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Vitruvius on the plains : architectural thought at Kansas, 1912-2012 / edited by Stephen Grabow.
LIBRA NA2500 .V567 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- University of Kansas. School of Architecture, Design & Planning--History.
- University of Kansas.
- Architecture--Philosophy.
- Architecture.
- Architecture--Study and teaching (Higher).
- Architecture, Modern.
- Architectural design.
- Architectural practice.
- Architecture--United States--History.
- History.
- United States.
- Architecture--Study and teaching (Higher)--Kansas--Lawrence--History.
- Kansas--Lawrence.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lawrence, KS : School of Architecture, Design & Planning, University of Kansas, [2012]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Excellence from the start
- I remember McKim, Mead & White
- Goldwin Goldsmith
- Architectural design at KU
- Joseph M. Kellog
- In the interest of architectural design
- George Beal
- Introduction and arrival at Taliesin
- Curtis Besinger
- Arhcitecture for people: The utilization of history
- Eugene George
- Introduction to light: The shape of space
- Lou Michel
- Modern Structure
- Bezaleel S. Benjamin
- Toward a new history of architecture
- Basil Honikman
- Frozen music: The bridge between art and science
- Stephen Grabow
- Temporary landscapes
- James M. Mayo
- Saving energy in old buildings
- Christopher Theis
- Building memory: An apologia for the senses
- Dennis Domer
- Political knowledge and the architectural studio
- Elliot Littman, James M. Mayo and Peter Burgess
- Christopher Wren, Christian Cabala and the Tree of Life
- Steven Padget The outline of a model for the development of built forms of the plains
- Harris Stone
- The studio as workplace: Architecture from Monday to Friday
- Barry Newton
- Studio 804: A paradigm shift
- Dan Rockhill
- Many dwellings: Views of a pueblo world
- David G. Saile
- Fictional constructs
- J. William Carswell
- The future isn't what it used to be
- Victor Papanek
- The electronic workplace as public domain
- Kent F. Spreckelmeyer
- Architects and amenagement: Responsibilities in environmental resource planning
- Donna Luckey
- Reflections on monumentality
- Wojciech G. Lesnikowski
- When writers had the "public ear": Andrew Jackson Downing, William Cullen Bryant and the Parks Movement
- Judith K. Major
- The educational value of the Quindaro Townsite in the twenty-first century
- Michael M. Swan
- Practice in the postmodern ethos: The divided body
- John C. Gaunt
- Seven townhouses for Berlin Johanne Nalbach
- Introduction to social architecture: Is humanitarian architecture the last expression of humanist thought?
- Phillippe Barriere
- BIM in academia: Shifting our attention form product to process
- Paola Sanguinetti
- Recycling the margins: Rethinking the role of architecture in everyday urban places
- Shannon Criss
- Craft and innovation: Serious play and the direct experience of the real
- Nils Gore
- Altered reality
- Peter Pran
- The representation of making in urban form
- Murali Ramaswami
- The relationship between geometry and numeric ratio as an open problem in Ledoux's architecture: A study of the floor plans of the Barrieres of Paris
- Mahbub Rashid
- Placetelling
- Keith Diaz-Moore
- Symbolic integrity of historic urban landscapes: The forgotten dimension in urban conservation
- Kapila Silva
- Reflections on architectural thought at Kansas.
- Notes:
- "This publication marking the centennial of architectural education at the University of Kansas consists of a selection of faculty writings since 1912"--Page 4 of cover.
- Contributions by Goldwin Goldsmith and others.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Vitruvius on the plains.
- ISBN:
- 9780932845832
- 0932845835
- OCLC:
- 778115401
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