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"American Eden moves luminously through landscapes of history, literature, biography, and design theory. . . . fusing sharp-edged analysis and graceful American prose." —Kevin Starr, author of Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge
"Informative and absolutely engrossing." —Ross King, author of Brunelleschi's Dome
Garden designer and historian Wade Graham offers a unique vision of the story of America
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Filmed in the U.S. and Germany, "Making architecture move" provides an intimate look into the work of this controversial architect. Eisenman takes the viewer through several of his buildings including the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio, and explains upcoming projects such as the Rebstockpark community in Frankfurt and the Max Reinhardt monument in Berlin.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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The American architect, Frank Gehry, most responsible for the new image of the architect as artist, is documented in this film at a point in his career when he advances from experimental, private houses to complex institutions and large-scale collaborative urban projects. The formative years is a survey of his beginnings when he experimented with his own house in Santa Monica, giving him notoriety in the architecture scene. Narrated by Frank Gehry....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 1982, at the height of the postmodernist adventure in architecture we visit 4 practices: Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Frank Gehry, Michael Graves and Peter Eisenman - all proteges of Philip Johnson. These innovators rejected the European modernism of Mies and Corbusier in search of alternative directions. Since then their work has made architectural history and has influenced many young architects. Philip Johnson comments throughout the...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Charles Gwathmey has held steadfast to the spirit of modernism in his architecture from the day he successfully built his parents' home in 1967 based on the theories of Le Corbusier and American individualism. Avoiding the nostalgia of fashionable postmodernism throughout the eighties, Gwathmey partnered with Robert Siegel, and their firm continues to create innovative houses, corporate, institutional and university buildings across America. This...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
10 buildings that changed America tells the stories of ten influential works of architecture, the people who imagined them, and the way these landmarks ushered in innovative cultural shifts throughout our society. From American architectural stalwarts like Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, to modern revolutionaries Frank Gehry and Robert Venturi, this film examines the most prominent buildings designed by the most noteworthy architects of our...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Rick Joy, an architect based in Tucson, Arizona, owes his reputation to his innovative residential designs, which respond gracefully to their desert environment. Joy exploits natural and passive energy-saving techniques and unusual materials, such as rammed earth and rusting steel, to create striking architectural solutions for living in a hot, dry climate. In this film, Joy takes viewers through the Desert Nomad House, built in 2005, which is composed...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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All great art engages in a dialogue with the past. Architecture is no exception, as this film shows in its examination of the legacy of Sir John Soane (1753-1837), an English architect of rare genius whose influence on a generation of America's foremost architects is profound. Among them, Henry Cobb, Michael Graves, Philip Johnson, Richard Meier, Robert Stern, Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi, all acknowledge their debt to Soane and his idiosyncratic...
10) The art of immutable architecture: theory and practice of data management in distributed systems
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Apress
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
This book teaches you how to evaluate a distributed system from the perspective of immutable objects. You will understand the problems in existing designs, know how to make small modifications to correct those problems, and learn to apply the principles of immutable architecture to your tools. Most software components focus on the state of objects. They store the current state of a row in a relational database. They track changes to state over time,...
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