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Review: My Architect World-renowned architect Louis I. Kahn designed some of the most influential buildings of the 20th century, but he died penniless in Pennsylvania Station and left three families behind. Kahn's son Nathaniel tries to trace his father's confounding lif
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Review: My Architect - World / Independent Film Archives Review: My Architect - World-renowned architect Louis I. Kahn designed some of the most influential buildings of the 20th century, but he died penniless in Pennsylvania Station and left three families behind. Kahn's son Nathaniel tries to trace his f
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Since 1948, the Israeli program has largely remained the same--to establish a Jewish state in a predominantly non-Jewish area. Architecture and urban ......(Continue Reading) African adobe - Eye: a showcase for the visual arts - Butabu: Adobe Architecture of West Africa - Banco: Adobe Mosques of the Inner Niger Delta - Brief
A down-to-earth material such as clay, or mud, so to speak, has been used to build some of the most simple yet elegant and notable architecture in Africa....(Continue Reading)Shelf life - Hey Hey? Ho Ho! - books about globalism, synagogue architecture, founding fathers - book review
In the rhetoric of malcontents of all stripes-Left, Right, and center- "globalization" has become the all-purpose bogeyman, the deepest "root cause" ......(Continue Reading)Transport, engineering and architecture: Arups apotheosized - Book Review
By Hugh Collis. London: Laurence King Publishing. 2003. [pounds sterling]50 This beautifully illustrated book written by one of Arups' staff, the late Hugh Collis, covers their role in the field...(Continue Reading)Last landscapes: the architecture of the cemetery in the west: designs for death - Book Review
By Ken Worpole. London: Reaktion Books. 2003. [pounds sterling]22 The subtitle is misleading: Worpole's book is concerned less about architecture than with meaning in landscapes and with problems...(Continue Reading)
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