intellectual ethical and philosophical implications of the Nazis use of science and technology in their killing operations
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nbspnbspnbspnbsp The most pivotal and yet least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wrights celebrated life involves the brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by fire of Taliesin his landmark residence near Spring Green Wisconsin Unaccountably the details of that shocking crime have been largely ignored by Wrights legion of biographersa historical and cultural gap that is finally addressed in William Drennans exhaustively researched Death in a Prairie House Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murdersnbspnbspnbspnbsp In response to the scandal generated by his open affair with the protofeminist and free love advocate Mamah Borthwick Cheney Wright had begun to build Taliesin as a refuge and love cottage for himself and his mistress both married at the time to othersnbspnbspnbspnbspnbsp Conceived as the apotheosis of Wrights prairie house style the original Taliesin would stand in all its isolated glory for only a few months before the bloody slayings that rocked the nation and reduced the structure itself to a smoking hullnbspnbspnbspnbsp Supplying both a gripping mystery story and an authoritative portrait of the artist as a young man Drennan wades through the myths surrounding Wright and the massacre casting fresh light on the formulation of Wrights architectural ideology and the cataclysmic effects that the Taliesin murders exerted on the fabled architect and on his subsequent designsnbspBest Books for General Audiences selected by the American Association of School Librarians and Outstanding Book selected by the Public Library Association
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Quite possibly the most dangerous and intelligent member of the Nazi hierarchy Joseph Goebbelss flair for propaganda and spectacular organization ensured the fuhrers rise to power As founder of the Reich Chamber of Culture gauleiter of Berlin and architect of complex machinery of modern totalitarian propaganda Goebbels is considered one of the most evil figures of the twentieth century It was through his understanding of the instruments of public enlightenment that the dictatorship was built and maintained Through interviews with his friends and family and with information from his own unpublished diary a remarkable picture of Goebbels emerges
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