Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)

What should a television look like? How should a dial on a radio feel to the touch? These were questions John Vassos asked when the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) asked him to design the first mass-produced television receiver, the TRK-12, which had its spectacular premier at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Vassos emigrated from Greece and arrived in the United States in 1918. His career spans the evolution of central forms of mass media in the twentieth century and offers a template for understanding their success. This is Vassos's legacy--shaping the way we interact with our media...

What should a television look like? How should a dial on a radio feel to the touch? These were questions John Vassos asked when the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) asked him to design the first mass-produced television receiver, the TRK-12, which had its spectacular premier at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Vassos emigrated from Greece and arrived in the United States in 1918. His career spans the evolution of central forms of mass media in the twentieth century and offers a template for understanding their success. This is Vassos's legacy--shaping the way we interact with our media...

The Zacherlhaus is located in the heart of Vienna, just 180 meters from St. Stephen's Cathedral, and is one of the most important buildings created by the Otto Wagner School. It was built in the years from 1900 to 1913 and designed for its owner Johann Zacherl by Joesef Plecnik, who later taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and from 1925 worked on the urban renewal of Ljubljana. It was the first combined residential and commercial building of modern style in the historic inner city and is one of the best known buildings in Vienna.

This generously illustrated, authentic...

A 1920s' saga of Emerald Ashby coming of age. Set against the superstitions and old time religion in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia, author Tonya Jewel Blessing tells a difficult, yet redemptive story of a blossoming young woman who is accompanied by her friends and her foes on a journey towards hope and healing. Love weaves through gut-wrenching circumstances and dismal poverty where Emerald Ashby grows strong despite grievous wrongs committed against her.

Synopsis: Eighth grade Emie is about to learn some hard lessons when a disturbed young man...

On The Trail Of Lyman Dillon is a combination personal journal and a series of historical sketches of people and life along Old Military Road from 1839 until the early 1900's. The book also contains some original research of Monticello Iowa Native Gus Norlin.

La libro entenas la eseojn de Roberto tejgervaldo: "Koba, por kio vi bezonas mian morton? Pri la moskvaj procesoj de 1936 is 1938," kaj "Socialismo kaj tato" (propono krei en socialisma socio konstitucian tribunalon por malhelpi la evoluon de aUtokrateco. Krome Roger Keeran: La "sekreta parolado" de ru ovo kaj la historia vero. Pri la libro de Grover Furr pri tiu temo. La lasta parto de la libro entenas biografietojn de menciitaj personoj, verkitajn de Jurij Finkel.

Exploring the stories behind a range of iconic American and British buildings from the turn of the twentieth century, Medieval Metropolis is the first book to reveal how the modern architectural world thrived upon a foundation of medievalism. A vivid and wide-ranging account, it takes a fresh look at Gothic-style modern buildings, seeing them as radical, experimental and progressive. Lepine argues that far from being conservative and nostalgic, medievalism built the skyscrapers of New York and the civic landmarks of London, at the dawn of a truly international modern...

Nuntempe, speciale en Ruslando, lar a rifuzo de la nuna oligar ia kapitalismo kondukas grandan parton de la lo antaro al nostalgio je la fortulo, kiu, la la disvasti inta legendo, faris Sovetion mondpotenco. La viktimoj kaj la alternativoj estas ne nur pretervidataj, sed, la la bona stalinisma tradicio, fifamig-a-taj a ignorataj.

En tiu situacio ajnas interese ne nur paroli pri Stalino, sed paroligi lin mem, kaj legi lin per kritika legado, kun kelkaj necesaj akompanaj klarigoj.

To explain the British attack on the French fleet at anchor in the harbor at Mers-el-KEbir 3.July.1940], Sir Winston Churchill said, "What matters are events, not words." His uncharacteristic humility vastly understates the enormous power his words held in those dark days during the summer of 1940. Through the prism of the selected documents and speeches, placed in the context of surrounding events, as Churchill succinctly noted, we see the evolution of the most horrific human tragedy in recorded history.

The Clarity of Hindsight offers readers a...

Who are we that have big comfortable houses, new motor cars, televisions, modern schools with computers, money in our pockets, and plenty of food? Who are we? We are the prodigy of our forefathers and mothers who paved the way for us to be able to live as we do today. We do not know the feeling of having to leave families behind, as they had to, knowing that they would probably never see them again. Not long after the end of the great-war, it was decided that Australia should be settled more, and the south west of Western Australia appealed as a good area for farming, and needed...

In the early 1900s, Detroit was leading the nation in architectural innovation and designer Wirt Rowland was at the forefront of this advancement, yet few are even aware of his substantial contribution to the evolution of architectural style. It is widely believed that celebrated local architect Albert Kahn designed many of Detroit's structures, such as the General Motors and First National Bank buildings. In fact, while Kahn's efforts were focused on running his highly successful firm, it was Rowland, his chief designer, who was responsible for the appearance and layout of these...

Key Modern Architects provides an accessible and thought-provoking introduction to the work of the most significant architects of the modern era. Fifty short chapters introduce fifty key architects, from Le Corbusier to Aldo Van Eyck to Zaha Hadid, exploring their most influential buildings and developing a critique of each architect's work within a broader cultural and historical context.

The selection represents the most influential architects working from 1890 to the present, those most likely to be taught on survey courses in modern architectural history, along with some...

Key Modern Architects provides an accessible and thought-provoking introduction to the work of the most significant architects of the modern era. Fifty short chapters introduce fifty key architects, from Le Corbusier to Aldo Van Eyck to Zaha Hadid, exploring their most influential buildings and developing a critique of each architect's work within a broader cultural and historical context.

The selection represents the most influential architects working from 1890 to the present, those most likely to be taught on survey courses in modern architectural history, along with some...