The Stahl House: Case Study House #22
The Stahl House: Case Study House #22

Author: Bruce Stahl

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2021-11-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1797214977

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The Stahl House: Case Study House #22, The Making of a Modernist Icon is the official autobiography of this world-renowned architectural gem by the family that made it their home. Considered one of the most iconic and recognizable examples of mid-century modern homes in the world, the Stahl House was first envisioned by the owners Buck and Carlotta Stahl, designed by architect Pierre Koenig, and immortalized by photographer Julius Shulman. This 1960 glass-and-steel home in the Hollywood Hills has come to embody the idealism of a generation in search of the American dream. As one of the Case Study Houses designed between 1945 and 1966 under the vision of John Entenza and Arts & Architecture magazine, this was an affordable yet progressive design experiment to address the postwar housing shortage. The result—a two-bedroom, 2,300-square-foot house with glass walls that disappear into a 270-degree panorama of Los Angeles—became Koenig's pièce de résistance. The Stahl House broke rules, defied building codes that discouraged building on cliffs, and expanded the possibilities of residential architecture. The glass walls blurred the boundary between indoors and outdoors. The building seemed to merge with the city itself, the lines of the structure aligning with the geometry of the city's gridded streets. "Los Angeles becomes an extension of the house and vice versa," Koenig said. "The house is just a part of the city." The book shares the never-before-told inside story by the Stahl family's adult children who grew up there and still graciously give home tours to fans from around the world. Through extensive research and interviews, historical information and personal photos are featured. This includes Buck Stahl's initial vision of the home with his own DIY schematic model for how to build on the complicated site. It also includes blueprints, floor plans, and sketches by Pierre Koenig, as well as Julius Shulman's renowned photographs. Additionally, photographs of the house used in high-end, fashion ad campaigns and film and television are also included, cementing The Stahl House's prominence in contemporary culture.

Broke
Broke

Author: Laura T. Hamilton

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2021-02-16

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 022674759X

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Public research universities were previously able to provide excellent education to white families thanks to healthy government funding. However, that funding has all but dried up in recent decades as historically underrepresented students have gained greater access, and now less prestigious public universities face major economic challenges. In Broke, Laura T. Hamilton and Kelly Nielsen examine virtually all aspects of campus life to show how the new economic order in public universities, particularly at two campuses in the renowned University of California system, affects students. For most of the twentieth century, they show, less affluent families of color paid with their taxes for wealthy white students to attend universities where their own offspring were not welcome. That changed as a subset of public research universities, some quite old, opted for a “new” approach, making racially and economically marginalized youth the lifeblood of the university. These new universities, however, have been particularly hard hit by austerity. To survive, they’ve had to adapt, finding new ways to secure funding and trim costs—but ultimately it’s their students who pay the price, in decreased services and inadequate infrastructure. ? The rise of new universities is a reminder that a world-class education for all is possible. Broke shows us how far we are from that ideal and sets out a path for how we could get there.

The Second Chronicle
The Second Chronicle

Author: Andrew Das Arulsamy

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-09-02

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 0359887287

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This book records the events that have occurred prior to eachpublished scientific research paper authored by A D Arulsamy.The chronological narratives shall objectively expose thesequence of events that have prompted the research for eachpublication, including some personal excursions.Along the way, we shall come to see why and how theCondensed Matter Group is formed, and subsequently howthe Institute of Interdisciplinary Science has come to existence as an entity that addresses some of the most important and fundamental questions of our natural world and universe.

The Nan Chronicle
The Nan Chronicle

Author: David K. Wyatt

Publisher: SEAP Publications

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9780877277156

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Cover; TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; The Nan Chronicle and its Sources; 1. Main Manuscript (MS.1); 2. Shorter Version (MS.2); 3. Reliquary Chronicles; 4. The ""History of the Founding of Nan; 5. The ""Old Chronicle; 6. The ""Royal Genealogy; 7. The ""History of Nan and Treatise on Medicine; 8. Miscellaneous Manuscripts; The Lineage of the Texts; The Language of the Texts; Editing Procedures; Romanization; Possible Future Directions; ÂRAMBHAKATHÂ; INVOCATION; CHAPTER ONE -- ORIGINS OF THE MÜANG; CHAPTER TWO -- THE THAI KAO RULERS, CA. 1300-1448.

A Liberal Chronicle in Peace and War
A Liberal Chronicle in Peace and War

Author: Cameron Hazlehurst

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2023-06-15

Total Pages: 597

ISBN-13: 019288705X

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Jack Pease was at the heart of the British Liberal government from 1908 to 1915, holding the position of Chief Whip through two general elections, and a member of the Cabinet confronting domestic tumult, international tensions, and war. Pease was an unassuming participant in the deliberations of a unique gathering of political talent. His journals as President of the Board of Education from 1911 to the formation of the coalition ministry in 1915 are a closely observed, unvarnished record of what he saw and heard in Downing St and Westminster: constitutional and Home Rule crises, industrial conflict, electoral reform, women's suffrage controversies, struggles over budgets, naval estimates, and foreign policy. Despite his Quaker beliefs, Pease committed to supporting war against Germany, and his troubled conscience is laid bare in letters to his wife and friends. Replete with intimate portraits of his revered chief H. H. Asquith and the Prime Minister's social circle, the journals also provide evocative observations of the contest of ideas, arguments, and moods of prominent contemporaries, especially David Lloyd George as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Winston Churchill as Home Secretary then First Lord of the Admiralty, and Lord Kitchener as Secretary of State for War. Pease's candid accounts, augmented by the diaries and letters of others privy to Cabinet policy secrets and personal rivalries, reveal the stories not told in the Prime Minister's reports to the King. Together with the editors' biographical introduction, extensive explanatory commentaries, and bibliographical guidance, Pease's text provides a uniquely comprehensive understanding of Asquith's Liberal government in peace and war.

Studies on the Illuminated Chronicle
Studies on the Illuminated Chronicle

Author: János M. Bak

Publisher: Central European University Press

Published: 2018-07-01

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9633862620

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The present volume of studies is the first Subsidium of the Central European Medieval Text series, accompanying CEMT vol. 9 on the Illuminated Chronicle (formerly called the Vienna Chronicle), written in the fourteenth century, which represents the international artistic style at the royal court of Louis I of Hungary. The volume of the text and its annotations did not allow including the detailed scholarly introduction into the same volume as is the custom with the other CEMT items. The essays in the book analyze the text and the illuminations of the Illuminated Chronicle in literaryhistorical, art historical and heraldic context. The relevant literature that goes back to more than 200 years is also summarized. Additional studies address issues connected with the narrative. Since the chronicle starts with the history of the Huns, imaginary ancestors of the Hungarians, the Attila tradition in Hungarian history writing is discussed. Extensive coverage is offered on the dynastic struggles of the eleventh century, placing them into the context of amicitia and deditio. The image of King St. Ladislas I as the "ideal king" is reviewed, a topic that received conspicuously detailed coverage in the chronicle. Finally, the fate of the fourteenthcentury chronicle texts during the subsequent centuries is examined, their appearance in legal texts, and their reception abroad.