TITLE: Swan Song of My Era AUTHOR: Elsie Swain PUBLISHER: Okiyoto Publishing RELEASE DATE: April 13, 2021 GENRES: YA Contemporary| Musing Of Souls
While this falls under the category of a book review what we really have here, as the title suggests, is a collection of curated excerpts from manifestos, essays, letters, and the like from the who's who of the Modernist architectural avant-garde. It begins with an out of context figure associated with Art Nouveau, Henry vad de Velde, but quickly moves on to the grandfather of architectural Modernism, Adolf Loos with an excerpt from his essay Ornament and Crime. From there it briskly moves on...| TradArch
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture| TradArch
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Contributed by Patrick Webb| TradArch
I read 7 books in the last half of the year (excluding “work” books and what I read with my daughter): The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle The 5AM Club, Robin Sharma A Perfect Spy, John le Carré Slow Horses, Mick Herron Quiet: The Power of Introverts, Susan Cain Leonardo Da Vinci, Walter Isaacson Moving […]| Shaun Abram
We were fortunate enough to have Eric Boles as our keynote speaker at a company event in June 2024, and I decided to follow up by reading his book Moving to Great. Boles is a motivational speaker & leadership coach and shares his path from a scrawny kid to a “collegiate All-American” athlete, being drafted […]| Shaun Abram
After reading The Mona Lisa Vanishes by Nicholas Day with my daughter, I expressed an interest in learning more about Leonardo Da Vinci. Sure enough, she gifted me the wonderful Leonardo Da Vinci, by Walter Isaacson as a Christmas gift, and I had finished the 600+ pages by New Year’s Eve. I loved it. Leonardo […]| Shaun Abram