Walking Through Le Corbusier: A Tour of His Masterworks

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A tour in words and photographs that presents a completely new way of experiencing the architecture of this modern master.

Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is an icon of twentieth-century architecture, his status a reflection of his capacity to endow architecture with an expression that evokes the spirit of his epoch.

This book features some of Le Corbusier's most important European buildings, complemented by others that are less well known. The photographs, taken sequentially by the author, provide a narrative description of each building and are supported by literary and graphic data that provide a single conceptual and visual argument.

Each "walking through" is accompanied by an introduction that brings together the architect's main ideas about the building; at least one floor plan, which pinpoints the position from which the photograph has been taken; phrases by Le Corbusier relating directly to what is shown in the image; drawings by the architect of certain details; and images from other Le Corbusier buildings that enlarge on the discussion or elucidate a point. Over 300 color illustrations.

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Treading lightly on Le Corbusier.......2006-05-02

It is nice to see that Le Corbusier is "cool" again. However, this is probably one of the "thinnest" books on the master architect, who probably did more than any other architect to define Modernism. For those who want more in the way of narrative I would suggest Peter Frampton's or William Curtis' monographs on Le Corbusier, which provide ample illustrations and a more in-depth analysis of his work. Better yet, check out his Complete Works, which will give you valuable insights into this great architect.

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Kenoward - a Personal View : Inspired by Light

Inspired By Light

Ken Howard a Personal View: Inspired by Light (Atelier Series)
Ken Howard
Manufacturer: David & Charles Publishers
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0715312375

Book Description

Ken Howard is renowned for his ability to portray the subtle nuances of light. Here he explains how light has been a never-ending source of inspiration for his art and reveals some of the secrets of his craft. Illustrated throughout with the artist's wonderfully evocative sketches, watercolors and oil paintings, this is a unique insight into the work of this internationally acclaimed artist.

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Kenoward - a Personal View : Inspired by Light.......2005-09-05

Ken Howard gives an excellent overview of his career as an artist, and superb insights into his working methods and motivation. There are no step-by-step exercises, which generally stiffle creativity. It is a very good book for all artists.

Inspired By Light.......2003-02-28

Excellent book for painter's of all levels.Ken Howard is a master in his use of shadow and light.This book contains lots of paintings,including the figure and is written in such a way that you feel Ken Howard is talking to you about painting ,his art,and that you have just been visiting his studio.

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Spot on!

Great photos, not enough technical info

Photographing buildings inside and out
Norman McGrath
Manufacturer: Whitney Library of Design
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0823074137

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Spot on!.......2001-03-29

Norman McGrath's PHOTOGRAPHING BUILDINGS INSIDE AND OUT (2ND EDITITON) is an excellent source for information. While view cameras are the way to go, they are not always the most convienient. McGrath discusses equipment selection - camera, lenses, tripods, heads, meters, filters and film. His case studies (taken from his portfolio) show a body of work and what was done to due to the existing conditions: tight spaces, different light temperatures, auxiliary lighting, etc. He also discussed different perspectives of the same room/building, as well as prop suggestions to complement the subject.

It has been said that "Architecture is in the details" so, too, is it with photography. His "numerous case studies to illustrate his methods and techniques... clearly explains his objectives for each shoot and demonstrates how, with attention to the smallest deatails, he achieves successful results every time." (Excerpt taken from the back cover.)

As a designer, I found it very helpful in photographing my own work for my portfolio as well as capturing the spirit of the place. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in photographing architecture and/or interiors for fun or profit.

Anthony

Great photos, not enough technical info.......1999-12-03

McGrath is one of the most well-published architectural photographers of recent memory, and this book does a great job of highlighting his work in a variety of situations. Unfortunately, this book tends at times to become more of McGrath's portfolio and less a guide to the art and technique of architectural photography. Worth getting just to look at the photos, but also get either Gerry Kopelow's or Michael Harris's books for another perspective.

Photographing Buildings Inside and Out -

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Photographing Buildings Inside and Out -
Norman McGrath -
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000R9OQH2

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Photographing Buildings Inside and Out
Norman McGrath
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ASIN: B000OPYD90

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A good story that needs more definition

A good beginning

A Real Treat

A Nice Start

Will appeal to adults who like history and intrigue

No Pasaran! (No Pasaran)
Vittorio Giardino
Manufacturer: Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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A Jew in Communist Prague: Loss of Innocence (Jew in Communist Prague)

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ASIN: 1561633135

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The leftist forces are retreating north as Franco's army advances with the help of German and Italian aviation. Max Friedman approaches the front, posing as a photographer in a small group of foreign journalists. He flashes back to battles fought with his old comrade Guido Treves, who has gone missing and is the object of his mission. Amidst the ruin of war, Claire, the pretty Belgian reporter who got Max his press credentials, is developing a strong attraction to him, arousing the jealousy of her fellow reporter and would-be-boyfriend, Phil Lester. Caught in the middle of a retreat, Max and Claire get separated from the rest of their group. They have to cross a mountain pass and take shelter in a hut -- the romantic tension builds, but gets snuffed by the urgent need to press onward.

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A good story that needs more definition.......2003-08-28

I've always enjoyed the work of Vittorio Giardino, the best contemporary practitioner of the "Belgian style" of comix illustration. His stories are almost always tales of intrigue, mostly starring Max Bergman, an agent of the French "Deuxieme Bureau."

In this series Max is working on his own, searching for a an old comrade-in-arms, now an officer in Spain's Republican Army, who has disappeared in the Spanish Civil War after falling into disfavor with the Republican secret police.

Max travels to the front with a beautiful young French correspondant and other, more cynical members of the press corps. We see the devastation of the war and get a feel for the political undercurrents swirling around the Republican cause.

Unfortunately, like the previous book this is not really a complete episode by itself, and ends without a clear climax. The subject matter is fascinating, the characterization and attention to historical detail are excellent, but the plotting is weak and the story is simply a kind of picaresque ramble through the war.

A good beginning.......2003-08-28

Vittorio Giardino is the best contemporary practitioner of the "Belgian style" of comix illustration, and his stories are always intriguing - because they're almost always about intrigue!

Max Bergman, sometime French spy living in Switzerland, is visited in 1938 by the wife of an old comrade-in-arms. Max's friend, an officer in the Republican Army, has disappeared in the Spanish Civil War. Max agrees to return to Spain to search for him.

The officer has actually fallen foul of the Communist secret police who are part of the Republican war effort. They are fighting "fifth column" saboteurs, who are trying to undermine the Republican war effort and help the Nationalists to win. The head of the secret police is an old enemy of Max's.

Max arrives in Spain with a young French correspondant who is frustrated by the control over the press exercised by the Communists. While Max visits old friends in search of the missing officer, she arranges for him to visit the front under a press pass.

This is not really a complete episode in and of itself, and leaves us hanging in many ways. Unfortunately so does part II of the series, in which Max reaches the front in the midst of Republican reverses. The characterization and attention to historical detail are excellent, but the plotting is weak and the story rambles.

A Real Treat.......2002-05-17

Giardino's work is unique for his historical accuracy and the breadth of his knowledge. No Pasaran captures, among other episodes, the tensions between the Stalinists and the Anarchists and Trotskyists in the Spanish Civil war. There are wonderful renditions of the incredible architecture of Barcelona. His work is so rich on many levels. I can't wait until part two.

A Nice Start.......2002-03-01

I first discovered Italian cartoonist Giardino through his series A Jew in Communist Prague and was thrilled to see him tackle the Spanish Civil War in this new volume. Apparently it continues the story of spy Max Friedman from earlier volumes, which I have not seen. Set in the waning days of the Civil War in 1938, disillusioned former International Brigade officer Friedman returns to Barcelona to track down an old friend who's gone missing. Whether this is at the hands of Franco's secret police, Communist apparatchiks trying to control the anti-fascist forces, or some other unknown force is not disovered by the end of the volume. More interesting than the plot is Giardino's strong artwork, which beautifully captures the battle-scarred art noveau buildings of 1930s Barcelona. I look forward to the plot thickening in the next volume.

Will appeal to adults who like history and intrigue.......2001-02-14

No Pasaran! returns the comic illustrator's Max Friedman series of spy graphic novels to new audiences with a tale set during the Spanish Civil War. The complexity of plot and presentation will appeal to adults who like a dose of history and intrigue with their graphic novel.

Dionisio Ridruejo, una pasion espanola ;: !No pasaran! pasionaria (Espiral/Teatro)

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Dionisio Ridruejo, una pasion espanola ;: !No pasaran! pasionaria (Espiral/Teatro)
Ignacio Amestoy Egiguren
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El Madrid del no pasaran!
German Lopezarias
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Max Fridman, tome 3 : No pasarán
Vittorio Giardino
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No Pasaran / The Will not Pass: Las invasiones alienigenas de Wells a Spielberg / The Alien Invasions from Wells to Spielberg (Serie Abierta / Open Serie)

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No Pasaran / The Will not Pass: Las invasiones alienigenas de Wells a Spielberg / The Alien Invasions from Wells to Spielberg (Serie Abierta / Open Serie)
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No Pasaran They Shall Not Pass
Upton Sinclair
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No pasaran!: (They shall not pass) A story of the battle of Madrid,

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No Pasarán: Art, Literature and the Civil War (Monografías A)

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No Pasarán: Art, Literature and the Civil War (Monografías A)

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No Pasaran! El Videojuego
Chrstine Lehmann
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No Pasaran!: A Memoir of the Spanish Civil War

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No Pasaran!: A Memoir of the Spanish Civil War
David Hopper , and Robin Saikia
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Young Malcolm Ward's father dies and he is betrayed into Mid-State Hospital by a cruel and greedy uncle. Malcolm is imprisoned on the Acute Violent and Forensic Ward where he discovers both art and the art of survival. Later, in the general hospital population, he fights to save a pretty young lady patient in his group therapy from a psychotic superintendent. This activates a system already clearly out to kill him. After he is blitzed by a series of unneeded shock treatments and sent to a back ward to die, he slowly recovers by painting and crafting sculpture. He falls in love with a devoted occupational therapist who reciprocates. And to make himself whole for her he escapes the hospital to find a new and truer life in a blazing finale of enlightened madness in New York's Greenwich Village.

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A Work of Genius.......2003-08-27

To have survived in this hell hole is stunning. To have produced a work of absolute genius in spite of it is incredible. Don't miss this one.

Absolute Genius.......2003-08-20

This four novel set is a work of absolute genius. The subject of the classic "....Cuckoo's Nest" has now been elevated from simple craft to high art. A must read.

One Of The Best Personal Victory Sagas In The Last 50 Years.......2003-08-17

Superb. Probably one of the best personal victory sagas in the last 50 years.

Absolute Genius.......2003-08-17

This is a work of absolute genius. Don't miss it.

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We can call him many things,......................................2007-07-21

..........but dull is not one of them. Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard remains one one of the South's most controversial Generals, either a genius or simply one more mediocre officer in a long line. But, either way, Beauregard had STYLE. He remains, along with Lee and Forrest, the most recognizable Confederate Officer. In fact, he was a sharp, and tough, combat officer, never defeated in battle. No one questions the Creole's intellect; let no one question his courage, either.

Beauregard is, in some ways the Civil War's comic relief...witness his continuing attempt, two years into the war, to collect on a claim for travel back from West Point just prior to the war. I have made the same statement about Judah Benjamin, and there are parallels: Louisiana background, a French Catholic and a Jew, outsiders in a land run by British Anglicans. The two most financially successful Confederates after the war, Beauregard and Benjamin refused to stay defeated. They had STYLE, you see.

PGT Beauregard came from a successful family, did well at West Point [second in his class, as was Lee], and was assigned to the Engineers, the reward for academic success. The war in Mexico soon followed, where Lieutenant Beauregard, along with Captains Robert E. Lee and Joe Johnston, helped pave General Scott's way into Mexico City. After Mexico...Charleston, where his bar-excavator made the harbor usable, and his native New Orleans, where his engineering skill made possible the building of a Customshouse, which he ran for seven years. Appointed Suprintendent at West Point, he lasted a week, relieved because of his obvious Southern sympathy in the coming conflict [this is the origin of the travel claim mentioned above].

Came the war....Beauregard served the whole way, East and West...the firing on Fort Sumter, hero of First Manassas...then, exile. Beauregard, like Joe Johnston, ran up against the high-strung temper of Jefferson Davis. One of Davis' profound weaknesses was an inability to work with people he did not like, and the Confederacy suffered. Unjustly blamed for the "lost opportunity" of Shiloh [as we should have listened to Longstreet at Gettysburg, we should have listened to Beauregard at Shiloh], the General was sent to run the defense of Charleston [the Yankees never did take the harbor], and later assisted with Lee's defense of Petersburg, and Hardee's evacuation of Savannah. Thru it all, the Creole dreamed big dreams of ultimate conquest. Some were impractical, but...obviously what we did didn't work.

Someone once said of General Longstreet that he really died April 9, 1865, though his heart continued to beat another 40 years. Where Longstreet became an apostate for writing that the South needed to build a bridge and get over it, Beauregard didn't write, he simply crossed the bridge to wealth, power, and position in the New South. He was criticized for getting rich, but he had a family to support. Whatever his faults, he loved his family [another parallel with Benjamin, but where Benjamin went to England to get rich, Beauregard stayed in Louisiana]. Beauregard wrote his memoirs, but in an unusual twist on the usual procedure, he had a ghost writer take credit. He made money building railroads, and a ton of money with the Louisiana Lottery. The chapter on the Lottery is hilarious, and worth the price of the book. The powers behind the Lottery wanted a Confederate General to be the figurehead boss, and Beauregard, along with Jubal Early, was glad to take their money.

This wonderful book is the only decent biography of the Creole we have; one gets the impression that Williams dislikes his subject, but he was such a great, fair, honest, balanced writer that the General's greatness shines thru. PGT could be a difficult little man, but he was also a decent man [he paid to bury General Hood and his wife and daughter in 1879, then helped with financing the care of his surviving kids], and a genius [see the article he wrote in 1866 on the need for a battlefield night vision system]. For anyone with any kind of interest in our Civil War, this is an essential study.

THE GREAT CREOLE.......2006-04-05

This is a very good book on a very deserving subject. Beauregard often gets overlooked, he was never as beloved as Lee or Stonewall Jackson, but he was capable, the man had a sharp mind and Lee understood this, even if Jefferson Davis did not. The book gives a fascinating look at this intriguing man, though being of Creole heritage I do wish the author had spent more time on Beauregards early life, he came from a first line Creole family and he was a top student at West Point, where he disinguished himself well. This is really the definitive book on Beauregard, highly recommended.

Beauregard: feisty and opinionated.......2005-12-25

The staying power of this book is made obvious in the fact that it was first published in 1955 and it is still in print today. T. Harry Williams is an excellent historian and writer, having won the Pulitzer Prize for his biography on Huey Long. He has written often on the Civil War, including two books on Abraham Lincoln. This is an important work on the "perplexing" Confederate general Beauregard, as combative with his fellow officers as he was with the enemy on the field.

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, a Creole born near New Orleans in 1818, attended West Point and was assigned to the Engineers. He served in the Mexican War, was promoted twice, and after the war was stationed in New Orleans where he made navigational improvements to the Mississippi River. He was made superintendent of West Point in 1861, but after only a month he threw his hat in with the Southern cause and joined the Confederacy, being assigned to Charleston. He ordered the firing on Ft. Sumter that began the conflict and later that year led the Confederate forces at Manassas.

A hero at Bull Run, he was promoted to full general and joined Albert Johnston in Tennessee. Over the course of the war he saw action at Shiloh, the Bermuda Hundred, Petersburg, and finally in the coastal defense of South Carolina and Georgia, where he was when the war ended. After the war he was offered command of army forces in Rumania and Egypt, but decided to stay in Louisiana where he became a successful businessman as president of a Southern railroad company and adjutant general of the state. A great deal of his spare time was spent arguing in articles and books his role in the war and his criticisms of other rebel leaders. He died in 1893.

Beauregard was a competent general, but prone to what we might call today "micromanaging": his war plans could become so detailed that they were almost impossible to carry out. He held Jefferson Davis in very low regard and was also highly critical of Joseph Johnston. Williams's book is very impressive and captures this strange man well. Williams believes that Beauregard might have become a superb general if given the time to develop, but the Civil War offered no such growing room. This is an excellent Civil War biography. Highly recommended.

Napoleon in Gray.......2005-09-07

Overall Williams has written a decent biography of one of the South's most colorful Generals. He does a good job with life after the Civil War and a good job describing Beauragards role at Shiloh and Charleston.

Unfortunately Williams really just skimmed through Beauragards life before the Civil War. The reader gets almost nothing concerning Beauragard at West Point, Mexico, and in the 1850's. At Mexico no real detail is given to any of the battles Beauragard participated in. We get some basics about him at Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, and Mexico City but Williams just doesn't go into detail enough.

I thought he could have done better with the conflict with Davis but overall he hit the most important points. I liked how Williams made clear that Beauragard wasn't a bad general, but neither was he a great general either. I think Williams did good at keeping relatively unbiased concerning Napoleaon in Gray.

Overall it is worth the read but it could have been better.

Intriguing........2004-01-08

PGT Beauregard was an interesting personality. In most general Civil War publications, the North and South both had generals who were in and out of favor with their superiors during the course of the war. Beauregard was one of those, though he was mostly on the outs.

Yet he was one of only 8 full generals of the Confederacy. Interestingly, he held six independent commands and for a while he commanded the Army of Tennessee, one of the two principal field armies.

His defense of Charleston was very good. The city was never taken by Federal frontal assault. It took Sherman's overland campaign to force Charleston's abandonment but each and every seaborne assault was rebuffed. So he must have been a capable general.

But if he was capable, maybe even good at his craft, why wasn't he better utilized as a tool for Southern Independence? And if he was not useful to Jeff Davis during much of the war, why was he rushed back to service once Grant crossed the James? The answer is simple: Lee needed help and needed the best the South had available as the Civil War's end game played itself out.

This is the stuff Mr. Williams' book is made of. As on all occasions where significant events take place, power politics was present and Jeff Davis just may have failed to recognize his Ulysses S. Grant.

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P.G.T. Beauregard Napoleon in Gray
Williams T. Harry
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P.G.T. BEAUREGARD: NAPOLEON IN GRAY
Williams T Harry
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P.G.T. BEAUREGARD: NAPOLEON IN GRAY
T. Harry Williams
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P.G.T. Beauregard: Napoleon in Gray.
T. HARRY WILLIAMS
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P.G.T. BEAUREGARD, NAPOLEON IN GRAY
T. Harry Williams
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P.G.T. Beauregard, Napoleon in Gray
T. Harry Williams
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This collection of new essays examines the long-standing question of apocalyptic expectations around the turn of the first millennium. Including works by scholars of medieval history, literature, and religion, this book argues that apocalyptic expectations did exist around the year 1000. It provides a more balanced and nuanced approach to the issue than the traditional views that either identify a time of fear, the "terrors of the year 1000," or deny that awareness of the millennium existed. This book, instead, recognizes that there were a variety of responses to the eschatological years 1000 and 1033 and that these responses contributed to the broader social and religious developments associated with the birth of European civilization.

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