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This book presents a compelling examination of underlying issues in late twentieth century architecture using three trajectories-the plan as conceptual device, a logic of sensation, and temporalities. In so doing it argues for the latent potential in modern architecture's traditions and design principles and their future expression.

This book presents a compelling examination of underlying issues in late twentieth century architecture using three trajectories-the plan as conceptual device, a logic of sensation, and temporalities. In so doing it argues for the latent potential in modern architecture's traditions and design principles and their future expression.

This book examines the central decades of Peter Eisenman's work through a formal and thematic analysis of key architectural projects and writings, revealing underlying characteristics and arguing for their productive continuity and transformative role.

PARABLE FOR MODERN TIMES…Roman didn't believe in magic or miracles. He believed in personal responsibility and making things happen. He was a force of nature in the corporate world…until his little girl died. That's when he lost his reason.Blair believed in magic and miracles. She was born a witch, and then married a Christian minister that confirmed all of A her faith in the supernatural. She thought her marriage would last forever, then it s...

PARABLE FOR MODERN TIMES…Roman didn't believe in magic or miracles. He believed in personal responsibility and making things happen. He was a force of nature in the corporate world…until his little girl died. That's when he lost his reason.Blair believed in magic and miracles. She was born a witch, and then married a Christian minister that confirmed all of A her faith in the supernatural. She thought her marriage would last forever, then it s...

Some family curses really should be passed on... Tommy Roling does everything humanly possible to raise his infant daughter Corinne the right way. But a half year out of high school, Tommy finds himself a single parent as well as flat broke. And, with every full moon, he can't fight the urge to strip off his clothes and run wild through the pastures outside town. So when a stranger shows up, slashed to death, the day after Tommy's most recent ...

First contact between a priest and an alien... Less than a dozen years from now, over thirty black ships containing the aliens the world will come to know as the Wannoshay arrive on the frozen earth of the Great Plains of America and Canada. When communications break down between the military personnel of the humans and the leaders of the Wannoshay, Father Joshua McDowell gets a chance to make first contact with the aliens. And just as he thin...

Retirement: it's not just for the elderly. Thirty-six-year-old JB lives to inspire the old folks at Whispering Pines Rest Home. He listens to their stories, encourages them to get some fresh air, and makes sure they aren't just sitting around waiting for the end to come. But he's not a doctor, not a therapist. He's a resident of Whispering Pines, too. When the finances for Whispering Pines hit the skids, the Home starts to earn the wrong kind ...

Three generations of Koopmans live-uneasily-under the same roof of a farm house twenty miles from the center of Holy Cross, Iowa. Thirty-year-old William Koopman needs to move out. But Dad wanted him on the farm after Grandpa died, so William stayed, married his girl Marcy, and even brought her to the farmhouse to live. The poor girl made it a year before she bolted at the end of a rough winter. A week after Marcy leaves, William's shiftless y...

Sometimes you eat the forest, sometimes the forest eats you. What would you do if your child was lost, and-even though you'd never admit this to anyone-it was all your fault? How would you react? Would you be a hero or a coward? And just how would you get your innocent child out of this situation? These are all questions Gil Anderson faces when his five-year-old son goes missing somewhere in the dark trees at the edge of the family farm. On th...

An unlikely team of misfit players, and the coach fighting to hold them all together... In his first season as head coach of the All Nations team, former slave George Grunion contends with racist crowds, low team morale, and... the ghost of the previous head coach. And if George can't hold the All Nations together, he loses more than his job and his team. He'll miss his chance to fulfill the prophecy made by his prescient centerfielder Mack - ...

A haunted romance. An unsolved mystery. And a centuries-old curse at the heart of it all. Off the rough coast of North Carolina's Outer Banks, Ella Simon tracks down one man-the infamous pirate Blackbeard. She must identify a shipwreck off the coast of the island, but she and her divemaster Mitch Thompson discover much more than that. They just have to stay alive long enough to solve the mystery of a young girl's killer before the ghosts of de...

Contagious magic: good luck trying to find a cure... Two minutes after the shocking end to A Wild Epidemic of Magic, this third book in the series finds Kelley and Jeroan stranded in Dubuque, Iowa, after losing their parents-and all the Sorcerers they met in the past two months-to the vengeful Druid. Apparently, the Druid did not enjoy his 200-year banishment. And as if that wasn't bad enough, the twins must once again work together to find a ...

Sometimes those who can't be found just might not be lost... As the co-founders of Finders, Inc., Hank Johnson and Bim Mayer spent the past two decades successfully solving mysteries and-almost miraculously, in many instances-finding missing people in the remote mountain town of Boone, North Carolina. Until now. Their most recent case deals with an outbreak of missing elderly people, all of whom used to teach at nearby Appalachian State Univer...

Magic: It can show up in the strangest places... An old man sleeping in a cardboard box in snowy Chicago holds the secret of sorcery in his head. Thanks to the damage done to him by using magic decades ago, he doesn't realize it. Most days he can't even remember his own name. But when two teens try to jump him in an alley, the magic Words come back to him at last, and he "infects" the kids with magic. And soon Chicago has a wild epidemic of ma...

240 cm - so gross ist üblicherweise der Abstand zwischen Boden und Decke in modernen Wohnbauten: die Höhe des leeren Raums, den wir bewohnen. In ihrer Präzision und semantischen Leere reflektiert diese Zahl auch den Stand der heutigen Innenarchitektur. Als Begleitpublikation zum Schweizer Pavillon der diesjährigen Architekturbiennale Venedig geht House Tour einem Innenraum auf den Grund, der uns allen vertraut, wenn auch scheinbar unbewohnt is...

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Our generation made hip-hop. But hip-hop also made us. Why are suburban kids referring to their subdivision as "block”? Why has the pimp become a figure of male power? Why has dodging the feds become an act of honor long after one has made millions as a legitimate artist? What happens when fantasy does more harm than reality?—From the IntroductionHip-hop culture has been in the mainstream for years. Suburban teens take their fashion cues from ...