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Author : Charles Moore
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Life And Times Of Charles Follen Mckim written by Charles Moore and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1970-01-21 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Moore
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781258154394
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (543 download)
Download or read book The Life and Times of Charles Follen Mckim written by Charles Moore and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Author : Jill Jonnes
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780670031580
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Conquering Gotham written by Jill Jonnes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the epic story of the struggle to build Penn Station, describing how the nation's most powerful railroad tackled Tammany Hall corruption and the forces of nature to create a tunnel system linking Manhattan, New Jersey, and Long Island.
Author : Charles Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (185 download)
Download or read book The Life and Times of Charles Follen McKim written by Charles Moore and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas S. Hines
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226341720
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Burnham of Chicago written by Thomas S. Hines and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Burnham was the man who is largely responsible for the appearance of Chicago today, particularly the lake front parks. With his partner, John W. Root, he designed and built the first skyscrapers and the World's Columbian Exposition.--Publisher description.
Author : Christopher Crouch
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780853238942
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (389 download)
Download or read book Design Culture in Liverpool, 1880-1914 written by Christopher Crouch and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the 1930s the Liverpool School of Architecture was the most famous British school of architecture in the world, promoting modern architecture and city planning internationally. This book looks at the cultural environment in Liverpool at the turn of the twentieth century which enabled such an important institution to come to fruition. It examines attitudes towards design practice through the work of patrons, practitioners, institutions and theorists in the city, and considers the way their ideas were formed by national and international trends. From a city microcosm of contesting design aesthetics emerged a unique synthesis that was to exert a profound international influence in architectural and planning design.
Author : Christopher Crouch
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1846312949
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (463 download)
Download or read book Design Culture in Liverpool 1888-1914 written by Christopher Crouch and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the 1930s the Liverpool School of Architecture was the most famous British school of architecture in the world, promoting modern architecture and city planning internationally. This book looks at the cultural environment in Liverpool at the turn of the twentieth century which enabled such an important institution to come to fruition. It examines attitudes towards design practice through the work of patrons, practitioners, institutions and theorists in the city, and considers the way their ideas were formed by national and international trends. From a city microcosm of contesting design aesthetics emerged a unique synthesis that was to exert a profound international influence in architectural and planning design.
Author : Jean Strouse
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812987047
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Morgan written by Jean Strouse and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER The definitive full-scale portrait of J. Pierpont Morgan’s tumultuous life, both in and out of the public eye History has remembered him as a complex and contradictory figure, part robber baron and part patron saint. J. Pierpont Morgan earned his reputation as “the Napoleon of Wall Street” by reorganizing the nation’s railroads and creating industrial giants such as General Electric and U.S. Steel. At a time when the country had no Federal Reserve system, he appointed himself a one-man central bank. He had two wives, three yachts, four children, six houses, mistresses, and one of the finest art collections in America. In this extraordinary book, drawing extensively on new material, award-winning biographer Jean Strouse vividly portrays the financial colossus, the avid patron of the arts, and the entirely human character behind all the myths. Praise for Morgan “Magnificent . . . the fullest and most revealing look at this remarkable, complex man that we are likely to get.”—The Wall Street Journal “A masterpiece . . . No one else has told the tale of Pierpont Morgan in the detail, depth, and understanding of Jean Strouse.”—Robert Heilbroner, Los Angeles Times Book Review “It is hard to imagine a biographer coming any closer to perfection.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Strouse is in full command of Pierpont Morgan’s personal life, his financial operations, his collecting, and his benefactions, and presents a rich, vivid picture of the background against which they took place. . . . A magnificent biography.”—The New York Review of Books “With uncommon intelligence, maturity, and psychological insight, Morgan: American Financier is that rare masterpiece biography that enables us to penetrate the soul of a complex human being.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
Author : Spiro Kostof
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195020677
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The Architect written by Spiro Kostof and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Architect traces the role of the profession across the centuries and in different cultures, showing the architect both as designer and as mediator between the client and the builder.
Author : Andrew Dolkart
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231078504
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (785 download)
Download or read book Morningside Heights written by Andrew Dolkart and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly publicized obscenity trial of Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness (1928) is generally recognized as the crystallizing moment in the construction of a visible modern English lesbian culture, marking a great divide between innocence and deviance, private and public, New Woman and Modern Lesbian. Yet despite unreserved agreement on the importance of this cultural moment, previous studies often reductively distort our reading of the formation of early twentieth-century lesbian identity, either by neglecting to examine in detail the developments leading up to the ban or by framing events in too broad a context against other cultural phenomena. Fashioning Sapphism locates the novelist Radclyffe Hall and other prominent lesbians--including the pioneer in women's policing, Mary Allen, the artist Gluck, and the writer Bryher--within English modernity through the multiple sites of law, sexology, fashion, and literary and visual representation, thus tracing the emergence of a modern English lesbian subculture in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Drawing on extensive new archival research, the book interrogates anew a range of myths long accepted without question (and still in circulation) concerning, to cite only a few, the extent of homophobia in the 1920s, the strategic deployment of sexology against sexual minorities, and the rigidity of certain cultural codes to denote lesbianism in public culture.
Author : Sarah Wasserman
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452964157
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book The Death of Things written by Sarah Wasserman and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of ephemera in twentieth-century literature—and its relevance to the twenty-first century “Nothing ever really disappears from the internet” has become a common warning of the digital age. But the twentieth century was filled with ephemera—items that were designed to disappear forever—and these objects played crucial roles in some of that century’s greatest works of literature. In The Death of Things, author Sarah Wasserman delivers the first comprehensive study addressing the role ephemera played in twentieth-century fiction and its relevance to contemporary digital culture. Representing the experience of perpetual change and loss, ephemera was central to great works by major novelists like Don DeLillo, Ralph Ellison, and Marilynne Robinson. Following the lives and deaths of objects, Wasserman imagines new uses of urban space, new forms of visibility for marginalized groups, and new conceptions of the marginal itself. She also inquires into present-day conundrums: our fascination with the durable, our concerns with the digital, and our curiosity about what new fictional narratives have to say about deletion and preservation. The Death of Things offers readers fascinating, original angles on how objects shape our world. Creating an alternate literary history of the twentieth century, Wasserman delivers an insightful and idiosyncratic journey through objects that were once vital but are now forgotten.
Author : John Y Cole
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393045635
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Library Of Congress written by John Y Cole and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997-11-04 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the century, Herbert Small, a newspaperman, wrote a guide to the building and its decoration. His text, edited by Henry Hope Reed, is reproduced here. It is preceded by introductory essays by historian and Librarian of Congress Emeritus Daniel J. Boorstin and noted writer Brendan Gill. The planning and construction of the building are detailed in John Y.
Author : William Seale
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588346242
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book The Imperial Season written by William Seale and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story of the young city of Washington coming up in the international scene is populated with presidents, foreign diplomats, civil servants, architects, artists, and influential hosts and hostesses who were enamored of the idea of world power but had little idea of the responsibilities involved. Between the Spanish American War and World War I, the thrill of America's new international role held the nation's capital in rapture. Visionaries gravitated to Washington and sought to make it the glorious equal to the great European capitals of the day. Remains of the period still define Washington--the monuments and great civic buildings on the Mall as well as the private mansions built on the avenues that now serve as embassies. The first surge of America's world power led to profound changes in diplomacy, and a vibrant official life in Washington, DC, naturally followed. In the twenty-five year period that William Seale terms the "imperial season," a host of characters molded the city in the image of a great world capital. Some of the characters are well known, from presidents to John Hay and Uncle Joe Cannon, and some relatively unknown, from diplomat Alvey Adee to hostess Minnie Townsend and feminist Inez Milholland. The Imperial Season is a unique social history that defines a little explored period of American history that left an indelible mark on our nation's capital.
Author : John Thorn
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476621950
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Fall 2012) written by John Thorn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BACK ISSUE Base Ball is a peer-reviewed book series published annually. Offering the best in original research and analysis, it promotes study of baseball's early history, from its protoball roots to 1920, and its rise to prominence within American popular culture. Prior to Volume 10, Base Ball was published as Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game. This is a back issue of that journal.
Author : Roxanne Kuter Williamson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292762909
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book American Architects and the Mechanics of Fame written by Roxanne Kuter Williamson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-03-07 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does one talented individual win lasting recognition in a particular field, while another equally talented person does not? While there are many possible reasons, one obvious answer is that something more than talent is requisite to produce fame. The "something more" in the field of architecture, asserts Roxanne Williamson, is the association with a "famous" architect at the moment he or she first receives major publicity or designs the building for which he or she will eventually be celebrated. In this study of more than six hundred American architects who have achieved a place in architectural histories, Williamson finds that only a small minority do not fit the "right person–right time" pattern. She traces the apprenticeship connection in case studies of Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Henry Hobson Richardson, the firm of McKim, Mead & White, Latrobe and his descendants, the Bulfinch and Renwick Lines, the European immigrant masters, and Louis Kahn. Although she acknowledges and discusses the importance of family connections, the right schools, self-promotion, scholarships, design competition awards, and promotion by important journals, Williamson maintains that the apprenticeship connection is the single most important predictor of architectural fame. She offers the intriguing hypothesis that what is transferred in the relationship is not a particular style or approach but rather the courage and self-confidence to be true to one's own vision. Perhaps, she says, this is the case in all the arts. American Architects and the Mechanics of Fame is sure to provoke thought and comment in architecture and other creative fields.
Author : Hilary Ballon
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393730784
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (37 download)
Download or read book New Yorks Pennsylvania Stations written by Hilary Ballon and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002-06-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recounts the heroic story of a public landmark: the masterpiece by McKim, Mead & White that opened in 1910, its tragic demolition in the 1960s, and the dazzling new station by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, due to open in 2005.".
Author : Julia King
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351565753
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book George Hadfield: Architect of the Federal City written by Julia King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his lifetime, the work of architect George Hadfield (1763-1826) was highly regarded, both in England and the United States. Since his death, however, Hadfield's contributions to architecture have slowly faded from view, and few of his buildings survive. In order to reassess Hadfield's career and work, this book draws upon a wide selection of written and visual sources to reconstruct his life and legacy. After a general introduction, the book begins with an outline of Hadfield's early years and moves on to look in detail at the extant major buildings in Washington, D.C. that he worked on: the Capitol, Arlington House and Old City Hall. Hadfield's contributions to the Capitol and other Federal buildings are fully researched and assessed for the first time and Arlington House is set in context and shown to have been much more influential than has been appreciated hitherto. New material is presented on City Hall, which is another major and unjustly neglected contribution to the architecture of Washington. The complicated interlocking circles of his family and friends, his fellow architects, and his patrons and clients, including the transatlantic connections, are also explored, revealing much about the course of his career and American architecture in general. Subsequent chapters and the Catalogue explore the other projects that Hadfield was involved with, ranging from office buildings, jails, theatres, factories and banks to a mausoleum and monuments. The book ends with a reassessment of Hadfield's qualities and influence, arguing that these were greater than is often acknowledged. By offering explanations as to why his work was particularly admired by contemporaries, it is concluded that Hadfield's architectural style has been influential from his own times to the present and has been disseminated throughout the United States.
