Fritz Reiner was one of the foremost conductors of his time. Crowning his long career in Europe and America was the decade from 1954 to 1963 as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra an illustrious partnership that ranks along such other historic..
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International, inclusive, creative and principled, Rafael Kubelík truly remains a conductor for here and now, with classic Beethoven, Dvořák and Mahler cycles that deserve to be revisited time and again. His infinitely malleable approach..
Inspired and competent design has to be informed by a knowledge and understanding of earlier design and technology. For no one is this truism more applicable than Jan Kaplicky of Future Systems. Future Systems is well known for its futuristic work,includin..
The two great developments of this era in Russian history-the enserfment of the peasantry and the conquest of a vast Eastern empire-fundamentally concerned spatial control and concepts of movements across the land. In Cartographies of Tsardom, Valerie Kive..
This is simply the most honest, accurate, and emotionally moving book ever written about a man who truly lives by the principles of Kabbalah in the contemporary world. No aspect of Kabbalah is more important than the relationship between master and student..
. Features the drawn designs for some of Kaplický''s best work - including the International Space Station
. An excellent reference for architects and students of architecture
Jan Kaplický (1937-2009) was a visionary architect with a passion fo..