During his long career, Pier Luigi Nervi has explored the potential of concrete through the cast-in place and the prefabrication of elements in reinforced concrete or in ferro-cement, the material he invented and patented during the war. All of his best known works, such as the Berta Stadium, the hangars built in Orivieto, Orbetello and Torre del Lago Puccini, the Halls of the ...(展开全部)

During his long career, Pier Luigi Nervi has explored the potential of concrete through the cast-in place and the prefabrication of elements in reinforced concrete or in ferro-cement, the material he invented and patented during the war. All of his best known works, such as the Berta Stadium, the hangars built in Orivieto, Orbetello and Torre del Lago Puccini, the Halls of the ...(展开全部)

Luigi Ghirri was an extraordinary photographer, as well as a writer and curator whose career was so rich and varied that it seems like a lesson in the contemporary history of the medium. Although well-known in his native Italy, Ghirri does not yet have the international audience his work merits--perhaps because he died so young. "It's Beautiful Here, Isn't It"--the first book p...(展开全部)

Metternich gilt seit je als Inbegriff der Reaktion, als rückwärtsgewandter Feind aller liberalen und nationalen Kräfte. Wolfram Siemann zeichnet in seiner grandiosen Biographie ein fundamental neues Bild des Staatsmannes, der für vier Jahrzehnte die Geschicke Europas prägte. Metternichs Denken war moderner, seine Diagnosen hellsichtiger und sein Wirken zukunftsweisender, als ma...(展开全部)

Zum 80. Geburtstag: die Lebenserinnerungen des großen Filmemachers Werner Herzog Werner Herzogs lang erwartete Erinnerungen erzählen ein Jahrhundertleben, wie es nicht einmal in einen seiner eigenen berühmten Filme passen würde. Ein immerzu hungriger Junge, mit der Mutter aus dem bombardierten München in ein bitterarmes Nest in den Alpen geflohen. Ein Jugendlicher, der ganz all...(展开全部)

The major Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was also a poet, novelist, essayist, and iconoclastic political commentator. Naomi Greene reveals to English-speaking readers the diverse talents that made him one of the most controversial European intellectuals of the postwar era, at the center of political and cultural debates still vital to our time. Greene presents Pasolini's...(展开全部)

The major Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was also a poet, novelist, essayist, and iconoclastic political commentator. Naomi Greene reveals to English-speaking readers the diverse talents that made him one of the most controversial European intellectuals of the postwar era, at the center of political and cultural debates still vital to our time. Greene presents Pasolini's...(展开全部)