Monacelli press jun 2020 (4 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'As pleasurable in an easy chair as on foot.' - Library Journal'Two ingredients make this title as pleasurable in an easy chair as on foot: the author's exceptional sense of how to capture the particular personality of a building in words and images and [the] book designer's skilled composition of typography, color, and image.' - Library JournalWalking Broadway encapsulates the architectural history of Manhattan with fourteen walks that guide readers along New York's most famous streetWalking Broadway offers readers an architectural tour of the entire length of Broadway from Bowling Green to the Harlem River. Through fourteen structured walks the book not only presents the history of New York's most famous avenue, but also explores its architecture in depth, block by block, building by building.This is a book about what can be seen and experienced on Broadway today. Buildings are chosen for discussion first and foremost because they are interesting to look at. In a relaxed and engaging style, the author presents the building's story, explores the reasons why it is there, and explains why it looks the way it does.Along the way, the reader not only has the chance to discover fascinating and unusual buildings, but also gains a comprehensive understanding of the historic, social, economic, and political forces which shaped Broadway's growth and character. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -'As pleasurable in an easy chair as on foot.' - Library Journal'Two ingredients make this title as pleasurable in an easy chair as on foot: the author's exceptional sense of how to capture the particular personality of a building in words and images and [the] book designer's skilled composition of typography, color, and image.' - Library JournalWalking Broadway encapsulates the architectural history of Manhattan with fourteen walks that guide readers along New York's most famous streetWalking Broadway offers readers an architectural tour of the entire length of Broadway from Bowling Green to the Harlem River. Through fourteen structured walks the book not only presents the history of New York's most famous avenue, but also explores its architecture in depth, block by block, building by building.This is a book about what can be seen and experienced on Broadway today. Buildings are chosen for discussion first and foremost because they are interesting to look at. In a relaxed and engaging style, the author presents the building's story, explores the reasons why it is there, and explains why it looks the way it does.Along the way, the reader not only has the chance to discover fascinating and unusual buildings, but also gains a comprehensive understanding of the historic, social, economic, and political forces which shaped Broadway's growth and character.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 224 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A long-sought reprint of this classic of architectural history and criticism, surveying a movement that would inspire architects, fantasists, and filmmakers alikeIt is an architectural concept as alluring as it is elusive, as futuristic as it is primordial. Megastructure is what it sounds like: a vastly scaled edifice that can contain potentially countless uses, contexts, and adaptations. Theorized and briefly experimented with in built form in the 1960s, megastructures almost as quickly went out of fashion in the profession. But Reyner Banham's 1976 book compiled the origin stories and ongoing mythos of this visionary movement, seeking to chart its lively rise, rapid fall, and ongoing meaning.Megastructure: Urban Futures of the Recent Past is part of the recent surge in attention to this quixotic form, of which some examples were built but to this day remains - decades after its codification - more of a poetic idea than a real architectural type. Banham, among the most gifted and incisive architectural critics and historians of his time, sought connections between theoretical origins in Le Corbusier's more starry-eyed drawings to the flurry of theories by the Japanese Metabolist architects, to less intentional examples in military architecture, industry, infrastructure, and the emerging instances in pop culture and art. Had he written the book a few years later he would find an abundance of examples in speculative art and science fiction cinema, mediums where it continues to provoke wonder to this day.A long-sought study by an author who combined imagination, wit, and pioneering scholarship, the republication of Megastructure is an opportunity for scholars and laypeople alike to return to the origins of this fantastic urban idea. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -'As pleasurable in an easy chair as on foot.' - Library Journal'Two ingredients make this title as pleasurable in an easy chair as on foot: the author's exceptional sense of how to capture the particular personality of a building in words and images and [the] book designer's skilled composition of typography, color, and image.' - Library JournalWalking Broadway encapsulates the architectural history of Manhattan with fourteen walks that guide readers along New York's most famous streetWalking Broadway offers readers an architectural tour of the entire length of Broadway from Bowling Green to the Harlem River. Through fourteen structured walks the book not only presents the history of New York's most famous avenue, but also explores its architecture in depth, block by block, building by building.This is a book about what can be seen and experienced on Broadway today. Buildings are chosen for discussion first and foremost because they are interesting to look at. In a relaxed and engaging style, the author presents the building's story, explores the reasons why it is there, and explains why it looks the way it does.Along the way, the reader not only has the chance to discover fascinating and unusual buildings, but also gains a comprehensive understanding of the historic, social, economic, and political forces which shaped Broadway's growth and character. 224 pp. Englisch.…