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500 Small Houses of the Twenties

Author : Henry Atterbury Smith
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486156869
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book 500 Small Houses of the Twenties written by Henry Atterbury Smith and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spurred by a rapidly expanding economy and abundant resources of land, building materials and skilled labor, the dream of building and owning one's own home became a reality in America in the 1920s. With the beginning market for small- to medium-sized one-family dwellings came a succession of innovative home designs that transformed American domestic architecture. This outstanding book presents 500 small-home designs of the 1920s as they appeared in a major architectural publication of 1923. Many are by leading domestic architects of the period. Each design is presented in a handsome perspective drawing or photograph, along with floor plans and a description of its principal features. The designs reflect many variations on the basic themes of American colonial architecture, updated by new construction technology and the design aesthetics of the post‒World War I era. The Bungalow and semi-bungalow were perhaps the biggest design news of the times, and they are generously represented in this huge collection. Because of the practicality and good looks of the best of these designs, and perhaps for the nostalgia they evoke, many are being revived today by builders and buyers in communities across America. Architects, architectural, and social historians, students and enthusiasts of architecture and design will find in these pages a rich selection of small-home concepts that once set the standard for a new era in American home design, and that still form an integral part of our landscape many decades after their first inspiration.

Authentic Small Houses of the Twenties

Author : Robert Taylor Jones
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486254062
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book Authentic Small Houses of the Twenties written by Robert Taylor Jones and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modestly priced, richly illustrated reprint of rare guidebook published in 1920s by Architects' Small House Service Bureau. Designs, floor plans, construction materials, prices for wide variety of small homes. Over 800 line drawings and photographs of models ranging from charming five-room English cottages to attractive, two-story, shingled Colonials.

Elegant Small Homes of the Twenties

Author : Chicago Tribune
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486138216
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Elegant Small Homes of the Twenties written by Chicago Tribune and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1927, the Chicago Tribune sponsored a competition for "trained men of talent, incorporating into the small home ideas of real worth, types of rare charm, and the best possible plans for comfort and convenience." This collection spotlights the challenge’s top results, presenting the nineteen prize-winning designs for five- and six-room houses, plus eighty additional sets of the best architectural plans. A new introduction by Daniel D. Reiff, Ph.D., adds interesting detail about the competition and the competitors. These fascinating snapshots of American domestic architecture of the 1920s include glimpses of New England and Southern colonials, Normandy cottages, stately Italianate dwellings, and other styles. Each of the designs features a floor plan and exterior views of the house. Architects, architecture buffs, and historians will prize these authentic renderings of the leading designs in American architecture of nearly a century ago.

Distinctive House Design and Decor of the Twenties

Author : Richardson Little Wright
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486418254
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Distinctive House Design and Decor of the Twenties written by Richardson Little Wright and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of excellent photographs, drawings and floor plans depict landscaping, interior and exterior decor. Text includes a wealth of information on how a house is built, with expert advice on walls, floors, ceilings, windows, balconies, fireplaces, plumbing, decorative hardware, paints, even architects' fees. Special portfolio of 60 houses in varied styles.

Georgian Architectural Designs and Details

Author : Abraham Swan
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486140032
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Georgian Architectural Designs and Details written by Abraham Swan and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the 18th century's most influential architectural designers and writers, Abraham Swan defined many conventions of English rococo detail. This reprint of an extremely rare and classic stylebook, compiled by the English architect nearly 250 years ago, provides outstanding examples of Palladian and Georgian architecture and design in colonial America and England. Included are floor plans, detailed elevations, and drawings for cornices, mouldings, and other decorative elements that demonstrate Swan's unique style. Designed, in his words, more for "Gentlemen of moderate Fortunes than of great Estates who may be inclined to build Houses," Swan's designs featured such aesthetic touches as double staircases, elegant entryways, and two or three floors with spacious galleries, salons, and dressing rooms. Invaluable to architectural historians and designers, this splendid stylebook will delight devotees of early English Georgian and American domestic architecture and interior design, cultural historians, artists, and craftworkers.

124 Distinctive House Designs and Floor Plans, 1929

Author : National Building Publications
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486140504
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book 124 Distinctive House Designs and Floor Plans, 1929 written by National Building Publications and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annual publication intended as a reference work for contractors, suppliers, architects, and homeowners, the 1929 Home Builders Catalog offered a beautifully illustrated look at a variety of homes. Painstakingly reproduced from a rare edition, this volume offers old-house restorers, preservationists, and lovers of 1920s architecture an authentic view of American homes of the era.

Vitruvius Scoticus

Author : William Adam
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486321118
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book Vitruvius Scoticus written by William Adam and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic portfolio uses elevations, floor plans, and other line drawings by Scotland's first great classical architect to document the high Scottish style of the eighteenth century. It was assembled by William Adam (1689–1748), whose sons were the developers of the "Adam style," and published posthumously in 1812. The elder Adam designed, extended, and remodeled numerous country homes and undertook many public contracts. Vitruvius Scoticus's 160 plates include 100 of his own designs. Unlike the Vitruvius Britannicus books, this volume features plans for many smaller buildings that served as models for American builders and architects of the nineteenth century. Its engravings include images of such stately homes as Mavisbank House, Haddo House, and Fasque House; Hamilton Palace, one of the nation's grandest homes, and Holyrood Palace, the official residence of the monarch in Scotland; and a series of bridges at Inveraray in the county of Argyll. Never before available in an affordable edition, this volume is an essential reference for architectural historians and students. It includes an Introduction and Notes to the Plates by James Simpson.

Houses for a New World

Author : Barbara Miller Lane
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691246424
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Houses for a New World written by Barbara Miller Lane and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating history of the twentieth century's most successful experiment in mass housing While the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, and their contemporaries frequently influences our ideas about house design at the midcentury, most Americans during this period lived in homes built by little-known builders who also served as developers of the communities. Often dismissed as "little boxes, made of ticky-tacky," the tract houses of America's postwar suburbs represent the twentieth century’s most successful experiment in mass housing. Houses for a New World is the first comprehensive history of this uniquely American form of domestic architecture and urbanism. Between 1945 and 1965, more than thirteen million houses—most of them in new ranch and split-level styles—were constructed on large expanses of land outside city centers, providing homes for the country’s rapidly expanding population. Focusing on twelve developments in the suburbs of Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Los Angeles, Barbara Miller Lane tells the story of the collaborations between builders and buyers, showing how both wanted houses and communities that espoused a modern way of life—informal, democratic, multiethnic, and devoted to improving the lives of their children. The resulting houses differed dramatically from both the European International Style and older forms of American domestic architecture. Based on a decade of original research, and accompanied by hundreds of historical images, plans, and maps, this book presents an entirely new interpretation of the American suburb. The result is a fascinating history of houses and developments that continue to shape how tens of millions of Americans live. Featured housing developments in Houses for a New World: Boston area: Governor Francis Farms (Warwick, RI) Wethersfield (Natick, MA) Brookfield (Brockton, MA) Chicago area: Greenview Estates (Arlington Heights, IL) Elk Grove Village Rolling Meadows Weathersfield at Schaumburg Los Angeles and Orange County area: Cinderella Homes (Anaheim, CA) Panorama City (Los Angeles) Rossmoor (Los Alamitos, CA) Philadelphia area: Lawrence Park (Broomall, PA) Rose Tree Woods (Broomall, PA)

The Architect, Or Practical House Carpenter (1830)

Author : Asher Benjamin
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486258027
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book The Architect, Or Practical House Carpenter (1830) written by Asher Benjamin and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The superbly illustrated and detailed handbook that popularized the use of classic Greek architectural style in America in the early and middle 1800s. 271 illustrations.

Country Houses and Seaside Cottages of the Victorian Era

Author : William T. Comstock
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486259727
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (597 download)

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Book Synopsis Country Houses and Seaside Cottages of the Victorian Era by : William T. Comstock

Download or read book Country Houses and Seaside Cottages of the Victorian Era written by William T. Comstock and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty-four authentic and charming designs for vacation homes in varied styles and sizes, most low-to-medium budget, with perspective views, elevations, and floor plans. 200 illustrations.

Smaller Houses of the 1920s

Author : Ethel B. Power
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486145476
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Smaller Houses of the 1920s written by Ethel B. Power and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a peak era in American domestic architecture comes this survey of homes from across the country. Its wealth of styles features both new American designs and traditional European-inspired buildings of wood, stucco, concrete, brick, and stone. The 130 captioned black-and-white illustrations and 55 floor plans offer external and internal views for a full perspective on the houses' architectural ingenuity and originality. One of the most striking features of these homes is their extreme variety in terms of efficient design. The plans combine a limited number of units into a workable whole, without sacrifice of convenience or economy. Blending practicality and charm, these imaginative designs will inspire professional architects, amateur builders, and anyone interested in the ways American architects adapted Old World designs and added elements of native style to produce a new and vibrant home building idiom.

Early Domestic Architecture of Connecticut

Author : J. Frederick Kelly
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486144321
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Early Domestic Architecture of Connecticut written by J. Frederick Kelly and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on personal observation of surviving examples and research into colonial records, this book includes 242 measured diagrams (windows, door frames, construction details, etc.) and 192 photographs of more than 150 homes, 1650 to 1800. Authentic and invaluable. 434 illustrations.

Kindergarten Chats and Other Writings

Author : Louis H. Sullivan
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486238128
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Kindergarten Chats and Other Writings written by Louis H. Sullivan and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reprint of the definitive 1918 edition, this bold, thought-provoking volume by one of America's most influential architects features dialogs, or "chats," about architecture, art, education, and life in general. 17 illustrations.

Plantations of the Carolina Low Country

Author : Samuel Gaillard Stoney
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486260891
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Plantations of the Carolina Low Country written by Samuel Gaillard Stoney and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic photo-and-text survey of extant plantation homes, churches and chapels built between 1686 and 1878 along South Carolina coastal plain. Detailed photographs, fascinating history, distinguishing characteristics of Medway, Middleburg, Exeter, Crowfield, Hampton, The Rocks, Lowndes' Grove, 48 other structures.

My Father, Frank Lloyd Wright

Author : John Lloyd Wright
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486269863
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (698 download)

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Download or read book My Father, Frank Lloyd Wright written by John Lloyd Wright and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charming memoir, by his son, of Wright as genius, father, and family man. The book also includes the complete text of William C. Gannet's The House Beautiful, a work designed by Wright. 10 halftones.

The Four Books of Architecture

Author : Andrea Palladio
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486132927
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book The Four Books of Architecture written by Andrea Palladio and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrea Palladio (1508–1580) was one of the most celebrated architects of the Renaissance, so important that the term Palladian has been applied to a particular style of architecture that adheres to classical concepts. The wide spread of Palladianism was due partly to the private and public buildings he constructed in Italy, the designs of which were copied throughout Europe. But of even greater consequence was his remarkable magnum opus, "I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura"; translated into every major Western European language in the two centuries following its publication in 1570, it has been one of the most influential books in the history of architecture. The Four Books of Architecture offers a compendium of Palladio's art and of the ancient Roman structures that inspired him. The First Book is devoted to building materials and techniques and the five orders of architecture: Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite. Palladio indicates the characteristic features of each order and supplies illustrations of various architectural details. The Second Book deals with private houses and mansions, almost all of Palladio's own design. Shown and described are many of his villas in and near Venice and Vicenza (including the famous Villa Capra, or "The Rotunda," the Thiene Palace, and the Valmarana Palace). Each plate gives a front view drawing of the building and the general floor plan. The Third Book is concerned with streets, bridges, piazzas, and basilicas, most of which are of ancient Roman origin. In the Fourth Book, Palladio reproduces the designs of a number of ancient Roman temples. Plates 51 to 60 are plans and architectural sketches of the Pantheon. In all, the text is illustrated by over 200 magnificently engraved plates, showing edifices, either of Palladio's own design or reconstructed (in these drawings) by him from classical ruins and contemporary accounts. All the original plates are reproduced in this new single-volume edition in full size and in clear, sharp detail. This is a republication of the Isaac Ware English edition of 1738. Faithful and accurate in the translation and in its reproduction of the exquisite original engravings, it has long been a rare, sought-after work. This edition makes The Four Books available for the first time in more than 200 years to the English-speaking public.

Late Victorian Architectural Plans and Details

Author : William T. Comstock
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486156737
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Late Victorian Architectural Plans and Details written by William T. Comstock and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authentic reproduction of plans drawn up by a noted nineteenth-century architectural firm features both residential and public buildings. Hundreds of illustrations include floor plans, perspective views, and elevations as well as designs for staircases, fireplaces, and other interior details. Other drawings depict windows, doors, balconies, and gables. Photographs offer crisp views of exteriors. Victorian architecture buffs will prize this excellent source of authentic period designs. Its 126 plates comprise 87 images of residences; the remaining 39 structures include a field club building, stables, a library, a school, a railroad station, a dry goods store, and a music hall. Captions describe locations, dimensions, costs, and other particulars.