Rybczynski, Witold.
Contents: The idea -- The setting -- Site -- Plan -- Structure -- Skin -- Details -- Style -- The past -- Taste.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013
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Summary: "Before Andrea Palladio began designing his simple, gracious, perfectly proportioned villas, architectural genius was reserved for temples and palaces. Palladio elevated the architecture of the private house into an art form, and he not only designed and built, he wrote. His late-sixteenth-century architectural treatises were read and studied by great thinkers as diverse as Thomas Jefferson and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2002
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Summary: The renowned design writer on the extraordinary history of car design. In this lively and entertaining work, Witold Rybczynski--hailed as "one of the best writers on design working today" by Publishers Weekly--tells the story of the most distinctive cars in history and the artists, engineers, dreamers, and gearheads who created them. Delving into more than 170 years of ingenuity in design,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2024
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Summary: "In a collaboration between writer and subject, the author of Home and City life illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted's role as a major cultural figure and a man at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history. We know Olmsted through the physical legacy of his stunning landscapes - among them, New York's Central Park, California's Stanford University campus, Boston's Back Bay Fens,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1999
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Summary: "A deep exploration of modern life that examines our cities, public places, and homes."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720 RYBSummary: A biography of the man who made public parks an essential part of American life. He made enormous contributions to the American landscape, believing a park was both a work of art and a necessity for urban life. Olmsted's efforts to preserve nature created an "environmental ethic" decades before the environmental movement became a force in American politics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014