Author : Dan Cruickshank
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 49,33 MB
Release : 2010-10-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0007412339
Dan Cruickshank’s personal, passionate and learned journey into the very awe-inspiring architectural icons which have transformed culture, society, industry and landscapes throughout the world – bridges.
Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 20,27 MB
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1465499261
Discover the most incredible man-made wonders, from Stonehenge to Burj Khalifa, with this unparalleled catalog of the most famous and intriguing buildings and monuments created by humans. Man-Made Wonders of the World features a range of structures from buildings to monuments, statues, and bridges, including the Golden Gate Bridge and Hoover Dam. It opens with a foreword by Dan Cruickshank and then takes the reader on a continent-by-continent journey, exploring and charting the innovations, ingenuity, and imagination employed by different cultures to create iconic buildings such as the Great Pyramid of Giza. This truly global approach reveals how humans tackled similar challenges, such as keeping the enemy out, in vastly different parts of the world, from the Great Wall of China to the defensive walls of Central American cities. Illustrations explain how the structures were built, while explanations cover the history, architecture, and unique stories behind their construction. Featuring breathtaking images, Man-Made Wonders of the World is a complete celebration of the world humans have built over thousands of years.
Author : Dan Cruickshank
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 50,22 MB
Release : 2010-09
Category : Bridges
ISBN : 9781554076857
"A thrilling journey over, under and across the world's most challenging bridges. "Enthusiasm backed up by impressive research."" -- The Sunday Telegraph "on Dan Cruickshank's" Around the World in 80 Treasures "Bridges" is a passionate and learned journey into the awe-inspiring architectural icons that have connected and transformed landscapes throughout the world. The book describes bridges' architectural and aesthetic influences and examines how these spectacles of engineering have influenced the development of cultures, economies and society. Architectural historian Dan Cruickshank has organized the book chronologically and thematically to provide a historical context for the development of engineering technology. There are more than 150 vivid photographs of bridges and close-up construction details. Line drawings reveal the core structure of the bridges, and period illustrations complete this in-depth reference. The book covers: Bridges from the ancient world Medieval bridges from around the world Bridges from the Renaissance to the 18th century Timber bridges Pioneering structural designs from North America and Europe Concrete and modernism How bridges have brought nations, cities and communities together Decorative, garden and rural designs Contemporary structures. From the Roman Empire's Pont du Gard and the iconic Golden Gate Bridge to the incredible Millau Viaduct and the mega-bridges of tomorrow, "Bridges" is a fascinating read on the most mighty of architectural traditions.
Author : Dan Cruickshank
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 47,49 MB
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0007575599
Featuring over 200 photographs, this stunning book by renowned television historian Dan Cruickshank tells the history of architecture through the stories of 100 iconic buildings
Author : Dan Cruickshank
Publisher : Random House
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 19,20 MB
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1473554322
'The perfect guide to the hidden history of London's streets.' BBC History Magazine In Cruickshank's London, Britain's favourite architectural historian describes thirteen walks through one of the greatest cities on earth. From the mysterious Anglo-Saxon origins of Hampstead Heath, via Christopher Wren's magisterial City churches, to the industrial bustle of Victorian Bermondsey, each walk explores a crucial moment in our history - and reveals how it helped forge the modern city. Along the way, Cruickshank peppers the book with vivid photographs, sketches and maps, so you can immediately follow in his footsteps. Every street in London contains a story. This book invites you to hear them. ___ 'An inspiringly illustrated guide to walks across London . . . It proves how much we can miss if we don't pay close attention to our surroundings.' Country Life 'All power to Cruickshank and his intrepid and knowledgeable kind. We need them.' Times Literary Supplement
Author : Judith Dupré
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 38,17 MB
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0316473804
From New York Times best-selling author Judith Dupréomes a revised and updated edition of Bridges, her magnificent chronological tour of the world's most significant and eye-popping spans. Covering thousands of years of architectural history, each bridge is gorgeously photographed "elevating the landmarks from mode of transportation to works of art" (Bustle). Technological advances, structural daring, and artistic vision have propelled the evolution of bridge design around the world. This visual history of the world's landmark bridges has been thoroughly revised andupdated since its initial publication twenty-five years ago, and now showcases well-known classics as well as modern innovators. Bridges featured include: The Brooklyn Bridge (New York) Dany and-Kunshan Grand Bridge (China) Gateshead Millennium Bridge (England) The Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco) Zakim Bridge (Boston) Including all-new photographs and the latest cutting edgework from today's international superstars of architecture and engineering, Bridges covers two-thousand years of technological and aesthetic triumphs, making it the most thorough, authoritative, and gorgeous book on the subject-as dramatic in presentation as the structures it celebrates. Breathtaking photographs capture the bridges' details as well as their monumental scale; architectural drawings and plans invite you behind the scenes as new bridges take shape; and lively commentary on each structure explores its importance and places it in historical context. Throughout, informative profiles, features, and statistics make Bridges an invaluable reference as well as a visual feast.
Author : Patricia Harpring
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 50,81 MB
Release : 2010-04-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 160606018X
This detailed book is a “how-to” guide to building controlled vocabulary tools, cataloging and indexing cultural materials with terms and names from controlled vocabularies, and using vocabularies in search engines and databases to enhance discovery and retrieval online. Also covered are the following: What are controlled vocabularies and why are they useful? Which vocabularies exist for cataloging art and cultural objects? How should they be integrated in a cataloging system? How should they be used for indexing and for retrieval? How should an institution construct a local authority file? The links in a controlled vocabulary ensure that relationships are defined and maintained for both cataloging and retrieval, clarifying whether a rose window and a Catherine wheel are the same thing, or how pot-metal glass is related to the more general term stained glass. The book provides organizations and individuals with a practical tool for creating and implementing vocabularies as reference tools, sources of documentation, and powerful enhancements for online searching.
Author : Robert C. H. Chia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,2 MB
Release : 2009-10-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521895502
A unique analysis of strategy in organizations that shows how successful strategies may result without planning or design.
Author : Mikhail Bulgakov
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 20,48 MB
Release : 2016-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802190510
Satan comes to Soviet Moscow in this critically acclaimed translation of one of the most important and best-loved modern classics in world literature. The Master and Margarita has been captivating readers around the world ever since its first publication in 1967. Written during Stalin’s time in power but suppressed in the Soviet Union for decades, Bulgakov’s masterpiece is an ironic parable on power and its corruption, on good and evil, and on human frailty and the strength of love. In The Master and Margarita, the Devil himself pays a visit to Soviet Moscow. Accompanied by a retinue that includes the fast-talking, vodka-drinking, giant tomcat Behemoth, he sets about creating a whirlwind of chaos that soon involves the beautiful Margarita and her beloved, a distraught writer known only as the Master, and even Jesus Christ and Pontius Pilate. The Master and Margarita combines fable, fantasy, political satire, and slapstick comedy to create a wildly entertaining and unforgettable tale that is commonly considered the greatest novel to come out of the Soviet Union. It appears in this edition in a translation by Mirra Ginsburg that was judged “brilliant” by Publishers Weekly. Praise for The Master and Margarita “A wild surrealistic romp. . . . Brilliantly flamboyant and outrageous.” —Joyce Carol Oates, The Detroit News “Fine, funny, imaginative. . . . The Master and Margarita stands squarely in the great Gogolesque tradition of satiric narrative.” —Saul Maloff, Newsweek “A rich, funny, moving and bitter novel. . . . Vast and boisterous entertainment.” —The New York Times “The book is by turns hilarious, mysterious, contemplative and poignant. . . . A great work.” —Chicago Tribune “Funny, devilish, brilliant satire. . . . It’s literature of the highest order and . . . it will deliver a full measure of enjoyment and enlightenment.” —Publishers Weekly
Author : Brian Cowan
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 10,82 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300133502
What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly British combination of curiosity, commerce, and civil society. Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century. Britain’s virtuosi, gentlemanly patrons of the arts and sciences, were profoundly interested in things strange and exotic. Cowan explores how such virtuosi spurred initial consumer interest in coffee and invented the social template for the first coffeehouses. As the coffeehouse evolved, rising to take a central role in British commercial and civil society, the virtuosi were also transformed by their own invention.
