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ARCHITECTURE – Aldo Rossi – Scholastic Building
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Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategies in the Work of Eight Contemporary Architects $26.15 The internationally acclaimed architect Rafael Moneo is known to be a courageous architect. His major works include the Houston Museum of Fine Art, Davis Art Museum at Wellesley College, the Stockholm Museum of Modern Art and Architecture, and the Potzdammer Platz Hotel in Berlin. Now Moneo will be known as a daring critic as well… |
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The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed $5.95 A world-famous luxury brand, financial skullduggery, vicious family quarrels ending in a sensational murder: the Gucci story just couldn’t be juicier, and former Women’s Wear Daily correspondent Sara Gay Forden does full justice to its gossipy appeal. Guccio Gucci opened his first leather-goods store in Florence in 1921, but it was his son Aldo who expanded the company overseas and made products l… |
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The Architecture of the City (Oppositions Books) $21.75 Aldo Rossi, a practicing architect and leader of the Italian architectural movement La Tendenza, is also one of the most influential theorists writing today. The Architecture of the City is his major work of architectural and urban theory. In part a protest against functionalism and the Modern Movement, in part an attempt to resto… |
