Fallingwater, the Villa Mairea and the Eames House – by Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto and Charles and Ray Eames respectively – represent pinnacles of modern residential design. Fallingwater is one of Wright’s most inventive houses, showing him to be an architect of immense creativity and daring. Aalto drew on a deep understanding of vernacular building, classicism and modernism, and on a love of natural materials, to create the humane, rich and lyrical Villa Mairea. Charles and Ray Eames’ own house was assembled entirely from standardized industrial components composed with a sensitive irregularity. Together, these buildings represent the responses of some of the world’s most respected architects to the problems of...
ISBN: 0714838705
Издательство:
Phaidon
Дата выхода: март 2002
Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant, Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land, begin an extremely hazardous voyage to rid the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster. However, the "monster" turns out to be a giant submarine, commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo, by whom they are soon held captive. So begins not only one of the great adventure classics by Jules Verne, the `Father of Science Fiction`, but also a truly fantastic voyage from the lost city of Atlantis to the South Pole.
ISBN: 9781853260315
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2020
The critically acclaimed first novel from Jonathan Franzen, author of the prize winning and internationally bestselling, The Corrections. St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. No sooner has Jammu been installed, though, than the city`s leading citizens become embroiled in an all-pervasive political conspiracy. A classic of contemporary fiction, `The Twenty-Seventh City` shows us an ordinary metropolis turned inside out, and the American Dream unraveling into terror and dark comedy.
If you suddenly had a friend that only you could see or hear, what would you do? You could worry that your stressful life has tipped you over the edge and you have lost the plot, big could hide under your duvet, hoping that they would go You could have some You could make your ex boyfriend take you You could solve the mystery of the dragonfly necklace, make a fool of yourself many times, get your business back on its You could dance with a gorgeous man who just can`t resist and you could just discover the best friend you ever had.
ISBN: 978-0-552-77437-6
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
With a gorgeous new cover, this extensively illustrated book is a celebration of the V&A`s magnificent collection of 20th-century fashion. The latest title in the highly successful Fashion in Detail series, this book offers a detailed look at some of the most stunning garments in the collection. In meticulous detail, the book features line drawings of each garment`s structure and specially commissioned close-up photographs of each item`s most impressive aspects: fastenings, necklines, cuffs, hemlines, fringes, and more. Arranged thematically, the authors provide information about everything from seams, buttons and collars, to beads, tucks, and pleats. The result is a visual banquet of textures, patterns, and craftsmanship and an...
ISBN: 978-1-85177-571-2
Издательство:
V&A Publishing
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This is the story of Captain Nemo and his submarine, the Nautilus. One day, Nemo finds three men in the sea. For months the men live on the Nautilus. They find a town on the sea floor, beautiful coasts and a lot of gold. But they want to go home. Can they escape from Nemo’s submarine?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-7799-2
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
The New National Gallery, Berlin, Kimbell Art Museum and Museum fur Kunsthandwerk in Frankfurt are striking examples of modern museum design, built in three different decades. The Berlin Gallery was Mies van der Rohe’s last great building – a ‘temple’ to art in glass and steel. Louis Kahn’s Kimbell Art Museum is a building of severity and restraint, its architectural effects arising from rhythmical spaces and a refined treatment of materials. Richard Meier’s Museum fur Kunsthandwerk is a subtle and intricate building of shifted grids and superimposed planes – an interesting precursor to his Getty Center. By presenting these works together, one can examine the similarities and differences in approach taken by three renowned...
ISBN: 0714838780
Издательство:
Phaidon
Дата выхода: март 2002
"Twenty Years After", the sequel to "The Three Musketeers", is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure. Two decades have passed since the musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has weakened their resolve, and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and strategems still cry out for justice: civil war endangers the throne of France, while in England Cromwell threatens to send Charles I to the scaffold. Dumas brings his immortal quartet out of retirement to cross swords with time, the malevolence of men, and the forces of history. But their greatest test is a titanic struggle with the son of Milady, who wears the face of Evil.
ISBN: 978-0-19-953726-6
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: март 2012
A mysterious creature, larger and more rapid than a whale, has been haunting the deep: Professor Aronnax has been invited to join a task force to rid the seas of the monster. With him on the Abraham Lincoln are his ever-faithful servant, Conseil, and the harpooner Ned Land. Their glorious mission becomes a nightmare when they are thrown from their ship and taken aboard the "monster" itself: a man-made submarine - "Nautilus" - exploring the wonders of the underwater world. There they are the captives of the inscrutable Captain Nemo. Resigned to their fate, they are shown unimaginable wonders of the oceans: the reef of coral that formed a cemetery, the ice floes of the South Pole, the huge oyster and its priceless pearl, the volcanic...
ISBN: 978-0-14-062436-6
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The Museum of Modern Art in Gunma, surrounded by parkland, is the most complete realization by Isozaki of a conceptual approach to museum design. The Clore Gallery, London, was built to house the Tate Gallery’s superb collection of paintings by J M W Turner, while the Tate in Liverpool was created out of a magnificent 1845 dockside warehouse; both are examined here within the context of Stirling & Wilford’s ?uvre at the time of construction. James Ingo Freed’s United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is one of the late twentieth century’s most profound architectural statements, managing subtly and symbolically to disengage itself from the city where is stands. By considering these museums together, the reader can examine the...
ISBN: 0714838799
Издательство:
Phaidon
Дата выхода: март 2002
Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn are among the twentieth century’s most renowned and influential architectural figures. The Bauhaus Building, the Marseilles Unite d’Habitation and the Salk Institute are landmark buildings in the history of architecture – each is the product of great social vision and humanism, and provides an continuing source of inspiration for students and fellow architects. By studying these pivotal buildings together, the student and architecture enthusiast can examine the approaches of three different architects to building for specific communities, and analyse the qualities which have produced such enduring structures.
ISBN: 0714838683
Издательство:
Phaidon
Дата выхода: март 2002
This title includes an introduction by A. M. de Medeiros, University of Kent at Canterbury. A year after the publication of "The Three Musketeers", Alexandre Dumas produced a sequel worthy in every respect of the original. In "Twenty Years After" the much beloved D`Artaganan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis reunite to fight the forces of evil. In the original novel they defeated Milady, a formidable foe; now they need to face her vengeful son Mordaunt, as well as countering the machinations of the sinister Cardinal Mazarin. Their adventures also take them to England, where Cromwell is about to topple Charles I. Meanwhile, they must overcome the obstacles which the passing of time has placed between them. Rediscovering strength in unity, they...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-163-3
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
