Bøker av Michael Dennis

There are no books that focus on the unique artistic characteristics of the Venetian facade and its potential relevance to contemporary architectural and urban issues, as this book intends. This book is about architecture. It is not about history, although a bit of history is necessary to set the context. It is not about theory, although, again, a bit is necessary to connect the facade with urbanism. It is also not about structure and technology. And, most definitely, it is not about the plan. All of these topics are well-covered elsewhere. This book is about the facade. It explores the art and typology of the Venetian facade, not only as a high point of architectural literacy and achievement, but as a potentially useful contemporary stimulant.

Poetry. LOW CENTRE OF GRAVITY finds Michael Dennis in familiar territory. You'll laugh. You'll cry. Dennis' poems continue to be the narratives of movies you'd like to someday see. These poems ask the questions you'd really like answered, sauntering into the room and staking claim. The story-telling continues, the good, the bad and the sadly tragic. With LOW CENTRE OF GRAVITY Dennis remains direct, curious, pissed off and honest.

This book traces the historic evolution of urban form, principles, and design; it serves as a compendium, or reference, of city design; and is a polemic about the necessity for the recovery of the city and a contemporary urban architecture. It begins with the planned cities of Greece and the Roman Empire from about 500 BC, through the late-medieval Bastides, the Ideal Renaissance cities, and Baroque new towns, to the urban planning strategies of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It covers anti-urban modernist architecture and the resulting disintegration of the city. It concludes with late-twentieth-century efforts to recover the city, a contemporary urban architecture, and urbanism's potential contribution to the contemporary ecological crisis. The book is project oriented and extensively illustrated. It may be read graphically, textually, or both. As such, it falls into the long tradition of illustrated treatises in which theory is embedded in the projects, with only occasional assistance or clarification from the text. Architecture and urban design are physical arts, not verbal arts, and they are best understood from graphic representations.

How progressivism transformed higher education in the New South by focusing on practical, utilitarian education, creating a vast educational bureaucracy, and making the universities into instruments of the state.

The neon waves crash over me, pummelling this body of mine into the earth that has mocked me for the lifetime I have been begrudgingly granted. Within this destructive water are stories that feature people like me, lost, lonely and afraid of what lies ahead. "I was 27 when I first told the woman of my dreams that I loved her. It was the one regret that has haunted me for so long..." The voice the water channels is of someone much like me, love-struck. Love broke me; leaving me to wonder why I can never be loved in the same way that I loved. Does this change the feelings I hold for her? No... It just makes me realise what I knew all along. As much as I want to save them from ruin, I finally understand that's not my purpose... They'll have to save themselves.

A play about joy and heartbreak, quarries and transmat beams - a love-letter to British sci-fi television.

"It's Gonna Be OK" takes the reader on a journey. It explores the author's experiences as a spunky little girl, through turbulent teenage years, and finally emerging as a maturing young woman while living on the Seminole and Saint Louis, Oklahoma and Texas oil leases during the 1930's and '40's. Laugh and cry with the family as they move from boomshack to boomshack and finally "Toots" is sure Mama and Daddy are rich. Their latest boomshack has an inside bathroom! Share the adventures of "Toots" and all those gritty people who became "family" while living in the camps. This red-dirt experience molded their beings, and for many, will never leave their hearts.