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Book Synopsis Architectural Heritage of the Caribbean by : Andrew Gerald Gravette
Download or read book Architectural Heritage of the Caribbean written by Andrew Gerald Gravette and published by Signal Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanish cathedrals and convents, Dutch gabled warehouses, English country houses, and French ironwork market buildings: all these have survived the perils of earthquakes and hurricanes." "Featuring over one thousand architectural sites across the region, this comprehensive guide describes churches, plantation houses, fortresses and ordinary homes. With a useful glossary of architectural terms and advice on what to look out for, it covers notable and interesting buildings in every island from the Bahamas down to Trinidad."
Book Synopsis Architectural Heritage Of The Caribbean by : A. G. Gravette
Download or read book Architectural Heritage Of The Caribbean written by A. G. Gravette and published by . This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonized by Spanish, French, Brit. and Dutch settlers, Caribbean architecture reflects a variety of colonial influences. Its buildings are also testimony to a history of slavery and constant immigration, revealing the legacy of African, Asian, and North Amer. styles and techniques. Spanish cathedrals and convents, Dutch gabled warehouses, English country houses and French ironwork market buildings have all survived. Featuring over 1,000 architectural sites, this guide describes churches, plantation houses, fortresses and ordinary homes on every island from the Bahamas to Trinidad, and traces the historical and economic developments which have created the region1s unique Creole styles. Glossary of architectural terms. Color plates and line drawings
Book Synopsis Historic Architecture in the Caribbean Islands by : Edward E. Crain
Download or read book Historic Architecture in the Caribbean Islands written by Edward E. Crain and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic. They examine topics critical to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, and tourism. They look at the growth of Florida and the Caribbean and the attendant pressures on the environment, culture, urban development, and the movement of peoples, both forced and voluntary. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series gathers the rich data available in these architectural, archaeological, cultural, and historical works, as well as the travelogues and naturalists’ sketches of the area prior to the twentieth century, making it accessible for scholars and the general public alike. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series is made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, under the Humanities Open Books program.
Book Synopsis Historic Architecture of the Caribbean by : David Buisseret
Download or read book Historic Architecture of the Caribbean written by David Buisseret and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1980 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Caribbean Heritage by : Robert Douglas
Download or read book Caribbean Heritage written by Robert Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Caribbean Baroque by : Pamela Gosner
Download or read book Caribbean Baroque written by Pamela Gosner and published by Passeggiata Press Passeggiata Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An architectural history of Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic offering a unique synthesis of research from primary and secondary Spanish sources. Gosner outlines the progression of styles in the West Indies--military architecture, religious and urban structures, urban palaces, and the particular design adaptations in each of the countries that comprise the Spanish Antilles. The volume is generously illustrated with pen and ink drawings and floor plans. The publisher's address is PO Box 636, Pueblo, CO 81002. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Protecting Heritage in the Caribbean by : Peter E. Siegel
Download or read book Protecting Heritage in the Caribbean written by Peter E. Siegel and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the problem of how Caribbean nations deal with the challenges of protecting their cultural heritages or patrimonies within the context of pressing economic development concerns.
Book Synopsis Architecture and Empire in Jamaica by : Louis Nelson
Download or read book Architecture and Empire in Jamaica written by Louis Nelson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through Creole houses and merchant stores to sugar fields and boiling houses, Jamaica played a leading role in the formation of both the early modern Atlantic world and the British Empire. Architecture and Empire in Jamaica offers the first scholarly analysis of Jamaican architecture in the long 18th century, spanning roughly from the Port Royal earthquake of 1692 to Emancipation in 1838. In this richly illustrated study, which includes hundreds of the author’s own photographs and drawings, Louis P. Nelson examines surviving buildings and archival records to write a social history of architecture. Nelson begins with an overview of the architecture of the West African slave trade then moves to chapters framed around types of buildings and landscapes, including the Jamaican plantation landscape and fortified houses to the architecture of free blacks. He concludes with a consideration of Jamaican architecture in Britain. By connecting the architecture of the Caribbean first to West Africa and then to Britain, Nelson traces the flow of capital and makes explicit the material, economic, and political networks around the Atlantic.
Book Synopsis Caribbean Modernist Architecture by : Gustavo Luis Moré
Download or read book Caribbean Modernist Architecture written by Gustavo Luis Moré and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2010 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February and March 2008, the International Program and the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art organised the Museum's first symposium on the modernist architecture of the Caribbean and bordering Latin American countries, in collaboration with the Caribbean School of Architecture at the University of Technology, Kingston, Jamaica. The goal was to encourage scholarly, curatorial and broader educational awareness. Topics covered included regional and international legacies, preservation, environmental sustainability and urban planning, as they relate to modernist architectural history and contemporary practice. The presenters were leading architects and architectural historians from the region, and attendees included their colleagues as well as local and international university students, policy makers, civic leaders and developers from Jamaica, the surrounding Caribbean isalnds and the United States. This illustrated volume, co-published by MoMA and Archivos de Arquitectura Antillana (AAA), an architectural journal based in the Dominican Republic, presents the papers from this critical symposium in both English and Spanish, making them accessible to a broader public.
Book Synopsis Caribbean Houses by : Michael Connors
Download or read book Caribbean Houses written by Michael Connors and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caribbean Houses is a lavishly illustrated account of the development of historically significant houses in the West Indies. Author Michael Connors, a West Indian decorative arts scholar, examines venerable houses that remain as a testimony to the rich history and vibrant lifestyle that was, and continues to be, an important part of Caribbean culture. The book is divided into five chapters, one for each European heritage: the Spanish Antilles, the Dutch Leewards, the English Islands, the French Lesser Antilles, and the Danish Virgin Islands. An authoritative text sheds light on the area’s rich architectural and interior design history and gives the reader a unique view of houses that combine the tradition of European styles with the vernacular island forms and decorative motifs. The lavish new photography captures the stunning exteriors and provides a rare look into the interiors of these historic houses, with exotic tropical hardwoods, indigenous stone, and a blending of local crafts and handiwork with antiques and contemporary furnishings. With the disappearance of so much of the Caribbean’s historic domestic architecture, the colonial residences that still exist represent an important historical record of the Caribbean’s material culture.
Book Synopsis Natural Stone and Architectural Heritage by : Giovanna Antonella Dino
Download or read book Natural Stone and Architectural Heritage written by Giovanna Antonella Dino and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is made up of contributions dealing with heritage stones from different countries around the world. The stones are described, as well as their use in vernacular and contemporaneous architecture. Heritage stones are those stones that have special significance in human culture. Examples include some very important stones that have been either neglected because they are no longer extracted, or stones that have great significance in commercial terms but knowledge of their national and/or international heritage has not been well documented. In this collection of articles, we have tried to spread awareness of architectural heritage around the world, the natural stones that have been used in its construction, and the need to preserve historical quarries that once provided the source of such stones. Historical quarries are linked to regional culture and tradition. Because of the specific technical and aesthetical characteristics of heritage stones, which have lasted for centuries, these historical quarries should be preserved to be able to use the stones for the proper restoration of monuments and historical buildings to avoid negative actions that can be observed in many places in the restoration of buildings, which are some times part of World Heritage sites. The final intention of this book is to continuosly grow the interest on this fascinating subject of heritage stones.
Book Synopsis Architectural Conservation in Europe and the Americas by : John H. Stubbs
Download or read book Architectural Conservation in Europe and the Americas written by John H. Stubbs and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “From such well-known and long-vexed sites as the Athenian Acropolis to more contemporary locales like the Space Age Modernist capital city of Brasília, the conflicting and not always neatly resolvable forces that bear upon preservation are addressed as clearly and thoughtfully as the general reader could hope for.”—New York Review of Books “...an astonishing feat of research, compilation and synthesis.”—Context The book delivers the first major survey concerning the conservation of cultural heritage in both Europe and the Americas. Architectural Conservation in Europe and the Americas serves as a convenient resource for professionals, students, and anyone interested in the field. Following the acclaimed Time Honored, this book presents contemporary practice on a country-by-country and region-by-region basis, facilitating comparative analysis of similarities and differences. The book stresses solutions in architectural heritage protection and the contexts in which they were developed.
Author :the Florida Association of the American Institute of Architects Publisher :University Press of Florida ISBN 13 :194737222X Total Pages :1176 pages Book Rating :4.9/5 (473 download)
Book Synopsis A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture by : the Florida Association of the American Institute of Architects
Download or read book A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture written by the Florida Association of the American Institute of Architects and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic. They examine topics critical to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, and tourism. They look at the growth of Florida and the Caribbean and the attendant pressures on the environment, culture, urban development, and the movement of peoples, both forced and voluntary. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series gathers the rich data available in these architectural, archaeological, cultural, and historical works, as well as the travelogues and naturalists’ sketches of the area prior to the twentieth century, making it accessible for scholars and the general public alike. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series is made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, under the Humanities Open Books program.
Book Synopsis Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage by : Carola Hein
Download or read book Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage written by Carola Hein and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Open Access book, building on research initiated by scholars from the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development (CHGD) and ICOMOS Netherlands, presents multidisciplinary research that connects water to heritage. Through twenty-one chapters it explores landscapes, cities, engineering structures and buildings from around the world. It describes how people have actively shaped the course, form and function of water for human settlement and the development of civilizations, establishing socio-economic structures, policies and cultures; a rich world of narratives, laws and practices; and an extensive network of infrastructure, buildings and urban form. The book is organized in five thematic sections that link practices of the past to the design of the present and visions of the future: part I discusses drinking water management; part II addresses water use in agriculture; part III explores water management for land reclamation and defense; part IV examines river and coastal planning; and part V focuses on port cities and waterfront regeneration. Today, the many complex systems of the past are necessarily the basis for new systems that both preserve the past and manage water today: policy makers and designers can work together to recognize and build on the traditional knowledge and skills that old structure embody. This book argues that there is a need for a common agenda and an integrated policy that addresses the preservation, transformation and adaptive reuse of historic water-related structures. Throughout, it imagines how such efforts will help us develop sustainable futures for cities, landscapes and bodies of water.
Book Synopsis Tourism in the Caribbean by : David Timothy Duval
Download or read book Tourism in the Caribbean written by David Timothy Duval and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Caribbean is one of the premier tourist destinations in the world. Changes in travel patterns, markets and traveller motivations have brought about considerable growth and dramatic change to the region's tourism sector. This book brings together a high calibre team of international researchers to provide an up-to-date assessment of the scope of tourism and the nature of tourism development in the Caribbean. Divided into three parts, the book: gives an overview of existing tourism trends in the region addresses tourism development issues, including sustainability, ecotourism, heritage tourism, community participation, management implications, and linkages with agriculture considers future trends, including an assessment of recent world events and their impacts on tourism in the region, and future trends in terms of airlift, economic sustainability and markets. A valuable resource for students of tourism and Caribbean studies, as well as governments, and national and regional tourism offices, this topical volume brings together excellent contributions to assess and analyze the state of the Caribbean tourism; past, present and future.
Book Synopsis History of Architectural Conservation by : Jukka Jokilehto
Download or read book History of Architectural Conservation written by Jukka Jokilehto and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-06-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Architectural Conservation expands knowledge about the conservation of ancient monuments, works of art and historic buildings. It includes the origins of the interest in conservation within the European context, and the development of the concepts from Antiquity and the Renaissance to the present day. Jokilehto illustrates how this development has influenced international collaboration in the protection and conservation of cultural heritage, and how it has formed the principal concepts and approach to conservation and restoration in today's multi-cultural society. This book is based on archival research of original documents and the study of key restoration examples in countries that have influenced the international conservation movement. Accessible and of great interest to students and the general public it includes conservation trends in Europe, the USA, India, Iran and Japan.
Book Synopsis Searching for Sugar Mills by : Suzanne Gordon
Download or read book Searching for Sugar Mills written by Suzanne Gordon and published by Interlink Publishing Group. This book was released on 2005 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to architectural sites of the Eastern Caribbean, reflecting African, Amerindian, European, and East Indian influences.
