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Author : George M. Cushing, Jr.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780844659510
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (595 download)
Download or read book Great Buildings of Boston written by George M. Cushing, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George M. Cushing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Great Buildings of Boston written by George M. Cushing and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 204 b/w photographs of Boston architecture, neighborhoods. Revere s home, Trinity Church, Hancock Tower, etc. Lovely shots, lively text. "
Author : Freddie the Fish (Fictitious character)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781643761176
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (611 download)
Download or read book If Boston's Buildings Could Speak written by Freddie the Fish (Fictitious character) and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children's book that discusses the history of some of the buildings in Boston, Massachusetts, including Faneuil Hall and the Old State House.
Author : Howard S. Andros
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584650928
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Buildings and Landmarks of Old Boston written by Howard S. Andros and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charming and indispensable guide to the major buildings in Boston built from 1630 to 1850.
Author : Alexander J. Hahn
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400841992
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Mathematical Excursions to the World's Great Buildings written by Alexander J. Hahn and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How mathematics helped build the world's most important buildings from early Egypt to the present From the pyramids and the Parthenon to the Sydney Opera House and the Bilbao Guggenheim, this book takes readers on an eye-opening tour of the mathematics behind some of the world's most spectacular buildings. Beautifully illustrated, the book explores the milestones in elementary mathematics that enliven the understanding of these buildings and combines this with an in-depth look at their aesthetics, history, and structure. Whether using trigonometry and vectors to explain why Gothic arches are structurally superior to Roman arches, or showing how simple ruler and compass constructions can produce sophisticated architectural details, Alexander Hahn describes the points at which elementary mathematics and architecture intersect. Beginning in prehistoric times, Hahn proceeds to guide readers through the Greek, Roman, Islamic, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, and modern styles. He explores the unique features of the Pantheon, the Hagia Sophia, the Great Mosque of Cordoba, the Duomo in Florence, Palladio's villas, and Saint Peter's Basilica, as well as the U.S. Capitol Building. Hahn celebrates the forms and structures of architecture made possible by mathematical achievements from Greek geometry, the Hindu-Arabic number system, two- and three-dimensional coordinate geometry, and calculus. Along the way, Hahn introduces groundbreaking architects, including Brunelleschi, Alberti, da Vinci, Bramante, Michelangelo, della Porta, Wren, Gaudí, Saarinen, Utzon, and Gehry. Rich in detail, this book takes readers on an expedition around the globe, providing a deeper understanding of the mathematical forces at play in the world's most elegant buildings.
Author : Lauren M. McGrath
Publisher : Pageturner, Press and Media
ISBN 13 : 9781643761169
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (611 download)
Download or read book If Boston's Buildings Could Speak by Freddie the Fish written by Lauren M. McGrath and published by Pageturner, Press and Media. This book was released on 2018-12-28 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children's book that discusses the history of some of the buildings in Boston, Massachusetts, including Faneuil Hall and the Old State House.
Author : Charles S. Damrell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265411841
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (118 download)
Download or read book A Half Century of Boston's Building written by Charles S. Damrell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Half Century of Boston's Building: The Construction of Buildings, the Enactment of Building Laws and Ordinances, Sanitary Laws, the Ancient and Modern Building, Building Statistics; Boston's Valuation, a Chapter of Boston's Big Fire, Fire Losses, Public Lands Account So far as we can learn, this is the first work to be published, devoted exclusively to this subject, and as it has been prepared with great care should be of unusual interest and value, containing as it does, not only matters of historical interest, but a large amount of information and reliable data nowhere else to be found accessible to the general public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Charles S. Damrell
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781378011508
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (115 download)
Download or read book A Half Century of Boston's Building. the Construction of Buildings, the Enactment of Building Laws and Ordinances, Sanitary Laws, the Ancient and Mode written by Charles S. Damrell and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-02-18 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Frederick Lothrop Ames
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (394 download)
Download or read book A Description with Illustrations of the Ames Building written by Frederick Lothrop Ames and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Pasnik
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1580934242
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Heroic written by Mark Pasnik and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often problematically labeled as “Brutalist” architecture, the concrete buildings that transformed Boston during 1960s and 1970s were conceived with progressive-minded intentions by some of the world’s most influential designers, including Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, I. M. Pei, Henry Cobb, Araldo Cossutta, Gerhard Kallmann and Michael McKinnell, Paul Rudolph, Josep Lluís Sert, and The Architects Collaborative. As a worldwide phenomenon, building with concrete represents one of the major architectural movements of the postwar years, but in Boston it was deployed in more numerous and diverse civic, cultural, and academic projects than in any other major U.S. city. After decades of stagnation and corrupt leadership, public investment in Boston in the 1960s catalyzed enormous growth, resulting in a generation of bold buildings that shared a vocabulary of concrete modernism. The period from the 1960 arrival of Edward J. Logue as the powerful and often controversial director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority to the reopening of Quincy Market in 1976 saw Boston as an urban laboratory for the exploration of concrete’s structural and sculptural qualities. What emerged was a vision for the city’s widespread revitalization often referred to as the “New Boston.” Today, when concrete buildings across the nation are in danger of insensitive renovation or demolition, Heroic presents the concrete structures that defined Boston during this remarkable period—from the well-known (Boston City Hall, New England Aquarium, and cornerstones of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University) to the already lost (Mary Otis Stevens and Thomas F. McNulty’s concrete Lincoln House and Studio; Sert, Jackson & Associates’ Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School)—with hundreds of images; essays by architectural historians Joan Ockman, Lizabeth Cohen, Keith N. Morgan, and Douglass Shand-Tucci; and interviews with a number of the architects themselves. The product of 8 years of research and advocacy, Heroic surveys the intentions and aspirations of this period and considers anew its legacies—both troubled and inspired.
Author : Bainbridge Bunting
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674409019
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Houses of Boston's Back Bay written by Bainbridge Bunting and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociologically speaking, the Back Bay is Boston's fashionable residential quarter -- or so it was until the great depression of 1929 began the gradual conversion of its aristocratic dwellings to more modest uses. Occupying about two hundred acres in the center of the greater filled region, the limits of this smaller area are the river, the Public Garden, Boylston Street, and Fenway Park. The Back Bay is interesting to Bostonian and visitor of the present day for a variety of reasons. Some will look at the area as a remarkably complete example of nineteenth century American architecture. Some people with a sociological interest will study the area's changes in property use and occupancy over the last thirty-five years and try to foresee the role the Back Bay is to play in the future development of the metropolitan center. Still others are concerned with the area as a convenient place to live or with property values and tax rates. With a precision almost unique in American history, the buildings of the Back Bay chart the course of architectural development for more than half a century. - Introduction.
Author : Boston (Mass.). Commission on Height of Buildings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (186 download)
Download or read book Height of Buildings written by Boston (Mass.). Commission on Height of Buildings and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Boston (Mass.). Building Department
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Building Law of the City of Boston written by Boston (Mass.). Building Department and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles S. (Charles Stanhope) Damrell
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781363286485
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (864 download)
Download or read book HALF CENTURY OF BOSTONS BUILDI written by Charles S. (Charles Stanhope) Damrell and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Boston (Mass.). Public Buildings Department
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Consolidated Report Building Department of the City of Boston for the Years 1931 to 1935 Inclusive written by Boston (Mass.). Public Buildings Department and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nancy S. Seasholes
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262350211
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Gaining Ground written by Nancy S. Seasholes and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why and how Boston was transformed by landmaking. Fully one-sixth of Boston is built on made land. Although other waterfront cities also have substantial areas that are built on fill, Boston probably has more than any city in North America. In Gaining Ground historian Nancy Seasholes has given us the first complete account of when, why, and how this land was created.The story of landmaking in Boston is presented geographically; each chapter traces landmaking in a different part of the city from its first permanent settlement to the present. Seasholes introduces findings from recent archaeological investigations in Boston, and relates landmaking to the major historical developments that shaped it. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, landmaking in Boston was spurred by the rapid growth that resulted from the burgeoning China trade. The influx of Irish immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century prompted several large projects to create residential land—not for the Irish, but to keep the taxpaying Yankees from fleeing to the suburbs. Many landmaking projects were undertaken to cover tidal flats that had been polluted by raw sewage discharged directly onto them, removing the "pestilential exhalations" thought to cause illness. Land was also added for port developments, public parks, and transportation facilities, including the largest landmaking project of all, the airport. A separate chapter discusses the technology of landmaking in Boston, explaining the basic method used to make land and the changes in its various components over time. The book is copiously illustrated with maps that show the original shoreline in relation to today's streets, details from historical maps that trace the progress of landmaking, and historical drawings and photographs.
Author : Boston Architectural Center
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Year Book of the Boston Architectural Club written by Boston Architectural Center and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing examples of english architecture and ornament (1928); ... examples of modern architecture (1929); ... examples of metal work (1930).
