Bold ventures : thirteen tales of architectural tragedy

Broeck, Charlotte Van den, 1991- author.

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"A prize-winning Belgian poet explores the nature of creative endeavor -the godlike ambition, the crushing defeat of failure -through the stories of thirteen tragic architects. In thirteen fascinating chapters, Charlotte Van den Broeck goes in search of buildings that were fatal to their architects -architects who either killed themselves or are rumored to have done so. They range across time and space from a church with a twisted spire in sevent...

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ISBN:

9781635423174

Description:

viii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:

Translated from the Dutch

Contents:

Municipal Swimming Pool (2005-2011), City Park, Turnhout : Architect unknown
Church Of Saint Omer (1607-1676), Verchin : Jean Porc (D. 1611)
Post Office/telegraph and telephone Building (1947-1953), Ostend : Gaston Eysselinck (1907-1953) 45 Iv. Vienna State Opera (1861-869), Vienna : Eduard Van Der Nüll (1812-1868) and August Sicard Von Sicardsburg (1813-1868)
San Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane (1634-1677), Rome : Francesco Borromini (1599-1667)
National Library Of Malta (1786-1796), Valletta : Stefano Ittar (1724-1790)
Villa Ebe (1922), Naples : Lamont Young (1851-1929)
Rossauer Barracks (1864-1869), Vienna : Karl Pilhal (1822-1878)
Fort George (1747-1769), Ardersier : William Skinner (1700-1780)
Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum (1888-1901), Glasgow : John William Simpson (1858-1933) and Edmund John Milner Allen (1859-1912)
Pine Valley Golf Course (1910-1918), Pine Valley
George Arthur Crump (1871-1918)
Crandall's Knickerbocker Theatre (1917-1922), Washington, DC : Reginald Wycliffe Geare (1889-1927)
Kempf's Kinetic Sculpture Garden (Est. 1978), Colorado Springs : Starr Gideon Kempf (1917-1995)

LCCN:

2022018765

Control Number:

3199706

Other Authors:

McKay, David, 1973- translator
translation of: Broeck, Charlotte Van den, 1991- Waagstukken. English

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