Shubert howard (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Despite the legendary reputations of Madison Square Garden, Maple Leaf Gardens, and the Montreal Forum, skating rinks and hockey arenas may be North America's most overlooked cultural buildings. Architecture on Ice reveals the central role they have played in influencing urban, social, and political life across the continent. In the first book to chart the development of skating rinks and arenas from their origins as simple wooden sheds to today's fully wired, multi-purpose entertainment complexes, Howard Shubert examines how these buildings have been adapted to seasonal change and to a multitude of uses besides skating - from political rallies to rock concerts - and how these adaptations, in turn, have transformed skating, curling, and hockey. Revealing the ways in which arenas are sites where sport, culture, and commerce intersect, Architecture on Ice describes four distinct phases in the development of these buildings: the early rinks and arenas of the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, the Golden Era of 1920-31, the building boom in postwar arenas from 1960-83, and the postmodern hockey complexes built between 1990 and 2010. Lavishly illustrated with surprising, amusing, and previously unpublished images, Architecture on Ice explains how the construction of buildings engineered the way recreational activities are performed and experienced.…

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing, fanning, inscriptions, margin notes, yellowing, staining on edge or cover or pages, bumps, scuffs, etc etc (sometimes multiple of these). It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. ix, 277 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 33 cm. Contents: Architect of radical memory / Robert Enright An architecture of listening / Howard Shubert Sculpture, meaning and identity / Geoffrey Smedley.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Pages 113-335. Numerous black and white plates. "Contains articles on works in the collections of the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Sheds new light on the careers of the designer and publisher Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau (1520-86), and architects Louis-Pierre Baltard (1764-1846), Jean-Baptiste Rondelet (1743-1829), Ernest Cormier (1885-1980), Lloyd Wright (1890-1978), Le Corbusier (1887-1965), and the photographer Alexander Henderson (1831-1913)." - from title page. Text in English and French. Bits of soiling to back cover otherwise clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy.…