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Author : Jeremy Till
Release : 2001
Genre : Architecture
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 208/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis 9/10 Stock Orchard Street by : Jeremy Till
Download or read book 9/10 Stock Orchard Street written by Jeremy Till. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah Wigglesworth
Release : 2011
Genre : Architects
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 294/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Around & about Stock Orchard Street by : Sarah Wigglesworth
Download or read book Around & about Stock Orchard Street written by Sarah Wigglesworth. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completed in 2000, 9/10 Stock Orchard Street has resisted categorization and this has continued to challenge critics and observers. With contributions from well-known writers in the field, this book responds to the debate, reflecting positively and negatively on what the buildings represent and how they have performed, ten years on. Supported by a wealth of technical drawings and photographic material, the contributions discuss theory, practice, education, material culture, narrative, sustainability and construction, presenting conclusions relevant and insightful for today's readers, both professional and academic.
Author : Susan Jane Gilman
Release : 2014-06-10
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 452/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by : Susan Jane Gilman
Download or read book The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street written by Susan Jane Gilman. This book was released on 2014-06-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clever and complex woman builds an ice cream empire after immigrating from Russia in this stunning novel of power, Prohibition, and performance set against the backdrop of early 20th-century America. In 1913, little Malka Treynovsky flees Russia with her family. Bedazzled by tales of gold and movie stardom, she tricks them into buying tickets for America. Yet no sooner do they land on the squalid Lower East Side of Manhattan, than Malka is crippled and abandoned in the street. Taken in by a tough-loving Italian ices peddler, she manages to survive through cunning and inventiveness. As she learns the secrets of his trade, she begins to shape her own destiny. She falls in love with a gorgeous, illiterate radical named Albert, and they set off across America in an ice cream truck. Slowly, she transforms herself into Lillian Dunkle, "The Ice Cream Queen" -- doyenne of an empire of ice cream franchises and a celebrated television personality. Lillian's rise to fame and fortune spans seventy years and is inextricably linked to the course of American history itself, from Prohibition to the disco days of Studio 54. Yet Lillian Dunkle is nothing like the whimsical motherly persona she crafts for herself in the media. Conniving, profane, and irreverent, she is a supremely complex woman who prefers a good stiff drink to an ice cream cone. And when her past begins to catch up with her, everything she has spent her life building is at stake.
Author : Jane Ziegelman
Release : 2011-05-31
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 519/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis 97 Orchard by : Jane Ziegelman
Download or read book 97 Orchard written by Jane Ziegelman. This book was released on 2011-05-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 97 Orchard, Jane Ziegelman explores the culinary life that was the heart and soul of New York's Lower East Side around the turn of the twentieth century—a city within a city, where Germans, Irish, Italians, and Eastern European Jews attempted to forge a new life. Through the experiences of five families, all of them residents of 97 Orchard Street, Ziegelman takes readers on a vivid and unforgettable tour, from impossibly cramped tenement apartments, down dimly lit stairwells, beyond the front stoops where housewives congregated, and out into the hubbub of the dirty, teeming streets. Ziegelman shows how immigrant cooks brought their ingenuity to the daily task of feeding their families, preserving traditions from home but always ready to improvise. 97 Orchard lays bare the roots of our collective culinary heritage.
Author : Jeremy Till
Release : 2013-02-08
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 783/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Architecture Depends by : Jeremy Till
Download or read book Architecture Depends written by Jeremy Till. This book was released on 2013-02-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polemics and reflections on how to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be. Architecture depends—on what? On people, time, politics, ethics, mess: the real world. Architecture, Jeremy Till argues with conviction in this engaging, sometimes pugnacious book, cannot help itself; it is dependent for its very existence on things outside itself. Despite the claims of autonomy, purity, and control that architects like to make about their practice, architecture is buffeted by uncertainty and contingency. Circumstances invariably intervene to upset the architect's best-laid plans—at every stage in the process, from design through construction to occupancy. Architects, however, tend to deny this, fearing contingency and preferring to pursue perfection. With Architecture Depends, architect and critic Jeremy Till offers a proposal for rescuing architects from themselves: a way to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be. Mixing anecdote, design, social theory, and personal experience, Till's writing is always accessible, moving freely between high and low registers, much like his suggestions for architecture itself.
