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Obras de Douglass Shand-Tucci

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Conocimiento común

Nombre canónico
Shand-Tucci, Douglass
Fecha de nacimiento
1941
Género
male
Nacionalidad
USA

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My first, and so far only, trip to Boston was about five years ago. Although I made it to Harvard's campus, I didn't have the time to visit MIT, which is home to a number of notable modern and contemporary buildings, such as Aalto's dormitory, Saarinen's chapel, and another dormitory, by Steven Holl. As much as I like to visit a place with an architectural guide, I'm not sure this one would have made the ideal companion at MIT, even if it were around at the time. At 400 pages, it is a hefty guide, split into two halves: eight "portals" that paints a historical portrait of MIT, and eight "walks" that highlight different areas of MIT's campus on the left bank of the Charles. The second half – the true guide – is as verbose as the first half, with one walk consisting of basically standing in one point on a bridge and getting an overview of campus. The merits of the book include some beautiful photographs and a map, the latter of which visitors can carry around in lieu of the heavy book that is better suited to reading before taking a trip to Cambridge, Massachusetts.… (más)
 
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archidose | Dec 17, 2023 |
There is a lot of interesting information in here about homosexual and homosocial relationships in and around Harvard in the 19th and 20th centuries, but infelicitous prose and a weird thesis bogged me down. So I quit.
 
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aulsmith | May 30, 2014 |
don't know why so many people didn't like this. i knew nothing about gardner. i thought it was informative and interesting.
 
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mahallett | 3 reseñas más. | Sep 11, 2011 |
I gave up at about page 29. Thoroughly researched, but poorly organized and ponderously written. I might come back to this book to gain additional insight after I've read other biographies of this fascinating woman, but a poor choice for taking a first look at her life.
 
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lincics | 3 reseñas más. | Jan 11, 2010 |

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