World of Books - Find your book here

The Architecture of the Jumping Universe: A Polemic : how ...

The Architecture of the Jumping Universe: A Polemic : how ...

Charles Jencks

His teleology may transcend what architects are used to, but Jencks manages to make far more sense out of our contemporary architectural dilemmas than practically all the other books in the RIBA book shop.
The iconic building

The iconic building

Charles Jencks

Charles Jencks, the leading architectural critic and writer, takes on "trendiness" in architecture: namely the rise of the "iconic building," instantly famous and distinctively recognizable structures like Norman Foster's "Gherkin" in ...
Adhocism: The Case for Improvisation

Adhocism: The Case for Improvisation

Charles Jencks

Originally published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972.
Free-style classicism

Free-style classicism

Charles Jencks

Looks at new buildings around the world and discusses how architects have used elements of classical architecture in creating modern designs
Project Japan: Metabolism Talks

Project Japan: Metabolism Talks

Rem Koolhaas

The story that unfolds is illuminated, contradicted and validated by commentaries from a broad range their forebearers, associates, critics, and progeny, includingToyo Ito and Charles Jencks.
Adhocism: The Case for Improvisation

Adhocism: The Case for Improvisation

Charles Jencks

When this book first appeared in 1972, it was part of the spirit that would define a new architecture and design era--a new way of thinking ready to move beyond the purist doctrines and formal models of modernism.
Theories and manifestoes of contemporary architecture

Theories and manifestoes of contemporary architecture

Charles Jencks

This is now ejected with greater currency with extracts from: Cecil Balmond, Foreign Office Architects, Daniel Libeskind, MVRDV, Lars Spuybroek, UN Studio and West 8.
The New Paradigm in Architecture: The Language of Post-modernism

The New Paradigm in Architecture: The Language of Post-modernism

Charles Jencks

This book explores the broad issue of Postmodernism and tells the story of the movement that has changed the face of architecture over the last forty years.
What is post-modernism?

What is post-modernism?

Charles Jencks

Provides a lucid exposition of Post-Modernism in art and architecture. This book clarifies a tradition that is thriving but still very much misunderstood.
A Knight of the Nets

A Knight of the Nets

Amelia E. Barr

... Catherine Parr Traill Charles A. Eastman Charles Dickens Charles Dudley Warner Charles Farrar Browne Charles Ives Charles Kingsley Charles Lathrop Pack Charles Whibley Charles Willing Beale Charlotte M. Braeme Charlotte M. Yonge ...
Letters of the king of England

Letters of the king of England

Halliwell-Phillipps

Charles I. to Richard Browne 1643 343 Charles I. to prince Maurice . . , 1643 343 Charles I. to the mayor of Newbury 1643 344 Charles I. to the queen 1644 344 Charles I. to general Goring 1644 145 Charles I. to the earl of Newcastle . , 1644  ...
The Routledge Companion for Architecture Design and ...

The Routledge Companion for Architecture Design and ...

Preview

Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press. Hayles, N.K. & Gannon, T. (2012). Virtual Architecture, Actual Media. In C. Greig Crysler, S. Cairns, and H. Heynen ( Eds). The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory. London: Sage. Jencks, C. ( 1977).
Narrative Inquiries of School Reform: Storied Lives, Storied ...

Narrative Inquiries of School Reform: Storied Lives, Storied ...

Preview

Charles and I unpacked the root of the problem in the following exchange: Cheryl : Charles: Cheryl: Charles: Cheryl: Charles: Cheryl: Charles: Cheryl: Charles: What do you think caused the problem with the [first story of reform—the state ...
The Boston Directory

The Boston Directory

Read

Hunt Charles. ship and freight broker, 156 State, bds. 65 Hancock Hunt Charles. h. Nep. av. near Chickatawbut, Nep. Hunt Charles A. boards 17 Green. Charlestown Hunt Charles А. machinist, house 54 (lates Hunt Charles E. clerk, 60 11igh,h ...
The roster of Union soldiers, 1861-1865

The roster of Union soldiers, 1861-1865

More editions

D Blanchard, Charles 30th Inf. Co.G Blanchard, Charles 73rd Inf. Co.A Blanchard , Charles 77th Inf. Co.A Blanchard, Charles 89th Inf. Co.I Sgt. Blanchard, Chas. 92nd Inf. Co.D Blanchard, Charles 123rd Inf. Co.D Blanchard, Charles 153rd Inf.
John Charles Fremont: The Pathfinder

John Charles Fremont: The Pathfinder

Charles W. Maynard

His father, also named John Charles, was from France. Anne Beverley Whiting, John Charles's mother, was the daughter of Colonel Thomas Whiting of Richmond, Virginia. When John Charles was only five years old, his father died.
The genuine works of Charles Cotton

The genuine works of Charles Cotton

Charles Cotton

Charles Cotton. SCAR RONID ES; OR, Virgil Travestie. A MOCK-POEM In Imitation of the FOURTH BOOK O F FIRGIL's Æneis, In Englifo Burlesque, By CHARLES COTTON, Esq; The Fourteenth Edition. .f v. '-.-' a .a J V ' -'. .1.
The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb

The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb

In the year 1795, Charles Lamb resided with his father, mother, and sister, in lodgings at No. ... whom he had faithfully served for many years ; Charles's salary , which, being that of a clerk of three years' standing in the India House, could have ...
Papers by Command

Papers by Command

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons

Mr. CHARLES PIERCE MERRIAM called. Examined by the Chairman. Mr. CHARLES PIERCE MERRIAM. Mr. CHARLES PIERCE MERRIA.M. Mr. CHARLES. 6 February 1913.] [Continued. the platform. As he wiped the commutator with Borne ...
Report

Report

More editions

Mr. CHARLEs PIERCE MERRIAM called. Examined by the Chairman. Mr. CHARLES PIERCE MERRIAM. Mr. CHARLEs PIERCE MERRIAM. Mr. CHARLEs . 6 February 1913.] the platform. As he wiped the commutator with some cotton waste a ...
A Southern Practice: The Diary and Autobiography of Charles ...

A Southern Practice: The Diary and Autobiography of Charles ...

Charles Arnould Hentz

The Diary and Autobiography of Charles A. Hentz, M.D. Charles Arnould Hentz Steven M. Stowe. "Readers of Charles Hentz's diary and autobiography will find themselves immersed in the world of the mid-nineteenth-century South as seen ...
Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors, County of Orange, ...

Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors, County of Orange, ...

Orange County (N.Y.). Board of Supervisors

... Wilson 1897 Charles H. Weygant 1898 Charles H. Weygand 1899 Charles H. Weygant 1900 Charles H. Weygant 1901 Charles H. Weygant 1902 Charles H. Weygant 1903 John Templeton 1904 John Templeton 1905 John Templeton 1906 ...
Descendants of Cornelius Comegys in North America

Descendants of Cornelius Comegys in North America

Elma Fraser Perry

341 Charles Henry (C 1811823) (1869-1920).....232, 239 CharlesL ( C1311172541)(1904- ) . ... 158 Charles Page (C 1311172531) (1898-1939) . ... 317 Charles Wesley (C 13542237) (1869-1952) 110, 150, 151 Charles Wesley ( UCF [26]) .
Memorial to My Honored Kindred

Memorial to My Honored Kindred

Charles William Darling

Abigail Darling, b. 1746, d. 1818. Samuel Darling, b. 1 751, d. 1842. Charles Chauncey, b. 1747, d. 1823. Clarinda Ely, b. 1759, d. 1847. Charles Chauncey Darling=Adeline Eliza Dana b. 1799, d. 1887. I b. 1798, d. 1882. Charles W. Darling ...
A Short and Easie Method with the Jews ... By Charles ...

A Short and Easie Method with the Jews ... By Charles ...

Charles LESLIE (M.A.)

Charles LESLIE (M.A.). 5. That promisei concerning the temple of Solomon, that God's name should be there for ever, and perpetually, cannot be verified, but as it was a type of the Christian church, which shall I~ last for ever. For types, as ...
Mexican American Literature

Mexican American Literature

Charles M. Tatum

Charles M. Tatum. Mexican American LITERATURE General Editor Charles Tatum Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers Charles Tatum (Ph.D., University of New Mexico) is Head of Orlando San Diego Chicago Dallas.

who called from an unknown number?