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Space Tessellations
Tackling a topic that has particular appeal in the age of digital design, this well-founded introduction to the subject of parquet deformation fills a gap. These subtle, intricate geometric transformations, best known through the "Metamorphosis" series by M. C. Escher, were introduced to design curricula by American professor William S. Huff in the 1960s. The book brings together scholarly articles by the most important authors in the field and material collected in the archives of the Ulm School of Design in Germany, juxtaposed with extensive illustrations of two- and three-dimensional works created at the Vienna University of Technology. Written for anyone interested in the fields of design and geometry, this book aims to inform and inspire.
Geometric Foundations Of Design: Old And New
This book is meant to serve either as a textbook for an interdisciplinary course in Mathematics of Design, or as a trade book for designers. It will also be of interest for people interested in recreational mathematics showing the connection between mathematics and design. Topics from the book can also be adapted for use in pre-college mathematics. Each chapter will provide the user with ideas that can be incorporated in a design. Background materials will be provided to show the reader the mathematical principles that lie behind the designs.
Bold Ventures
'Bold Ventures resembles a pop version of Iain Sinclair's psychogeography or Out of Sheer Rage, Geoff Dyer's anti-biography of DH Lawrence' Olivia Laing, GUARDIAN 'A marvel: a monument to human beings continuing to reach for the skies, even after their plans dissolve in dust' NEW YORK TIMES In thirteen chapters, Belgian poet Charlotte Van den Broeck goes in search of buildings that were fatal for their architects - architects who either killed themselves or are rumoured to have done so. They range across time and space from a church with a twisted spire built in seventeenth-century France to a theatre that collapsed mid-performance in 1920s Washington, DC., and an eerily sinking swimming poo...
Saltos mortales
Oscilando con elegancia entre la reflexión ensayística y la descripción narrativa de su propio proceso de crecimiento personal, Charlotte Van den Broeck presenta trece miniaturas sobre la tragedia personal y profesional de diversos arquitectos que, incapaces de confrontar su propio fracaso, tomaron la radical decisión de quitarse la vida. Con un lenguaje poético, descarnado y sincero, Van den Broeck se adentra en los vericuetos de la mente y nos propone un viaje a los desafíos de la creación a través de piscinas, teatros, bibliotecas, museos, iglesias, cuarteles, oficinas de correos, villas, campos de golf y jardines de esculturas de Europa y Estados Unidos. Una indagación fascinant...
The Dictionary of Art: A to Anckermann
Online ed. provides access to the entire 45,000-plus articles of Grove's Dictionary of art (1996, 34 vols.) with constant additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links.
France and the Visual Arts since 1945
Taking on the myth of France's creative exhaustion following World War II, this collection of essays brings together an international team of scholars, whose research offers English readers a rich and complex overview of the place of France and French artists in the visual arts since 1945. Addressing a wide range of artistic practices, spanning over seven decades, and using different methodologies, their contributions cover ground charted and unknown. They introduce greater depth and specificity to familiar artists and movements, such as Lettrism, Situationist International or Nouveau Réalisme, while bringing to the fore lesser known artists and groups, including GRAPUS, the Sociological Ar...
Wagnisse
Der gefeierte Bestseller über die Kühnheit und das Scheitern, über das Leben und die Kunst, nicht nur für Architekturfans. Eine sündhaft teure Schwimmhalle versinkt im morastigen Grund. Ein Kirchturm beugt sich nach Fertigstellung "wie ein geknickter Phallus". Vier Toiletten werden geplant - für 2400 Soldaten. 13 Architekten misslingt ihr Bauwerk. Alle 13 Architekten begehen Suizid, weil sie das Scheitern nicht ertragen. Die Lyrikerin Charlotte van den Broeck besucht diese 13 zeitgenössischen wie einige Jahrhunderte alten Gebäude, recherchiert, einer investigativen Journalistin gleich, Leben und Wirken der Architekten, die finanziellen und die gesellschaftshistorischen Umstände, unt...
Tentatives périlleuses
Légende urbaine ou geste désespéré ? L'architecte de la piscine de Turnhout, accablé par les dysfonctionnements incessants de l'infrastructure, se serait pendu dans le sous-sol. Pour Charlotte Van den Broeck, qui a grandi dans cette ville et fréquenté le bassin, le mystère reste entier. Toutefois, c'est cette histoire qui a éveillé en elle l'envie de débusquer ces architectes que la quête d'absolu, l'audace ou l'orgueil ont poussé à rêver trop grand. De l'opéra national de Vienne à la villa Ebe à Naples, de l'église Saint-Omer de Verchin au Fort George en Écosse, ces édifices ont entraîné la chute de leurs bâtisseurs. Tentatives périlleuses navigue entre l'essai, le reportage et le récit autobiographique. En explorant ces treize constructions, Charlotte Van den Broeck leur restitue un visage, une identité charnelle. Au cours de son enquête sur le désir parfois démesuré du créateur, elle se livre non sans malice à travers une réflexion lucide sur l'exigence de l'artiste et l'obsession de la perfection.
Memories of the Apollo and Space Shuttle Programs
I have had the privilege of being an engineer who worked on both the Apollo and Space Shuttle Orbiter Programs for more than 45 years. It has been a fascinating and rewarding experience, along with its share of pressures and disappointments. Come take this exciting journey with me. In this book I present the contributions of 30 key scientists who, over a period of 2500 years, made the Moon visit possible in my lifetime. I review the birth of the Space Age, early Russian dominance in the sixties, and the successful landing on the Moon. The details of the failure analyses of the Apollo Fire, which cost the lives of three Apollo astronauts, are presented, along with the corrective actions taken...
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