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Author: Gavin Stamp Publisher: Laurence King ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 194
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Alexander Thomson produced a distinctive modern architecture based on a fundamentalist classicism that earned him the nickname 'Greek'. This is a thorough visual guide to his work, including buildings now demolished.
Author: Gavin Stamp Publisher: Laurence King ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 194
Book Description
Alexander Thomson produced a distinctive modern architecture based on a fundamentalist classicism that earned him the nickname 'Greek'. This is a thorough visual guide to his work, including buildings now demolished.
Author: Kathryn Waterfield Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0451532732 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 114
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Alexander the Great conquers the New York Times best-selling Who Was...? series! When Alexander was a boy in ancient Macedon, he already had grand ambitions. He complained that his father, the great king of Macedon, wasn't leaving anything for him to conquer! This, of course, was not the case. King Alexander went on to control most of the known world of the time. His victories won him many supporters, but they also earned him enemies. This easy-to-read biography offers a fascinating look at the life of Alexander and the world he lived in.
Author: Alice Grahame Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited ISBN: 9781848223899 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 160
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This is a study of the architect Walter Segal (1907-1985): his intellectual biography (background, influences, thoughts, writings), his unique approach to architectural practice (and his built work) and his enduring impact on architecture and attitudes to housing across the world. It firstly sets out his formative years in continental Europe. Segal's father was an eminent modern painter, close to leading architects and artists and he grew up in a fascinating milieu, at the centre of the European avant-garde. With the rise of Hitler, this Jewish family fled, finally settling in England prior to the Second World War. The second section focuses on Walter Segal's central theme of popular housing, his unique and independent form of professional practice, how he managed to spread his ideas through writing and teaching, and how his architecture developed towards the timber-frame system known world-wide today as 'the Segal system, ' which could be used by people to build their own houses. The final section of the book explores the legacy offered by Segal to younger generations; how his work and example, half a century after his timber 'system' was developed, leads to the possibility of making, and then living within, communities whose places are constructed with a flexible, easily assembled, planet-friendly timberframe building system today and tomorrow.
Author: Gavin Stamp Publisher: Edinburgh University Press ISBN: 1474472826 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 275
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Alexander 'Greek' Thomson is at last being recognised as an architect of genius, comparable in stature to Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Now in paperback, this is the first book in which a team of distinguished architectural commentators and historians use the latest research in the area to illuminate the full range of Thomson's talents. Thomson emerges not just as a great architect, but as a towering intellect whose theory and practice synthesised the best thought of his time in architectural history, aesthetic philosophy and, not least, theology. His ventures into urban planning are explored, and his approaches to facade design and interiors are examined in detail, while rare colour plates complete a portrait which brings this outstanding architect to life. With an Introduction by the late Sir John Summerson this volume celebrates the work of arguably the greatest exponent of the Greek Revival.
Author: Gavin Stamp
Author: Gavin Stamp
Author: James Stuart
Author: Kathryn Waterfield
Author: Ronald McFadzean
Author: Alexander Thomson
Author: Alexander Thomson
Author: Alice Grahame
Author: James Oliver Thomson
Author: Gavin Stamp
Author: University of Glasgow