Bøger af John Lobell

Movies really began for me in 1960 when I was a freshman in college, with Fellini's La Dolce Vita, Antonioni's L'Avventura, Bergman's Wild Strawberries, Godard's Breathless, and Resnais's Last Year at Marienbad. Movies had become literature. Then in 1972 friends in the biz brought me to a nighttime filming of the cruising scene for George Lucas's American Graffiti, and later I spent a day with Lucas hearing about a "sword and ray gun" movie he was working on. I made sure I was at the first showing of Star Wars in New York in 1977. By then I was attending lectures by the mythologist Joseph Campbell and had read his The Hero with a Thousand Faces. With La Dolce Vita, etc., I had come to appreciate movies as literature. Now I could also appreciate them as myth. John Lobell

A deep exploration of how our consciousness is structuredand how those structures shape culture, including art, architecture, literature, film, technology, and science.Structures of consciousness are changed by media acting asextensions, which in turn changes cultures. After surveyingpast cultures, the book examines the impact of relativity, quantum mechanics, quantum mechanics, and digitaltechnologies, on our culture toda

These are times of turmoil. But times of turmoil can also be times of creativity as we become aware of new possibilities in our arts, sciences, and industries, and of new directions for our lives. Today's challenges all have one thing in common: they call out for Visionary Creativity. We flourish in pursuit of our creativity, and it is in creativity that we find not only fulfillment for ourselves, but also the visions our world is calling for. In this profoundly engaging book you will enter the worlds of modern art, current movies and television dramas, new technologies, and cutting edge science. You will see familiar figures examined in surprising ways: musicians, including Mozart, Stravinsky, and the Beatles; artists, including Van Gogh, Picasso, and Warhol; writers, including Twain, Joyce, and Rowling; scientists including Darwin, Einstein, and Wolfram; and business leaders, including Jobs, Zuckerberg, and Karp. Today's Visionary Creatives inhabit an emerging world and are driven to produce work that will help all of us to see what they see as we move deeper into the twenty-first century. As Shelley wrote, "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."

For everyone interested in the enduring appeal of Louis Kahn, this book demonstrates that a close look at how Kahn put his buildings together will reveal a deeply felt philosophy.Louis I. Kahn is one of the most influential and poetic architects of the twentieth century, a figure whose appeal extends beyond the realm of specialists. In this book, noted Kahn expert John Lobell explores how Kahn''s focus on structure, respect for materials, clarity of program, and reverence for details come together to manifest an overall philosophy. Kahn''s work clearly conveys a kind of "transcendent rootedness"--a rootedness in the fundamentals of architecture that also asks soaring questions about our experience of light and space, and even how we fit into the world. In Louis Kahn: The Philosophy of Architecture, John Lobell seeks to reveal how Kahn''s buildings speak to grand humanistic concerns.Through examinations of five of Kahn''s great buildings--the Richards Medical Research Building in Philadelphia; the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla; the Phillips Exeter Academy Library in New Hampshire; the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth; and the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven--Lobell presents a clear but detailed look at how the way these buildings are put together presents Kahn''s philosophy, including how Kahn wishes us to experience them. An architecture book that touches on topics that addresses the universal human interests of consciousness and creativity, Louis Kahn: The Philosophy of Architecture helps us understand our place and the nature of well-being in the built environment.