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Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture)

Witold Rybczynski, Laurie Olin University of Pennsylvania Press University of Pennsylvania Press
The Miami estate of Vizcaya, like its palatial contemporaries Biltmore and San Simeon, represents an achievement of the Gilded Age, when country houses and their gardens were a conspicuous measure of personal wealth and power. In Vizcaya: An...
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The Look of Architecture

Witold Rybczynski Oxford University Press, USA Oxford University Press, USA
What is style in architecture? "Style is like a feather in a woman's hat, nothing more," said Le Corbusier, expressing most modern architects' low regard for the subject. But Witold Rybczynski disagrees, and in The Look of Architecture, he makes a...
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The Perfect House: A Journey with Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio

Witold Rybczynski Scribner Scribner
The bestselling author of ONE GOOD TURN pursues his most appropriate subject yet: Andrea Palladio, the Shakespeare of Renaissance architects, who gave us the word 'Palladian' but about whom little is known. A journey along the Brenta River in...
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Designed for Delight: Alternative Aspects of Twentieth-Century Decorative Arts

Flammarion Flammarion
By the early part of this century, the principles of Modernism in design-- simplicity of form, little or no ornament, truth to materials-- were established as avant-garde ideas, and functionalism soon became an overriding concern. However, looking...
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Most Beautiful House in the World

Witold Rybczynski Topeka Bindery Topeka Bindery
A book about architecture: what architects do, how they get it right, what an architectural genius can see, and what distinguishes architecture from other arts.
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