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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"mid-century modernism"”.
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Six Acres: The Residence & Office of Edmonton Architectural Partnership, Wallbridge & Imrie
… while situating Six Acres within the mid-20th century architectural landscape of Alberta. Six Acres exemplifies Wallbridge & Imrie's design philosophy, merging living and working spaces in a way that reflects their personal and professional values. The study aims to document a complete …
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Cineplastick: Synthetic Materials in the Films of Mary Ellen Bute, Jim Davis and Jeff Keen
… synthetic materials, which proliferated in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Chapter One concerns the early films of the American animator Mary Ellen Bute, whose film aesthetics, I argue, extend Élie Faure’s vision of the private nature of cinema spectatorship. My reading of the films …
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Postwar British Fictions of Inhabitation
The New Brutalist architect Alison Smithson is often quoted as saying that ‘a book is like a small building to us’. Indeed, her 1966 novel A Portrait of the Female Mind as a Young Girl, published by Chatto and Windus, underscores the fact that the putting-together of both books and buildings was an …