palladio--bibliography

fifty four pages of sources for the study of the fine building of the venetian architect andrea palladio.

english translations of palladios pattern book, "the four books", and his lesser known guide book to the city rome.

english language pattern books inspired and influenced by palladios four books of architecture.

english language books about the man palladio. placing him in his time.

english language works on palladios buildings. the villas, town houses, and ecclesiastical buildings.

works on the genre or following of palladio, interiors and furnitures.

last for the tourist, a gazette of places in the united kingdom and ireland with palladian buildings sometimes open to the public.

 

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platero

not the platero in the book.

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platero

the life of a donkey.

told through daily event, none much longer than a page.

we are all platero.

 

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platero

juan ramon jimenez.

 

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anthony blunt--architecture

 

a lecture by anthony blunt, on some uses and misuses of the terms baroque and roccoco.

in this lecture he also summarizes the history of euroese architecture from antiquity to modern times.

I think this is where he makes the claim, that the defining feature of modern architecture comes from the absence of mouldings, and that this began with the roccoco interiors.

 

 

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usonian civilia

w. hegeman and e. peets on the civic art or the american vitruvius.

the art beyond the single building, the arrangement of single buildings into groups of buildings as a necessary environment for living the good life.

a collection of evidence for a euroese civic design, in groups of buildings and parks, in america.

some or all of the text of the book is available for reading at the online library, archive.org.

 

 

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serial--townscape devonian

calgary loves toronto.

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serial--townscape devonian

rock garden viewed from edge of ice pool.

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serial--townscape devonian

 

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serial--townscape devonian

clock of the george brown quadrangle viewed from across the ice pool.

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serial--townscape devonian

 

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december catmint

from the last week of autumn 2014, catnip growing along the west brick wall of a building near sherbourne and scadding.

 

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corinthean architecture

from the photo sharing site panoramino a government building at tirana. the upper floors given the form of an abacus of the corinthean order of columns.

 

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makielski--palladio

some palladian architecture by stanislaw makielski, has been in the spot light because of an essay by sabrina rubin-erdely on greek-lettered fraternities the magazine rollingstone published.

all of the attention has been given to a dormitory he designed for the phi kappa psi. a two storied building with dormer windows on the roof to either side of a central temple pediment supported on four columns.

the temple face of the building has five bays, the two end bays project further than the centre three, framing them and their sitting porch under the pediment which is supported on the columns screening the porch.

 

 

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julius evola

juliusevola.net , a site devoted to the philosophy of evola. his own words on the good life, to him it includes occultism, racism, and most of all tradition.

 

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jefferson--palladio

the virtual lawn

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the palladian architecture of thomas Jefferson at the university of virginia.

the virtual-lawn web site summarizes where the architecture of palladio came from and how jefferson reused palladios system in his design of the university grounds.

 

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roygbiv

single cosmos with flowering dusty-miller.

 

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lurking hand grabber

the late part of 1979 or 1980. that time in the lunch room b. d. reached over, took my hand lifted it off the table and said to j. c. "see.". one other person was present at the table and a few others may of been in the room.

how this could be used in a fiction. a person in a school lunchroom at a table with some other students, when one of the girls reaches over lifts his hand off the table and turns to other girl and says "see". a couple of weeks later he is in the locker room between classes when the same girl grabs his hand and tries to pull it up to her breast. when he resists she slaps his face and says something to the effect "what are you grabbing my breast for?". all this seems to have been done for the benifit of two other people standing at their lockers who seemed like they had been told what was going to happen and were lurking there to witness it.

then she wants money or a complaint will be made or she threatens to unless he takes her offer of working in a gay porn film her step-father will set up for him with people he knows in germany.

an example of how this sort of confidence trick is carried out by breaking down the sequence of events. first step they do the first part of a set of events, for example if they wanted to were going to bring a persons hand up to their breast they would one day take the persons hand with witnesses around to see if they get away with it, then a few weeks later they do the same thing but carry it through further with more witnesses around. then they can make their threats and

 

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wall garden--blue mallows

an accidental wall garden off of yonge street, north wall of a building along dundonald street.

an uncanny growth of mallows along the base of the wall, one of those garden flowers that can be found self sown throughout toronto. the hinges show the doors open out, but they can't of been used recently.

the walls have been painted an uneven hue giving a patched and collage effect where the shades of blue alternate.

majorelle blue! or a canadian no-name chalky-blue of the same colour?

 

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accidental step garden

scadding ave near sherbourne street, plants growing out of the flower beds and across the lower step of an apartment at a property of one of toronto community housing corporation buildings.

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allen gardens--memorial plaque

city of toronto department of parks and recreation allan indoors botanical gardens officially opened by mayor nathan phillips . q. c. on april 17, th 1957 alderman a. c. cranham chairman - committee on parks and exhibitions c. t. bell commissioner of parks and recreation

 

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classical architecture--mouldings door

building at king street and parliment. the corner set oblique to the corner of the property, the main entry opened into it. rusticated stones used as a frame to the door, a sort of screen marking the passage from outside to inside. the mutules in architrave above the door seem out of scale to the overall proportional scheme.

 

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