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Author : Alison Sky
Publisher : New York ; Montréal : McGraw-Hill
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Unbuilt America written by Alison Sky and published by New York ; Montréal : McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 1976 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Keith Krumwiede
Publisher : Park Publishing (WI)
ISBN 13 : 9783038600022
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 ( download)
Download or read book Atlas of Another America written by Keith Krumwiede and published by Park Publishing (WI). This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Owning a home is a cornerstone of the American Dream, the ultimate status symbol in the land of the free. But is the dream in crisis? Mass-marketed and endlessly multiplied, the suburban single-family house has become an instrument of global economic calamity and ongoing environmental catastrophe. Never before have we been so badly in need of a reassessment of our cultural values from an architectural perspective."--Back cover.
Author : Kerry Dean Carso
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501755943
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Follies in America written by Kerry Dean Carso and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follies in America examines historicized garden buildings, known as "follies," from the nation's founding through the American centennial celebration in 1876. In a period of increasing nationalism, follies—such as temples, summerhouses, towers, and ruins—brought a range of European architectural styles to the United States. By imprinting the land with symbols of European culture, landscape gardeners brought their idea of civilization to the American wilderness. Kerry Dean Carso's interdisciplinary approach in Follies in America examines both buildings and their counterparts in literature and art, demonstrating that follies provide a window into major themes in nineteenth-century American culture, including tensions between Jeffersonian agrarianism and urban life, the ascendancy of middle-class tourism, and gentility and social class aspirations.
Author : Mark Gelernter
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719047275
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (472 download)
Download or read book A History of American Architecture written by Mark Gelernter and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did the colonial Americans give over a significant part of their homes to a grand staircase? Why did the Victorians drape their buildings ornate decoration? And why did American buildings grow so tall in the last decades of the 19th century. This book explores the history of American architecture from prehistoric times to the present, explaining why characteristic architectural forms arose at particular times and in particular places.
Author : Henry Stolzman
Publisher : Images Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781864700749
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Synagogue Architecture in America written by Henry Stolzman and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This full colour publication explores the rich and diverse response to the quest to sustain the Hebrew heritage that has resulted in prominent designs.
Author : Jean Paul Carlhian
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847843408
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)
Download or read book Americans in Paris written by Jean Paul Carlhian and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2014 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents for the first time a comprehensive overview of the seminal early work of a century of American architects--including Richard Morris Hunt, H. H. Richardson, Raymond Hood, and Charles Follen McKim--who studied at the prestigious and influential École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, before going on to design and build many of this nation's most important buildings and monuments."--Cover, page [4].
Author : Peter Nabokov
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199840512
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Native American Architecture written by Peter Nabokov and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1990-10-25 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many people, Native American architecture calls to mind the wigwam, tipi, iglu, and pueblo. Yet the richly diverse building traditions of Native Americans encompass much more, including specific structures for sleeping, working, worshipping, meditating, playing, dancing, lounging, giving birth, decision-making, cleansing, storing and preparing food, caring for animals, and honoring the dead. In effect, the architecture covers all facets of Indian life. The collaboration between an architect and an anthropologist, Native American Architecture presents the first book-length, fully illustrated exploration of North American Indian architecture to appear in over a century. Peter Nabokov and Robert Easton together examine the building traditions of the major tribes in nine regional areas of the continent from the huge plank-house villages of the Northwest Coast to the moundbuilder towns and temples of the Southeast, to the Navajo hogans and adobe pueblos of the Southwest. Going beyond a traditional survey of buildings, the book offers a broad, clear view into the Native American world, revealing a new perspective on the interaction between their buildings and culture. Looking at Native American architecture as more than buildings, villages, and camps, Nabokov and Easton also focus on their use of space, their environment, their social mores, and their religious beliefs. Each chapter concludes with an account of traditional Indian building practices undergoing a revival or in danger today. The volume also includes a wealth of historical photographs and drawings (including sixteen pages of color illustrations), architectural renderings, and specially prepared interpretive diagrams which decode the sacred cosmology of the principal house types.
Author : Talbot Hamlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Greek revival architecture in America written by Talbot Hamlin and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William A. Coles
Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Architecture in America written by William A. Coles and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1961 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alvar Aalto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300176001
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Aalto and America written by Alvar Aalto and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aalto built three major works in America that counted among the most important in his career - the Finland Pavilion at the New York World's Fair, Baker House at MIT and the Library at Mount Angel Abbey, Oregon. This text deals with the complex nature of Aalto's experience with America.
Author : Sean Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781633451148
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America written by Sean Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How American architecture can address systemic anti-Black racism: a creative challenge in 10 case studies Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in Americais an urgent call for architects to accept the challenge of reconceiving and reconstructing our built environment rather than continue giving shape to buildings, infrastructure and urban plans that have, for generations, embodied and sustained anti-Black racism in the United States. The architects, designers, artists and writers who were invited to contribute to this book--and to the exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art for which it serves as a "field guide"--reimagine the legacies of race-based dispossession in 10 American cities (Atlanta; Brooklyn, New York; Kinloch, Missouri; Los Angeles; Miami; Nashville; New Orleans; Oakland; Pittsburgh; and Syracuse) and celebrate the ways individuals and communities across the country have mobilized Black cultural spaces, forms and practices as sites of imagination, liberation, resistance, care and refusal. A broad range of essays by the curators and prominent scholars from diverse fields, as well as a portfolio of new photographs by the artist David Hartt, complement this volume's richly illustrated presentations of the architectural projects at the heart of MoMA's groundbreaking exhibition.
Author : Steven Conn
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 081229310X
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Building the Nation written by Steven Conn and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving away from the standard survey that takes readers from architect to architect and style to style, Building the Nation: Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape suggests a wholly new way of thinking about the history of America's built environment and how Americans have related to it. Through an enormous range of American voices, some famous and some obscure, and across more than two centuries of history, this anthology shows that the struggle to imagine what kinds of buildings and land use would best suit the nation pervaded all classes of Americans and was not the purview only of architects and designers. Some of the nation's finest writers, including Mark Twain, W. E. B. Du Bois, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Lewis Mumford, E. B. White, and John McPhee, are here, contemplating the American way of building. Equally important are those eloquent but little-known voices found in American newspapers and magazines which insistently wondered what American architecture and environmental planning should look like. Building the Nation also insists that American architecture can be understood only as both a result of and a force in shaping American social, cultural, and political developments. In so doing, this anthology demonstrates how central the built environment has been to our definition of what it is to be American and reveals seven central themes that have repeatedly animated American writers over the course of the past two centuries: the relationship of American architecture to European architecture, the nation's diverse regions, the place and shape of nature in American life, the design of cities, the explosion of the suburbs, the power of architecture to reform individuals, and the role of tradition in a nation dedicated to being perennially young.
Author : Leland M. Roth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429708777
Total Pages : 681 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book America Builds written by Leland M. Roth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture requires a broad definition. It involves more than simply questions of style, esoteric theory, or technical progress; it is the physical record of a culture's relationship to its technology and the land, and, most important, of the system of values concerning men's relationships with one another. Hence this volume, like my Concise Hist
Author : John Ely Burchard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book The Architecture of America written by John Ely Burchard and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David P. Handlin
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 9780500202005
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (2 download)
Download or read book American Architecture written by David P. Handlin and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1985 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of U.S. architecture, looks at public buildings, offices, and homes, and discusses influential movements and architects.
Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Sticks and Stones written by Lewis Mumford and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Keith Eggener
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134399243
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book American Architectural History written by Keith Eggener and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new text presents a collection of recent writings on architecture and urbanism in the United States, with topics ranging from colonial to contemporary times. In terms of content and scope, there is no collection, in or out of print, directly comparable to this one. The essays are drawn from the past twenty years' of publishing in the field, arranged chronologically from colonial to contemporary and accessible in thematic groupings, contextualized and introduced by Keith Eggener. Drawing together 24 illustrated essays by major and emerging scholars in the field, American Architectural History is a valuable resource for students of the history of American art, architecture, urbanism, and material culture.
