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Buildings of Pittsburgh

Author : Franklin Toker
Publisher : Center for American Places
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Buildings of Pittsburgh written by Franklin Toker and published by Center for American Places. This book was released on 2007 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the forefront of national and international change, Pittsburgh has long been portrayed as a place for innovative architecture. From its origins as a fort built in 1753 at the urging of a twenty-one-year-old George Washington, through its industrial boom, and into contemporary times, when it has become a pioneer for the ideals and philosophy of environmentally friendly architecture, the city has a history of development that exemplifies the transformative nature of America's built environment. With The Buildings of Pittsburgh, we now have a substantive reference book (organized by area, with subsets of geographical entries) that relates the architectural history of this ever-changing city up to the present day. Franklin Toker examines Pittsburgh's architectural transformations from its early architecture following the Federal and Gothic Revival styles, to the city's importation in the mid-nineteenth century of new styles in the Romantic tradition, to industrial Pittsburgh with all its factories and huge institutional buildings, and finally to the city's environmentally conscious renaissance that began in the mid-twentieth century. In doing so, he shows why Pittsburgh has consistently been rated among the top three American cities for buildings by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, and how the city once famous for embracing industry and pollution is now preaching the gospel of clean air and "green" architecture.

Buildings of Pennsylvania

Author : Lu Donnelly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813928234
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (282 download)

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Download or read book Buildings of Pennsylvania written by Lu Donnelly and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended to complement the forthcoming companion volume--Buildings of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania--in the Buildings of the United States series, this book will pique the interest and curiosity of architectural historians and general readers alike. A volume in the Buildings of the United States series of the Society of Architectural Historians

Imagining the Modern

Author : Rami el Samahy
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1580935230
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Imagining the Modern written by Rami el Samahy and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining the Modern explores Pittsburgh's ambitious modern architecture and urban renewal program that made it a gem of American postwar cities, and set the stage for its stature today. In the 1950s and '60s an ambitious program of urban revitalization transformed Pittsburgh and became a model for other American cities. Billed as the Pittsburgh Renaissance, this era of superlatives--the city claimed the tallest aluminum clad building, the world's largest retractable dome, the tallest steel structure--developed through visionary mayors and business leaders, powerful urban planning authorities, and architects and urban designers of international renown, including Frank Lloyd Wright, I.M. Pei, Mies van der Rohe, SOM, and Harrison & Abramovitz. These leaders, civic groups, and architects worked together to reconceive the city through local and federal initiatives that aimed to address the problems that confronted Pittsburgh's postwar development. Initiated as an award-winning exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art in 2014, Imagining the Modern untangles this complicated relationship with modern architecture and planning through a history of Pittsburgh's major sites, protagonists, and voices of intervention. Through original documentation, photographs and drawings, as well as essays, analytical drawings, and interviews with participants, this book provides a nuanced view of this crucial moment in Pittsburgh's evolution. Addressing both positive and negative impacts of the era, Imagining the Modern examines what took place during the city's urban renewal era, what was gained and lost, and what these histories might suggest for the city's future.

Buildings of Pennsylvania

Author : George E. Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813929675
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Buildings of Pennsylvania written by George E. Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume describes buildings in an area central to the development of the US. It shows the diverse styles of the Commonwealth State that has its hybrid regional architectural roots in both Britain and the new experiment in democracy. Following an overview of Pennsylvania's historical and cultural geography, sections organized by region, then county, present descriptions of the homes, commercial buildings, and public spaces of Philadelphia to the resort country of the Pocono Mountains.

Landmark Architecture

Author : Walter C. Kidney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landmark Architecture written by Walter C. Kidney and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Early Architecture Of Western Pennsylvania

Author : Charles Morse Stotz
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822990326
Total Pages : 803 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book The Early Architecture Of Western Pennsylvania written by Charles Morse Stotz and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 803 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition features and an extensive analytical introduction by the noted architectural historian Dell Upton. Containing 416 black-and-white photographs, 81 measured drawings and an extensive text, this volume presents a splendid array of the early dwellings, barns, and other outbuildings, churches, arsenals, banks, inns, commercial buildings, tollhouses, mills, and even tombstones of western Pennsylvania.

Pittsburgh Architecture in the Twentieth Century

Author : Albert M. Tannler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780978828493
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book Pittsburgh Architecture in the Twentieth Century written by Albert M. Tannler and published by . This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Building Character

Author : Charles L. Davis
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822986639
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Building Character written by Charles L. Davis and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2021 CAAA Charles Rufus Morey Book Award Winner, 2021 On the Brinck Book Award Shortlist, 2020 MSA First Book Prize In the nineteenth-century paradigm of architectural organicism, the notion that buildings possessed character provided architects with a lens for relating the buildings they designed to the populations they served. Advances in scientific race theory enabled designers to think of “race” and “style” as manifestations of natural law: just as biological processes seemed to inherently regulate the racial characters that made humans a perfect fit for their geographical contexts, architectural characters became a rational product of design. Parallels between racial and architectural characters provided a rationalist model of design that fashioned some of the most influential national building styles of the past, from the pioneering concepts of French structural rationalism and German tectonic theory to the nationalist associations of the Chicago Style, the Prairie Style, and the International Style. In Building Character, Charles Davis traces the racial charge of the architectural writings of five modern theorists—Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Gottfried Semper, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and William Lescaze—to highlight the social, political, and historical significance of the spatial, structural, and ornamental elements of modern architectural styles.

Pittsburgh

Author : Franklin Toker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pittsburgh written by Franklin Toker and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toker examines Pittsburgh in its historical context, in its regional setting, and from the street level (leading the reader on a personal tour through every neighborhood). Based on his 1986 classic, Pittsburgh: An Urban Portrait, but with a completely revised text and lavishly illustrated with all new photos and maps, Pittsburgh: A New Portrait reveals the true colors of a truly great American city.

Life and Architecture in Pittsburgh

Author : James Denholm Van Trump
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life and Architecture in Pittsburgh written by James Denholm Van Trump and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pittsburgh's Landmark Architecture

Author : Walter C. Kidney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780916670184
Total Pages : 717 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Pittsburgh's Landmark Architecture written by Walter C. Kidney and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Building Schools, Making Doctors

Author : Katherine L. Carroll
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822988690
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Building Schools, Making Doctors written by Katherine L. Carroll and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century, medical educators intent on transforming American physicians into scientifically trained, elite professionals recognized the value of medical school design for their reform efforts. Between 1893 and 1940, nearly every medical college in the country rebuilt or substantially renovated its facility. In Building Schools, Making Doctors, Katherine Carroll reveals how the schools constructed during this fifty-year period did more than passively house a remodeled system of medical training; they actively participated in defining and promoting an innovative pedagogy, modern science, and the new physician. Interdisciplinary and wide ranging, her study moves architecture from the periphery of medical education to the center, uncovering a network of medical educators, architects, and philanthropists who believed that the educational environment itself shaped how students learned and the type of physicians they became. Carroll offers the first comprehensive study of the science and pedagogy formulated by the buildings, the influence of the schools’ donors and architects, the impact of the structures on the urban landscape and the local community, and the facilities’ privileging of white men within the medical profession during this formative period for physicians and medical schools.

The Progressive Architecture Of Frederick G. Scheibler, Jr

Author : Martin Aurand
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822970376
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book The Progressive Architecture Of Frederick G. Scheibler, Jr written by Martin Aurand and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1994-04-15 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frederick G. Scheibler, Jr. (1872–1958) was the rare turn-of-the-century American architect who looked to progressive movements such as Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts for inspiration, rather than conventional styles. His fresh house designs and plans for apartment buildings and multifamily “group cottages” feature dramatic massing, rich detailing, and a wide variety of materials. Scheibler envisioned each building as a work of art, integrating architecture and ornamentation. Prized today, his best works are scattered throughout Pittsburgh’s East End and eastern suburbs. This richly illustrated volume, the first comprehensive study of Scheibler, includes 125 historic and contemporary photographs and drawings, a catalogue raisonné of all of his known projects—including many not recorded in any other published source—a list of books in his library, and a selected bibliography.

Pittsburgh

Author : Franklin Toker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pittsburgh written by Franklin Toker and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bryant Gumbel called this the best book on Pittsburgh when the Today Show came to town. An indispensable guide to the city, with photographs and maps.

The Power of Existing Buildings

Author : Robert Sroufe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 164283050X
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Existing Buildings written by Robert Sroufe and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Power of Existing Buildings, academic sustainability expert Robert Sroufe, and construction and building experts Craig Stevenson and Beth Eckenrode, explain how to realize the potential of existing buildings and make them perform like new. This step-by-step guide will help readers to: understand where to start a project; develop financial models and realize costs savings; assemble an expert team; and align goals with numerous sustainability programs. The Power of Existing Buildings will challenge you to rethink spaces where people work and play, while determining how existing buildings can save the world. The insights and practical experience of Sroufe, Stevenson, and Eckenrode, along with the project case study examples, provide new insights on investing in existing buildings for building owners, engineers, occupants, architects, and real estate and construction professionals.

The Building of Pittsburgh ...

Author : Montgomery Schuyler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Building of Pittsburgh ... written by Montgomery Schuyler and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Writing Architectural History

Author : Aggregate Architectural History Collective
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822988429
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Writing Architectural History written by Aggregate Architectural History Collective and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, scholarship in architectural history has transformed, moving away from design studio pedagogy and postmodern historicism to draw instead from trends in critical theory focusing on gender, race, the environment, and more recently global history, connecting to revisionist trends in other fields. With examples across space and time—from medieval European coin trials and eighteenth-century Haitian revolutionary buildings to Weimar German construction firms and present-day African refugee camps—Writing Architectural History considers the impact of these shifting institutional landscapes and disciplinary positionings for architectural history. Contributors reveal how new methodological approaches have developed interdisciplinary research beyond the traditional boundaries of art history departments and architecture schools, and explore the challenges and opportunities presented by conventional and unorthodox forms of evidence and narrative, the tools used to write history.