McKim, Mead & White, Kalomirakis, Fay Jones & Venice

McKim, Mead & White: The Masterworks

McKim, Mead & White rivals Frank Lloyd Wright for the honor of the premier architectural firm in American architecture. During McKim, Mead & White's most creative period (1879-1915), the firm received nearly 1,000 commissions, which include many of the most famous and important buildings ever built in America. Now, following Rizzoli's Houses of McKim, Mead & White, authors Samuel G. White and Elizabeth White here document the great non-residential works of America's greatest classical architects.
In lavish color and archival photographs, the book includes the Boston Public Library, Newport Casino, the second Madison Square Garden, the Washington Memorial Arch, the Morgan Library, major works at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the campuses of Columbia and Harvard universities, Pennsylvania Station in New York, Bank of Montreal, American Academy in Rome, the Century Association, and the Harvard, Metropolitan, and University clubs in New York, among others. McKim, Mead & White: The Masterworks is certain to stand the test of time as one of the most important publications on American architecture.
McKim, Mead & White: The Masterworks by Samuel G. White and Elizabeth White
Rizzoli International, 2003
ISBN: 0847825671

Early Art and Architecture of Africa by Peter Garlake

This study of over 5000 years of African art reveals its true diversity for the first time. Challenging centuries of misconceptions that have obscured the sophisticated nature of African art, Peter Garlake uses the latest research and archaeological findings to offer exciting new insights. All the main regions are covered: southern Africa, Nubia, Aksum, the Niger River, West Africa, Great Zimbabwe, and the East African coast.
Acknowledging the universal allure of the African art object, this book restores it to its original social and historical context, helping us to understand more about the ways in which this art was produced, used, and received.
Early Art and Architecture of Africa door Peter Garlake
Oxford, 2002

Theo Kalomirakis

Theo Kalomirakis is obsessed with his work and embarked upon a quest for an elusive ideal theater that can exist only in dreams. Each time that he makes a dream theater into a reality, no matter how stunning the creation, it never quite fulfills the ideal in his mind-and off he goes again in the enthusiastic pursuit of impossible perfection.
In the 21st century, more and more people go out to the movies at home. This lifestyle change has led to the biggest innovation in residential design today: the home theater, be it a custom-installed system or an elaborate private screening room. At the high end, Theo Kalomirakis reigns supreme as the leading designer of private theaters in the home.
Theo Kalomirakis tailors each of his designs to fit the needs of a specific client, using styles that range from ultra-traditional to cutting-edge. His theaters even have their own marquee names: The Moonlight, The First Run, The Miami Beach. Great Escapes showcases nine of these incredible spaces through superb color photographs and descriptions of the technology that make this revolution in entertainment and design possible. Although Theo Kalomirakis's extravagant creations are for wealthy clients, they will also serve as inspiration for home owners who want to integrate cinema quality with home comfort on a more modest budget. Great Escapes: New Designs for Home Theaters by Theo Kalomirakis
ISBN: 0810946564

Fay Jones

Now available for the first time in paperback, this award-winning volume explores the entire range of Fay Jones's work in beautiful text, exquisite graphic design, and images from leading architectural photographers.
The only book to cover the full range of Jones' work - a student of Frank Lloyd Wright's and one of the most influential architects of the second half of the 20th century. It features award-winning text and photography and is newly reissued in paperback, it is a must-have for experienced and novice architects. In Fay Jones you find the organic forms, integrated with nature, that Fay Jones, a disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright, brought to residences, churches, and many other buildings. Fay Jones is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and, in 1990, was the recipient of its highest honor, the AIA Gold Medal.
Written by Robert Adams Ivy, Jr., Editor-in-Chief of Architectural Record and an architect himself, and combining the highest standards of scholarship, design and production, according to an award from the Art Library Societies of North America, this book was originally published by the AIA Press and quickly sold out its entire printing. When you look inside you'll see why. Filled with beautiful images from photographers such as Ezra Stoller, it offers lovers of architecture an opportunity to experience the work of one of the greatest designers of the second half of the twentieth century and to keep the inspiration of Fay Jones always at hand.
Fay Jones by Robert Adams Ivy Jr.
ISBN: 0071358315

Stones of Venice

The Stones of Venice has been described as the greatest guidebook ever written. Read by all who went there and thousands who did not, it opened Victorian eyes to the glories of a city even then under threat, and transformed the study and practice of architecture forever. It took Ruskin almost half a million words to launch this devastating attack on the Renaissance, and to explain how to see and make true architecture. They were "glorious words, but too many," as J.G. Links put it while preparing this edition. Links, himself the greatest exponent of Venice of the 20th century, designed this abridgement to convey all the excitement, urgency, and love of Venice to a new generation of readers. John Ruskin (1819­1900), theorist and painter, was the greatest and most influential critic of the 19th century. His writing on art, architecture, and social issues fills forty volumes.
John Ruskin, Victorian England's greatest writer on art and literature, believed himself to be an adopted son of Venice, and his feelings for this beautiful, melancholy city are nowhere better expressed than in The Stones of Venice, a collection of essays first published between 1851 and 1853. This abridged edition, which contains Ruskin's famous essay "The Nature of Gothic," captures the essence of his masterpiece, offering readers a marvelously descriptive and discursive tour of the glorious city of Venice before it was transformed by postwar restoration. As Ruskin wrote on his second visit to Venice in 1841, "Thank God I am here, it is a Paradise of Cities."
The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin
ISBN: 030681286X

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