sex object
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sex ob·ject
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n.
a person regarded by another only in terms of their sexual attractiveness or availability:
we're now in a period when it is permissible for women to make men into sex objects.
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Adding to Asplund: Swedish critic Rasmus Waern takes a sceptical look at the winner of a major competition to extend Erik Gunnar Asplund's city library in Stockholm.(view)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...international competition for the extension of Asplund's famous city library in Stockholm was...much as possible, pledging respect to Asplund's building by creating distance between...relationship of Hanada's new building to Asplund's masterpiece is passive. To accommodate...
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Peter Blundell Jones. Gunnar Asplund.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Scandinavian Studies; 12/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...interpretive The Architecture of Erik Gunnar Asplund, the standard work on Asplund...essays and illustrations; Erik Gunnar Asplund: Mobili e oggetti (1985...Symposium on the Architecture of Erik Gunnar Asplund (1986); The Dilemma of Classicism...
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Asplund--at last.(Gunnar Asplund)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 8/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...monograph on Asplund is Eric de Mare's slender Gunnar Asplund: a great modern architect published in...s study of the psychological aspects of Asplund's work, The Architecture of Erik Gunnar Asplund, published in 1980. Since then, there...
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Stockholm syndrome: a major international competition to create an extension to Asplund's City Library in Stockholm has produced six finalists who will go on to develop their proposals. Swedish critic Rasmus Waern considers the merits of the schemes.(view)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...concentration. Within the box that Erik Gunnar Asplund created in 1928 is a world of its...major two-stage competition. Asplund's appeal is such that over 6000...own right. But above all, as Asplund's building was to be respected...
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Pondering grave matters
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/16/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...Woodland Cemetery. Designed by Erik Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Leweretz, respectively...of urban cemetery. In doing so Asplund and Leweretz broke completely with...an otherwise abandoned world. Asplund and Leweretz claimed that the cross...
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SAM FOX SCHOOL OF DESIGN & VISUAL ARTS HONORS FIVE DISTINGUISHED ARCHITECTURE ALUMNI
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 4/12/2007; 700+ words
; ...of St. Louis. In addition, Erik G. L'Heureux, AIA, LEED (BA...of the great Finnish architects Erik Gunnar Asplund and Alvar Aalto, particularly in...Newsletter. YOUNG ALUMNI AWARD Erik G. L'Heureux, AIA, LEED (BA...
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Time Capsule.
Magazine article from: Interior Design; 10/31/2007; 700+ words
; ...789A Baker Knapp & Tubbs. 5. 1934 501 Goteborg Erik Gunnar Asplund for Cassina. '40's 6. 1944 Washington Chair Gunlocke...through Textile Arts. 6. 1960 Ox Chair Hans Wegner for Erik Jorgensen, through Morlen Sinoway. 7. 1968 C261 ABCD...
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BIBLIOTHECA ALEXANDRINA.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 9/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...distinguished lineage of libraries stretching back to Sydney Smirke's reading room for the British Museum and Erik Gunnar Asplund's Stockholm City Library, but it is bigger than these, and completely different in concept. As the Norwegian...
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Architecture as humanism.(Alvar Aalto, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 5/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...The preliminary, scheme, which seems derived from the classicist facade of the Stockholm Public Library of Erik Gunnar Asplund, gives way in final form to an exterior composition dominated by the white walls and volumetric rectilinear geometry...
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Designer of Gateway Arch in St. Louis Wins Top Prize in Architecture.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 4/7/2003; 700+ words
; ...interested in the work of Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto, of course." Utzon worked with Aalto and the Swedish architect Erik Gunnar Asplund, another strong influence in his career. "Those were the big influences. Of course, there was also (Antoni...
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Erik Gunnar Asplund
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Erik Gunnar Asplund , 1885-1940, Swedish architect. He designed the central library of...pavilions that he planned for the Stockholm Exhibition of 1930. There Asplund employed the forms of the new architecture but added a dynamic line and...
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Asplund, Erik Gunnar
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Asplund, Erik Gunnar (1885–1940). One of the...for the Stockholm Exhibition (1930), Asplund demonstrated that he had become a Modernist...amp; and Bedoire (1986, 1988); Asplund (1985, 1988); Asplund et al. (1931...
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Eric Gunnar Asplund
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...architecture generally and places Asplund in context with other modern Swedish...Additional Sources Caldenby, Claes, Asplund: a book, New York: Rizzoli, 1986, 1985. Nagy, Elemaer, Erik Gunnar Asplund, Budapest: Akadaemiai Kiadao...
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