Search:

Results 21 to 30 of 489 | « previous |

The geography of nowhere : the rise and decline of America's man-made landscape / by Kunstler, James Howard.(CARDINAL)720602;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Architecture and society; Architecture;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 5
unAPI

Disney's land : Walt Disney and the invention of the amusement park that changed the world / by Snow, Richard,1947-author.(CARDINAL)186376;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-385) and index."By the early 1950s Walt Disney's great achievements in animation were behind him, and he was increasingly bored by the two-dimensional film medium. He wanted to work in three, to build an entirely new sort of amusement park, one that relied more on cinematic techniques than on thrill rides, one from which all tawdriness had been purged. He achieved it, but just barely: he ran out of money, had to borrow against his life insurance, fell out with his studio, frightened his family, and endured much ridicule. What he built was far more influential than is generally understood-for one thing, Disneyland's Main Street sparked an architectural preservation movement that touched every American downtown-and remains controversial: many see it as a retreat from life itself. What is beyond argument is that Disneyland was something new, both in public entertainment, and in the way its "lands" managed to chime with how millions of Americans wanted to view their country-six hundred million Americans so far, and they just keep on coming. It reflects the park's uniqueness, but just as strongly that of the man who built it with a watchmaker's precision, an artist's conviction, and the desperate, high-hearted recklessness of a riverboat gambler"--
Subjects: Architecture, American.; Architecture and society;
Available copies: 18 / Total copies: 19
unAPI

The geography of nowhere : the rise and decline of America's man-made landscape / by Kunstler, James Howard.(CARDINAL)720602;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-284) and index.
Subjects: Architecture; Architecture and society;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Revelations of New England architecture : people and their buildings / by Bruce, Curt.(CARDINAL)130959; Grossman, Jill,1939-(CARDINAL)539818;
Bibliography: pages 175-176.
Subjects: Architecture and society; Architecture;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Makeshift metropolis : ideas about cities / by Rybczynski, Witold.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-218) and index.Remaking the city -- Three big ideas -- Home remedies -- Mr. Wright and the disappearing city -- The demand-side of urbanism -- Arcades and malls, big boxes and lifestyle centers -- On the waterfront -- The Bilbao anomaly -- Putting the pieces together -- The kind of cities we want -- The kind of cities we need.
Subjects: Architecture and society; City planning;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Cathedrals, stone upon stone / by Gandiol-Coppin, Brigitte.(CARDINAL)776184; Thibault, Dominique,illustrator.(CARDINAL)764193;
Describes the cathedrals of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, detailing their construction.
Subjects: Architecture and society; Architecture, Medieval; Cathedrals;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
unAPI

Art in history / by Silver, Larry,1947-(CARDINAL)158908;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 482-486) and index.
Subjects: Architecture and history.; Art and history.; Art and society.; Art;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

African painted houses : Basotho dwellings of Southern Africa / by Van Wyk, Gary.(CARDINAL)210970;
Subjects: Sotho (African people); Color in architecture; Architecture and society;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Home : a short history of an idea / by Rybczynski, Witold.(CARDINAL)135788;
Bibliography: pages 233-244.
Subjects: Dwellings; Personal space; Architecture and society.;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Home : a short history of an idea / by Rybczynski, Witold.(CARDINAL)135788;
Bibliography: pages 233-244.
Subjects: Dwellings; Personal space; Architecture and society.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
unAPI

Results 21 to 30 of 489 | « previous |