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\"First-person chronicle of 16 buildings designed by New York-based architect James Stewart Polshek over the course of 50 years. Polshek is responsible for many of the most important public buildings in the United States: William J. Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Rose Center at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, etc. The 16 projects are covered in detail, from beginning of project through design decisions to finished building. Personal, anecdotal text. Heavily illustrated throughout\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Graphic design + architecture : a 20th century history : a guide to type, image, symbol, and visual storytelling in the modern world
This innovative, comprehensive work closely examines the relationship between typography, image, symbolism, and the built environment.
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The Architect's Perspective
In Copenhagen I was assigned to the Royal Academy of Fine Art on Kongens Nytorv, the elegant historic square close to the docks, bars, and cafés of Nyhavn, the gritty port area. Among these were the National Pensions Institute in Helsinki by Alvar Aalto, the Architects' House in Copenhagen by Nielsen, Nielsen and Nielsen (now 3XN), and the Søholm Row Houses in Klampenborg by Arne Jacobsen. The foundation originally intended to restore the northern townhouse-the one that belonged to Grace Rainey Rogers-and to create a new building connected to the mansion on the site of the southern structure. [...]our analysis exposed the challenges inherent in repurposing the residentially scaled rooms of the Rogers house.
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PRINTS OF THE CITY Respecting Landmarks
Photos by Jim Cummins-1) The addition to Banca Commerciale Italiana's landmark building at 1 William Street was handled by Gino Valle with sensitivity and grace. Here, the distinguished Milanese architect brings an Italian sensibility to the problem of fitting a building into an urban context as dense as that of Milan or Bologna. The stone corner facade continues the piano nobile - or grand main-floor - cornice of its traditional neighbor, but it does so in a flush modern idiom. A similarly flush polished granite course at each floor \"cements\" the marriage of old and new and represents a modern interpretation of the projecting string courses of the earlier building.
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Venturi: Style, Not Substance?
As with practically everything else, building in America today is in a deep crisis.
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PAVILIONS OF HARMONY
BUILDINGS FOR MUSIC The Architect, the Musician, and the Listener from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day. By Michael Forsyth. Illustrated. 371 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press. $30. MICHAEL FORSYTH'S ''Buildings for Music'' is a superbly illustrated and absorbing study of concert halls and opera houses built or conceived since the 17th century. It starts with the first rooms constructed in London particularly for the pleasure of ''lovers of musick'' and ends with 20th-century world's fair pavilions specially devised to house works by Edgard Varese and Karlheinz Stockhausen. In between it delivers a feast of revelations, like Friedrich Gilly's project for the Berlin Schauspielhaus, Ernst Haiger's Symphoniehaus or Harvey Lonsdale Elmes's titanic St. George's Hall in Liverpool, England, and of pleasures, like its thorough documentation of the Neues Gewandhaus in Leipzig, East Germany. Throughout it is sustained by an intelligent, engaging narrative remarkable for its knowledge of the history of musical composition and its command of the acoustical implications of design. Since Leo Beranek's ''Music, Acoustics and Architecture'' (1962) there are few books in its class.
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Once and future architecture
Saving the environment from the continued devastation is the singularly most dominant and vital issue affecting the future. Yeang discusses the need to redefine the perception of architecture, how it is to be designed, and how it should be function in the biosphere for a sustainable future.
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Practitioners grade the schools
Leading architects comment on the state of architectural learning.
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