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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Henry PlummerPublisher: Indiana University Press Imprint: Indiana University Press Dimensions: Width: 25.40cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 1.143kg ISBN: 9780253353627ISBN 10: 0253353629 Pages: 152 Publication Date: 11 August 2009 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print  Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Shaker Light--Building a State of Grace 1. Simplicity--Pristine Light Monotone Mass Pure White Cavity Framed Whiteness Between Wood and Plaster Wooden Cavern 2. Order--Focused Light Mesmerizing Window Incantation Concentric Tonalities Double Helix Twin Skylights Flying Staircase Tiered Skylights 3. Luminosity--Inner Light Maximum Fenestration Interior Shutters White Kentucky Limestone White-Painted Stonework White on White Yellow Light Lustrous Wood Clasped Light Attic Dormer Cupola 4. Equality--Shared Light Transom Window Interior Window Double Window Enfilade of Openings Lattice of Light 5. Time--Cyclic Light Shadow Play on Limestone Spectral Colors Tree Shadows Splashes of Sun Coexisting Times States Golden Cast Revolving Light and Color Crossfire of Sun I Crossfire of Sun II Light Orchestration BibliographyReviewsThese images of historic Shaker buildings are stunning. Stephen J. Stein, author of The Shaker Experience in America [These] spaces ... are mirages infused with a sense of reality and epiphany. --Juhani Pallasmaa, Former professor of architecture at Helsinki University of Technology and currently Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis I have written that when an architect finds out that LIGHT is the main subject of Architecture, he begins to be a real one. How could a real architect not know about LIGHT? How could a good photographer not control LIGHT? How could a good professor not speak to his students about LIGHT? Henry Plummer, who is a real architect, a splendid photographer, and also a wonderful professor, does all of these things for us in Stillness and Light. --Alberto Campo Baeza, Architect and Visiting Faculty at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design This is a book that you will want to have open and in sight, turning its pages from time to time, absorbing the meditation its photographs evoke. The stillness is the stillness of concentration, a quieting of the mind that could be termed soulful. The light glowing from its pages is transformative. The words bring thought to place, echoing original intent, giving their own illumination to the qualities of Shaker life and thought. The quality of color and light indeed give earthbound rooms a skyward inflection . The photographs are masterful; their vantage, profound. Plummer's work not only records Stillness and Light, it gives them. --Donlyn Lyndon, Eva Li Professor of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley I have written that when an architect finds out that LIGHT is the main subject of Architecture, he begins to be a real one. How could a real architect not know about LIGHT? How could a good photographer not control LIGHT? How could a good professor not speak to his students about LIGHT? Henry Plummer, who is a real architect, a splendid photographer, and also a wonderful professor, does all of these things for us in Stillness and Light. -Alberto Campo Baeza, Architect and Visiting Faculty at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design This is a book that you will want to have open and in sight, turning its pages from time to time, absorbing the meditation its photographs evoke. The stillness is the stillness of concentration, a quieting of the mind that could be termed soulful. The light glowing from its pages is transformative. The words bring thought to place, echoing original intent, giving their own illumination to the qualities of Shaker life and thought. The quality of color and light indeed give earthbound rooms a skyward inflection . The photographs are masterful; their vantage, profound. Plummer's work not only records Stillness and Light, it gives them. -Donlyn Lyndon, Eva Li Professor of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley [A] stunning color photographic essay... Plummer's discerning photographic eye not only captures the feeling of serenity and peace that pervades these buildings, but also reminds us that for the Shakers, daily work was prayer and every space in their community was a chapel... This book is a must for libraries and any religious group planning to construct significant spiritual space. -Nova Religio, Vol. 15, No. 1 August, 2011 I highly recommend this book for anyone who is appraising Shaker items or Shaker architecture or for those who simply love high quality art photographs. A welcome addition to your book shelves. -www.examiner.com, 9/24/2009 These images of historic Shaker buildings are stunning. -Stephen J. Stein, author of The Shaker Experience in America These spaces... are mirages infused with a sense of reality and epiphany. -Juhani Pallasmaa, Former professor of architecture at Helsinki University of Technology and currently Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis [A] stunning color photographic essay ... Plummer's discerning photographic eye not only captures the feeling of serenity and peace that pervades these buildings, but also reminds us that for the Shakers, daily work was prayer and every space in their community was a chapel ... This book is a must for libraries and any religious group planning to construct significant spiritual space.Vol. 15, No. 1 August, 2011 * Nova Religio * I highly recommend this book for anyone who is appraising Shaker items or Shaker architecture or for those who simply love high quality art photographs. A welcome addition to your book shelves. 9/24/2009 * www.examiner.com * Author InformationHenry Plummer is Professor of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is also an associate of the Center for Advanced Study. He is author of Poetics of Light, Light in Japanese Architecture, and The Architecture of Natural Light. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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