Chandigarh's Le Corbusier. The Struggle for Modernity in Postcolonial India, Hardback - Vikramaditya Prakash

Tells the story that lies behind the planning and architecture of Punjab's capital, Chandigarh. This title traces the cultural preconceptions and i...

This book uncovers an endemic link between micro-practice of archaeology in the trenches of Archaeological Survey of India to the manufacture of ar...

An exploration of the friendship between Italian artist Costatino Nivola and Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbusier, and of the evolution of Le Corbus...

By exploring themes of fragility, mobility and turmoil, anxieties and agency, and pedagogy, this book shows how colonialism shaped postcolonial pro...

Reducere. In June 2013, The Museum of Modern Art presents the largest exhibition ever produced on Le Corbusier's prolific oeuvre, encompassing his work as ar...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Akshya SaxenaIllustration(s): 15 b/w illus.Number of pages: 232Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 32...

Reducere. Between 1945 and 1967, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) planned and built five "Unit s d'habitation" in Marseille, Rez , Berlin, Briey-en-For t and Firminy...

Although demographically a minority in Kerala, India, Syrian Christians are not a subordinated community. They are caste-, race-, and class-privile...

Le Corbusiers development was inextricably connected to the rise of the centurys popular visual medium: photography. This book traces the many ways...

Conceptualizes "graft"- the violent and creative processes of suturing arts as a method of empire building in western eighteenth-century IndiaPubli...

Merging the histories of capitalism with political and cultural analysis, Gibbings demonstrates how the struggle between indigenous people and sett...

Basic Architecture features: Each title contains approximately 120 images, including photographs, sketches, drawings, and floor plans Introductory ...

Through the process of redrawing the plans of a wide range of completed projects by Le Corbusier, this book offers a new interpretation of his arch...

DescriptionLe Corbusier s Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut is one of the most unique and surprising religious buildings of the 20th century. In Roncham...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Benedicte SavoyIllustration(s): 11 color + 6 b/w illus.Translator: Susanne Meyer-AbichNumber of pag...

Revised and expanded edition of this comprehensive study of Le Corbusier

Reducere. Cartea are forma unui interviu cu 30 de intrebari pe care i Nelu Stratone i le adreseaza lui Costin Petrescu. Iar in raspunsurile sale, Costin Petr...

A thrilling and incisive examination of the post-Reconstruction era struggle for and suppression of African American voting rights in the United St...

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Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Amelie Le RenardTranslator: Jane KuntzNumber of pages: 256Collection: Worlding the Middle EastPublic...

Reducere. This classic book offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of Slovakia, from its establishment on the Danubian Plain to the present. Wh...

Description"The truth is, decorative art is equipment, beautiful equipment, " Le Corbusier, L'Art decoratif d'aujourd'hui This book traces the hist...

Reducere. Expansive and ambitious yet comprehensive and coherent, From Slavery to Services: The Struggle for Economic Independence in the Caribbean is a tour...

Reducere. For the Swiss-born architect and city planner Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, 1887 1965), architecture constituted a noble art, an exalted...

This important volume traces efforts to advance the socialist goal through the organization of revolutionary collectives, engaging with a pantheon ...

In the years 1942 to 1948, Le Corbusier developed a system of measurements which became known as "Modulor." Based on the Golden Section and Fibonac...

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Description"Each day of my life has been dedicated in part to drawing. I have never stopped drawing and painting, seeking, where I could find them,...

This unique appraisal of the famous Swiss architect's major works have now been expanded to include two more building. The Villa Shodhan and the Pa...

Intre Pheonix si... Le Corbusier - Costin Petrescu, Nelu Stratone

DescriptionFrom the award-winning author of Wrestling with Moses comes a fascinating, accessible biography of the most important architect of the t...

As Robert Fishman writes of three of urban planning's greatest visionaries, Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, they 'hated the c...

A first look at how the world's rising powers began international oil empires amidst one of Africa's longest and deadliest civil war.

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Reducere. Cartea are forma unui interviu cu 30 de intrebari pe care i Nelu Stratone i le adreseaza lui Costin Petrescu. Iar in raspunsurile sale, Costin Petr...

Reducere. Robert Mugabe came to power in Zimbabwe in 1980 after a long civil war in Rhodesia. The white minority government had become an international outca...

Reducere. As the father of the nuclear powered Navy, Adm. Hyman G. Rickover was a pivotal figure in twentieth-century American history. While many books have...

A unique approach to studying police forces around the globe.Publisher: SAGE Publications IncAuthor(s): Ibrahim CerrahNumber of pages: 432Publicati...

Le Corbusier is a Modernist icon whose buildings and theories have influenced structures the world over. Now you can create 10 of his most importan...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this profusely illustrated study, a noted furniture designer brings together more than 40 examples of chairs that combine practicalit...

Reducere. This book is a revised and extended version of the article that I wrote and published in 1996, 22 years ago now, which for some time I have felt th...

Leading interdisciplinary scholars focus on the 'social' of social policy. This ground-breaking volume tackles pressing 'social questions' and crit...

A diverse and innovative collection that explores the radical and innovative ways in which public services in the global south are being remade fro...

Winner of the National Jewish Book AwardWinner of the Washington Institute Book PrizeOne of the Best Books of the YearSt. Louis Post-Dispatch * Kir...

Publisher: Gaia Project PressAuthor(s): Jai RedmanIllustration(s): 82 colourNumber of pages: 80Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 165 x 189 x 10Cove...