Sigurd Lewerentz（1885-1975）是欧洲现代建筑领域最受人尊敬、同时也是最神秘的大师之一。他是瑞典最杰出的现代主义者，尽管建成作品不算多，但国际影响力却在去世多年后依然不减。无数建筑爱好者们从全球各地前来参观他设计的建筑。他对景观设计最重要的贡献：斯德哥尔摩的林地公墓被收入联合国教科文组织的世界遗产名录。 这本内容翔实、装帧精美的权威专著基于瑞典国家建筑与设计中心深入研究——该馆保存了Sigurd Lewerentz的档案与他的个人图书馆——以及瑞典各地的原始资料和新公开的档案，包括大量从未披露过的建筑、家具和室内设计的图纸和模型照片，建筑师和建筑摄影师Johan Dehlin贡献了一套Lewerentz的代表作的全新摄影作品。本书还收录了由Lewerentz档案负责人，Johan Örn撰写的文章，以当代视角探讨了Leweren...(展开全部)

Sweden has produced two architects of international stature in the 20th century, Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz. Together, Asplund and Lewerentz collaborated on the development of the Woodland Cemetery. Their buildings were profoundly personal; and while their output was not large, it covered a wide range of design, from furniture to landscape. Asplund gained immediate fam...(展开全部)

Sigurd Lewerentz (1885 - 1975) was one of the major Swedish architects of the twentieth century and was particularly known for his important religious works. This definitive monograph is the only comprehensive survey of his work, celebrating his sensitive and distinctive response to modernism in a detailed survey of both built and planned projects. These span his embrace and re...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 An Essential Primer on Understanding Photography by One of theWorld's Most Influential Photographers "In my roughly twenty years of writing about photography, I don't thinkI've come across a book that has implied so much with so few words, a bookthat raises so many important questions with so little fanfare and withsuch precision."-James Kaufmann, Photographer's Forum...(展开全部)

"If looking at photographs is a pleasurable activity, it is pleasurable in a complex, transformative, frequently unsettling sense. It is not pleasure unalloyed, for no profound pleasure is pure... Like many truly enriching pleasures... photography has its dark, troubling, even dangerous aspects." -Gerry Badger The Pleasures of Good Photographs is an intellectual and aesthetic...(展开全部)

This monument of rabbinical exegesis written at the end of the twelfth century has exerted an immense and continuing influednce upon Jewish thought. Its aim is to liberate people from the tormenting perplexities arising from their understanding of the Bible according only to its literal meaning. This edition contains extensive introductions by Shlomo Pines and Leo Strauss, a le...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien's three-volume epic, is set in the imaginary world of Middle-earth -- home to many strange beings, and most notably hobbits, a peace-loving "little people," cheerful and shy. Since its original British publication in 1954-55, the saga has entranced readers of all ages. It is at once a classic myth and a modern fairy tale. Critic M...(展开全部)

Acclaimed American documentary photographer Mary Ellen Mark (b. 1940) made her first iconic pictures when living in Turkey on a Fulbright Fellowship in the mid-1960s. Her photographs of Bombay brothels, shot in the late 1970s, were published in 1981 in Falkland Road, a book that became legendary and confirmed her status as one of the most prominent and provocative documentary p...(展开全部)