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Book Synopsis Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect by : Jewel Stern
Download or read book Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect written by Jewel Stern and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical study of the New York City commercial building designer traces his half-century career, from his education at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts to his utilization of modern polychrome decoration and setback skyscraper style.
Download or read book Polychromy written by Léon Victor Solon and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Boak & Paris / Boak & Raad by : Annice M. Alt
Download or read book Boak & Paris / Boak & Raad written by Annice M. Alt and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-10-25 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boak & Paris may not be a household name in most households, but this architectural firm was key to the development of apartment buildings that are among the finest in New York City. Annice Alts book analyzes this firm and its exceptional buildings in detail and places them within the context of speculative real estate development. The book provides an important contribution to the understanding of the vernacular buildings that create the streetscapes that New Yorkers love and that give the city its unique character. Andrew S. Dolkart Director, Historic Preservation Program, Columbia University School of Ar chitecture, Planning and Preservation; author of the award-winning The Row House Reborn: Architecture and Development in New York City, 19081929 and Morningside Heights: A History of its Architecture and Development" Alts thoroughly researched book provides new information and insights into the architectural work of Boak & Paris and Boak & Raad. It is a surprise to discover the wealth of buildings, particularly the apartment houses that they are responsible for. Many of the Boak & Paris projects from the 192030s employ interesting architectural terra-cotta elements. To revisit the apartments from the 1950s and 60s is a fascinating exercise. Fine period images are of great value in elucidating this quest. Susan Tunick President, Friends of Terra Cotta; author, Terra-Cotta Skyline: New Yorks Architectural Ornament New Yorks architecture buffs can rejoice: Annice Alt has completed her monograph on Boak & Paris. The personal approach she takes in her writingand extensive quotations from original sourcesbring us into the adventure of her research, where we meet not just Russell Boak and Hyman Paris, but also such august architectural personages as Emery Roth and Gaetan Ajello, along with the clientssuch as plumber-turneddeveloper Sam Minskoffwho kept them busy during the middle decades of the 20th century, turning Manhattan into an island of cliff dwellers. Anthony W. Robins Architectural historian; author Grand Central Terminal: 100 Years of a New York Landmark and a guide t o New York City Art Deco architecture (forthcoming) Boak was an unsung architect who was incapable of doing a bad drawing, a bad design. No one is comparable. Boak just had taste, he had class. Elihu Rose Vice Chairman, Rose Associates, Inc.
Book Synopsis Architecture and Film by : Mark Lamster
Download or read book Architecture and Film written by Mark Lamster and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the ways in which architecture and architects are treated on screen and how these depictions filter and shape the ways we understand the built environment. There are essays from contributors from a range of disciplines and interviews of those working behind the scenes.
Book Synopsis Ely Jacques Kahn by : Ely Jacques Kahn
Download or read book Ely Jacques Kahn written by Ely Jacques Kahn and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ely Jacques Kahn (1884-1972), a prolific architect through much of the 20th century, is best known for his Art Deco skyscrapers which still dot the New York skyline. His forte was designing commercial structures with colorful and inventive exterior ornament and with deluxe lobbies, themselves masterpieces of Art Deco design. Many of the works from this period, the most interesting of his career and some of the best of their genre, are illustrated in this reprint. New York architects Françoise Bollack and Tom Killian have written an introduction to this work, the only monograph on Kahn published to date. They have added a list of Kahn's work designed between the two World Wars, the first such listing assembled. Included from the original volume is a selection of Kahn's essays from various sources. -- from book jacket.
Book Synopsis Skyscraper Style by : Cervin Robinson
Download or read book Skyscraper Style written by Cervin Robinson and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Art Deco Mailboxes: An Illustrated Design History by : Karen Greene
Download or read book Art Deco Mailboxes: An Illustrated Design History written by Karen Greene and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-12-29 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great gift book for lovers of unsung urban decorative art and unique architectural details. Mailboxes and their chutes were once as essential to the operation of any major hotel, office, civic, or residential building as the front door. In time they developed a decorative role, in a range of styles and materials, and as American art deco architecture flourished in the 1920s and 1930s they became focal points in landmark buildings and public spaces: the GE Building, Grand Central Terminal, the Woolworth Building, 29 Broadway, the St. Regis Hotel, York & Sawyer’s Salmon Tower, the Waldorf Astoria, and many more. While many mailboxes have been removed, forgotten, disused, or painted over (and occasionally repurposed), others are still in use, are polished daily, and hold a place of pride in lobbies throughout the country. A full-color photographic survey of beautiful early mailboxes, highlighting those of the grand art deco period, together with a brief history of the innovative mailbox-and-chute system patented in 1883 by James Cutler of Rochester, New York, Art Deco Mailboxes features dozens of the best examples of this beloved, dynamic design’s realization in the mailboxes of New York City as well as Chicago, Philadelphia, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and beyond.
Book Synopsis Old Buildings, New Forms by : Francoise Bollack
Download or read book Old Buildings, New Forms written by Francoise Bollack and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is clear that working with historic structures is both more environmentally sustainable and cost effective than new architecture and construction—and many believe that the best design occurs at the intersection of old and new. Françoise Astorg Bollack presents 28 examples gathered in the United States and throughout Europe and the Middle East. Some are well known—Mass MOCA, Market Santa Caterina in Barcelona, Neues Museum in Berlin—and others are almost anonymous. But all demonstrate a unique and appropriate solution to the problem of adapting historic structures to contemporary uses. This survey of contemporary additions to older buildings is an essential addition to the architectural literature. “I have always loved old buildings. An old building is not an obstacle but instead a foundation for continued action. Designing with them is an exhilarating enterprise; adding to them, grafting, inserting, knitting new pieces into the existing built fabric is endlessly stimulating.” —Françoise Astorg Bollack
Book Synopsis American Art Deco by : Alastair Duncan
Download or read book American Art Deco written by Alastair Duncan and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the tradition of the streamlined design and reveals how it was manifested in the great buildings, furniture, and merchandise of the 1930s.
Book Synopsis Harrigan 'n Hart by : Michael Stewart
Download or read book Harrigan 'n Hart written by Michael Stewart and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century songwriter and vaudevillian Edward Harrigan and his partner, Tony Hart, were the first to integrate storytelling, song, and dance onstage. Here is their story, told with an innovative blend of their songs, stage performances, and new material that captures their offstage relationship.
Download or read book The Big Drink written by Ely Jacques Kahn and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ely Jacques Kahn by : Ely Jacques Kahn
Download or read book Ely Jacques Kahn written by Ely Jacques Kahn and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Habib Rahman written by S M Akhtar and published by https://copalpublishing.com. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Habib Rahman, one of the visionaries who laid the foundations of the architectural vocabulary of independent India by playing a pivotal role in shaping the modern architecture of Delhi. This book describes Habib Rahman as an inscriber of the transition of India from a newly independent state to a strong republic, reflected through his architectural practice. It further describes Habib as an engineer, architect and a musician, a fusion of which is evinced in the unique purity clarity and vibrancy of his architectural pursuit. It provides a blueprint of projects conceived by Habib in detail, supported by rare photographs and plans showing the evolution of his design vocabulary from Gandhi Ghat to the Delhi Zoological Park. This book on Padma Bhushan Habib Rahman is an important contribution to the history of modern architecture in India.
Book Synopsis The New Deal in South Florida by : John A. Stuart
Download or read book The New Deal in South Florida written by John A. Stuart and published by Florida History and Culture (H. This book was released on 2008 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Blurring the traditional disciplinary boundaries of design history and political science, the contributors to The New Deal in South Florida examine the impact of a wide variety of New Deal projects on the region. They examine letters and photographs-many never before published-public murals, housing, parks, and architecture. In so doing, this book offers historians a new perspective on how Coral Gables, Miami Beach, and other communities were impacted by the New Deal programs."--Back cover.
Book Synopsis Sfera E Il Labirinto by : Manfredo Tafuri
Download or read book Sfera E Il Labirinto written by Manfredo Tafuri and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1990 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tafuri's work is probably the most innovative and exciting new form of European theory since French poststructuralism and this book is probably the best introduction to it for the newcomer. ..."
Download or read book Interior Landmarks written by and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some are widely celebrated—Radio City Music Hall, the Great Hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grand Central Station—and others virtually unknown, all warrant preservation. This book is the first to present great landmarked interiors of New York in all their intricate detail, in a visual celebration of space that captures the rich heritage of the city. In the fifty years since it was established in 1965, the New York City Landmarks Law has preserved for generations to come a remarkable number of significant buildings that represent New York City’s cultural, social, economic, political, and architectural history. Not only do the exterior facades of these buildings fall within the law’s purview, but, since 1973, many of their stunning interiors as well. This book tells the colorful stories of 47 interior landmarks from the oldest to the youngest—from the grand Italianate and infamous Tweed Courthouse, the centerpiece of the largest corruption case in New York history, and the glamorous Art Deco Rainbow Room, constructed shortly after the repeal of the Prohibition—to the modernist 1967 Ford Foundation Building, whose garden-filled atrium exemplified sustainable design well before the concept became fashionable, and was hailed as “one of the most romantic environments ever devised by corporate man.” Located throughout the five boroughs, the interior landmarks include banks, theaters, office building lobbies, restaurants, libraries, and more—spaces in which New Yorkers have worked, learned, governed, been entertained, and interacted with their communities for decades. Readers will learn about their original construction and style, their exceptional design features, materials, and architectural details—then of the challenges to preserving them—whether they were unanimously accepted or hotly contested in legal battles—the restorations or re-imaginings that took place, and the preservationists, philanthropists, politicians, and designers who made it possible. Combining strong visuals and thorough research, this valuable reference work will fascinate all readers with an interest in the city’s history.
Book Synopsis About the New Yorker & Me by : Ely Jacques Kahn
Download or read book About the New Yorker & Me written by Ely Jacques Kahn and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1988 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the New Yorker's most respected writers gives a marvelously entertaining memoir, taking readersservations on everything from the days of Ross to the gossip about William Shawn's successor.
