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An exploration of Crowley's relationship with the United States *; Details Crowley's travels, passions, literary and artistic endeavors, sex magick, and psychedelic experimentation *; Investigates Crowley's undercover intelligence adventures that actively promoted U.

THE FIRST IN-DEPTH LOOK AT THE ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGNS OF "e;AMERICA'S FAVORITE ARCHITECT"e; .

Philip Webb was a British architect known as a founder of the Arts and Crafts movement and also a key member of the Pre-Raphaelite circle.

For many, the idea of prefab housing may bring to mind trailers and other less desirable images of home life.

In this book Yousuf Karsh, whose great photographic portraits have revealed so vividly the outstanding personalities of our time, writes about his own life and work.

New edition of Buckminster Fuller's first work published in 1938, which was promoted by Albert Einstein.

The description for this book, Robert Maillart's Bridges: The Art of Engineering, will be forthcoming.

Shines a light on Detroit architect Wirt Rowland who, until now, has largely slipped into obscurity.

Luke Him Sau/Lu Qianshou (1904 1991) is best known internationally and in China as the architect of the iconic Bank of China Headquarters in Shanghai.

In 1963, British inventor Alex Moulton (1920-2012) introduced an innovative compact bicycle.

Regarded as one of the greatest film composers of all time, Bernard Herrmann was responsible for some of the most memorable music in film.

Within the contours of TENDER lie field notes from a life lived across multiple affinities, kinships, and desires.

A biographical history of Aleister Crowley's activities in Berlin from 1930 to 1932 as Hitler was rising to power *; Examines Crowley's focus on his art, his work as a spy for British Intelligence, his colorful love life and sex magick exploits, and his contacts with magical orders *; Explores Crowley's relationships with Berlin's artists, filmmakers, writers, and performers such as Christopher Isherwood, Jean Ross, and Aldous Huxley *; Recounts the fates of Crowley's friends and colleagues under the Nazis as well as what happened to Crowley's lost art exhibition Gnostic poet, painter, writer, and magician Aleister Crowley arrived in Berlin on April 18, 1930.

"El París de Le Corbusier" analiza las relaciones duales entre la ciudad y el arquitecto: la dialéctica entre la ciudad real - el París donde vivía- y la ciudad ideal - el París abstracto que proyectaba-.

In 1926 Barry Dierks, a young American architect, arrived in Paris and fell in love with France.

in 1923/24 Henry Fruges, a Bordeaux industrialist commissioned Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret with a "e;small workers housing estate"e; in Lege and a garden city in Pessac, comprising 130 to 150 houses with shops.

This book addresses the work of architect John Dalton (1927-2007), an important voice in mid-century modernism in Australia whose work, despite his being exhibited and published internationally and also winning several awards for his designs, is woefully little known.

La construcción de edificios está especialmente implicada en las emisiones de dióxido de carbono, y es conveniente que su diseño y construcción sea un factor primordial en la ofensiva por mitigar los efectos del cambio climático.

Widely regarded as one of the most significant prophets of modern architecture, Adolf Loos was a celebrity in his own day.

Soon after 1900 in both North America and Europe the evolution from the tradition of Mediterranean and Gallic architectural styles to modernism began.

The first publication to catalog the complete works of architect and arts advocate Alfred Preis, a Viennese modernist who fled Nazi-occupied Austria and transformed regional Hawaiian architecture, with his best-known project being the USS ArizonaMemorial at Pearl Harbor.

Featuring over 200 photographs, this stunning book by renowned television historian Dan Cruickshank tells the history of architecture through the stories of 100 iconic buildingsJourneying through time and place, from the ancient Egyptian pyramids to the soaring skyscrapers of Manhattan, renowned architectural historian Dan Cruickshank explores the most impressive and characterful creations in world architecture.

Frank Lloyd Wright's groundbreaking designs, innovative construction techniques, and inviting interiors continue to astound and inspire generations of architects and nonarchitects alike.

Argues that the fundamental goals of architecture remain valid despite constant changes in human activities, technologies, and styles.

Artistic Migration: Reframing Post-War Italian Art, Architecture, and Design in Brazil investigates a selection of works by Italian artists and architects, and an art critic and dealer, who immigrated to Brazil after World War II, and were involved in the first activities and opportunities created by the Sao Paulo Museum of Art (MASP).

Best-selling author Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military strategy and then employing state of the art left-right brain scientific research to explain his universal genius.

Identified as "e;the first designer of what would become known as Swedish Modern"e; by the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.

John Bramblitt makes his living as a visualartist.

The classic book on William Blake as prophet of the New AgeWilliam Blake (1757-1827) inhabited a remarkable inner world, one that he brought vividly to life in his poetry, painting, and printmaking.

This book traces the historical identity of Kashmir within the context of Islamic religious architecture between early fourteenth and mid-eighteenth century.

A glimpse into the mind and life of one of the most creative and enigmatic visionaries of our time, filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky *; Retraces the spiritual and mystical path Jodorowsky has followed since childhood, vividly repainting events from the perspective of an unleashed imagination *; Explores the development of the author's psychomagic and metagenealogy practices via his realization that all problems are rooted in the family tree *; Includes photos from Jodorowsky's appearance at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and from the film based on this book, which debuted at Cannes Retracing the spiritual and mystical path he has followed since childhood, Alejandro Jodorowsky re-creates the incredible adventure of his life as an artist, filmmaker, writer, and therapist--all stages on his quest to push back the boundaries of both imagination and reason.

In 1984, Giovanni Chiaramonte photographed Alvaro Siza's building in Berlin, on whose facade some young people had written Bonjour Tristesse.

November 1891, the heart of Gilded Age Manhattan.

There is no shortage of books about Le Corbusier, or Mies van der Rohe, or De Stijl.

Este libro, fruto de un trabajo de documentación de la vida y obra del doctor arquitecto Pelayo Llarena Murua, quien fue uno de los pioneros de la arquitectura moderna guatemalteca y del urbanismo, presenta la digitalización del material gráfico inédito (en su gran mayoría) de su archivo personal.

Letters to Architects presents letters addressed to architects practicing throughout the world, many of them contemporaries with Frank Lloyd Wright during the first half of the twentieth century.

Material Theories takes a radically new approach to well-established thinking on nineteenth-century architecture and design by investigating Gottfried Semper's classic ideas about dressing, metamorphosis of material, and cultural development, culminating in his two-volume publication Style.

Through the 1940s and 1950s, PAGON (Progressive Architects Group Oslo Norway) was an alliance of young CIAM-affiliated Norwegian architects known for their innovative joint projects.

In Two Minds is the first comprehensive biography of Jonathan Miller the story of one of post-war Britain's most intriguing polymaths.

This book considers the architect Le Corbusier's encounters with Australia and New Zealand as a two-way exchange, showing the impact of his ideas and projects on architects of the region whilst also revealing counterinfluences on Le Corbusier in his post-war career that were activated by his contacts.

A must-read for those seeking to understand the intersection of politics and art in a pivotal moment of European history.

Addison Mizner's Mediterranean-style mansions are much-admired Florida icons, where even today you can find many homes modeled with stucco walls and tiled roofs.

Among the general public, Frank Lloyd Wright remains the best-known American architect of the twentieth century.

The description for this book, Robert Maillart's Bridges: The Art of Engineering, will be forthcoming.