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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Mies van der Rohes Farnsworth House
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE Early Examples from the
Book SynopsisThis wonderful volume contains over three hundred images and line drawings detailing the influence of Dutch, Swedish, and English colonization on the wonderful examples of colonial architecture built in Delaware. Covering a period of time ranging from 1660-1840, these buildings span a range of styles, primarily residential, but including churches, public buildings, and even outhouses. Frame, brick, and stone edifices are beautifully portrayed, along with scores of architectural details including windows, doors, and an extraordinary number of interior images featuring fireplaces, paneled rooms, and much more. A section of measured drawings and profiles are invaluable to those hoping to restore or recreate these wonderful expressions by the earliest American architects.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Architecture of Old Mexico Vintage Views of
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Esherick Maloof and Nakashima
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Contemporary Mexican Architecture
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Johns Hopkins University Press Walking in Baltimore An Intimate Guide to the Old
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe newest and best of the vade mecums... Mr. Shivers lays out about a dozen tours, stretching from Patterson Park to Federal Hill to Bolton Hill... Whoever reads this guide and follows these routes will know a lot more about downtown than most natives do. Baltimore Sun Wander where pianist Eubie Blake pounded out ragtime, and pub crawl where filmmaker John Waters found inspiration. It's history, alive and vibrant, readable even for those whose shoes may never see a Baltimore street. Baltimore MagazineTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction to BaltimorePart I: ToursChapter 1. Inner Harbor Promenade and Vistas From Federal Hill ParkChapter 2. Fells PointChapter 3. CantonChapter 4. Little Italy and Old TownChapter 5. Downtown, the Burnt DistrictChapter 6. Federal Hill, Little Montgomery, and OtterbeinChapter 7. Downtown, the Unburnt DistrictChapter 8. Cathedral Hill and Charles StreetChapter 9. Seton Hill, Park Avenue, and Antique RowChapter 10. Mount Vernon Place and Washington PlaceChapter 11. The Cultural CenterChapter 12. Bolton HillPart II: Places To Go To Indulge Special InterestsInformation for Out-of-TownersAcknowledgmentsFor Further ReadingIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press William and Henry Walters the Reticent Collectors
Book SynopsisRichly illustrated with black-and-white photographs and sixteen pages of full color, this book will fascinate anyone interested in Baltimore history, the history of museums and art collecting in America, and the art and culture of nineteenth-century America.Trade ReviewAn excellent portrait of the father and son who assembled the [Walters Art Gallery] collection and turned it over to the people of Baltimore and the world... Johnston skillfully handles both the complex business transactions of the Walters family and their varied interests in both the art of their day and in historical collecting. Highly recommended. Library JournalTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPreface AcknowledgementsChapter 1. The Early Years, 1819–1861Chapter 2. The Years Abroad, 1861–1865Chapter 3. The Postwar Recovery, 1866–1884Chapter 4. The Years of Fruition, 1884–1894Chapter 5. The Son Succeeds His Father, 1894–1909Chapter 6. The Walters Gallery, 1909–1919Chapter 7. The Final Years, 1919–1931Chapter 8. PostscriptAppendixNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Architecture of Baltimore An Illustrated
Book SynopsisThis book expands coverage of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and completes the twentieth century. It takes a comprehensive historical overview of the social and economic forces that allowed the architects of Baltimore to produce some of the best buildings in America.Trade ReviewThe definitive inventory and guide to the architectural history of one of the premiere old cities of the United States... Any long-established Baltimorean should treasure this volume for its celebration of tradition and innovation. Newly arrived Baltimoreans could find no finer guide to what the place looks like and how it came to be this way-and why. -- Michael Pakenham Baltimore Sun 2004 A handsome 400-pager chronicles the social, political, and economic development of Baltimore along with the architecture. -- Tom Chalkley City Paper Everything you always wanted to know about the notable architecture of the city of Baltimore is contained in this single volume 'of forgotten lore,' to paraphrase the Baltimorean Edgar Allen Poe. This book has been lovingly produced by Johns Hopkins University Press. Choice 2005 Over 600 stunning black and white photos, drawings, paintings, and illustrated floor plans that capture the evolution of Baltimore. -- Kristin Shinham Chesapeake Home Magazine 2005Table of ContentsForewordIntroductionChapter 1. Georgian Baltimore, 1752–1790Chapter 2. General Designs, Town and Country, 1789–1819Chapter 3. Monumental Baltimore, 1806–1831 Chapter 4. The Reign of the Romantics, 1829–1878Chapter 5. Industrial Designs, 1840–1917Chapter 6. Eclectic City, 1865–1904Chapter 7. Modernisms, Modernists, and Modernity, 1904–1955Chapter 8. Building a Renaissance, 1955–2000GalleryNotesGlossaryAcknowledgementsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Annapolis City on the Severn
Book SynopsisAs unique as the city it describes, Annapolis, City on the Severn builds on the most recent scholarship and offers readers a fascinating portrait into the past of this great city.Trade ReviewEven casual readers will find this new book hard to put down. -- Earl Kelly HometownAnnapolis.com A detailed narrative. Scitech Book News Critics are hailing Jane Wilson McWilliams for her masterful history of Annapolis-a carefully researched, well illustrated, and beautifully written account of Maryland's state capital. -- John Lang Washington College Magazine Jane McWilliams has created a landmark work of scholarship, a comprehensive, interesting and very readable work destined to enlighten generations to come. -- Hampton 'Skip' Auld Bay Weekly McWilliams has delivered this history evenly and concisely, but also in a style that is quite entertaining. -- Ray Langston Anne Arundel County Public Library Happenings!Table of ContentsPreface1. Out of the Wilderness, a Town, 1649 to 17082. A Chartered City, 1708 to 17643. Annapolis and the Nation, 1764 to 17904. Annapolis Alone, 1790 to 18455. A Military Town, 1845 to 18706. Great Expectations, 1870 to 19087. Promise Denied, 1908 to 19408. A Threatened City, 1940 to 19609. The City Preserved, 1960 to 1975EpilogueAcknowledgmentsAppendix 1: Census TablesAppendix 2: Cemeteries in and around AnnapolisNotesIndex
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Bloomsbury Publishing USA Simple Shelters Tents Tipis Yurts Domes and Other
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University of Minnesota Press Pedestrian Modern
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Centers and Peripheries1. The Store Problem2. Machines for Selling3. “Park and Shop”4. Pedestrianization Takes Command5. The Cold War Pedestrian6. The Language of Modern ShoppingConclusion: Pedestrian Modern FuturesNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press City Choreographer Lawrence Halprin in Urban
Book SynopsisTrade Review "This is an important study of one of the most significant figures in 20th century landscape architecture and urban design. Alison Bick Hirsch has written the first significant critical assessment of several of Lawrence Halprin's most iconic works nad the historically important and controversial Take Part workshops. With access to his collected papers and both Halprin prior to his death and his wife, the equally important and innovative modern dancer and choreographer, Anna, Hirsch focuses critical attention upon their collaboration and development on urban 'scores' in the tumultuous era of the 1960s and 70s, as well as their dramatic differences." —Laurie D. Olin, partner, The OLIN Studio"The cogent writing and comprehensive research of the first two sections soar, making this book fundamental to future researchers."—CHOICE"Hirsch’s book has enough distance from its subject and time period that readers may recognize themselves and their own dilemmas in it."—Planning Magazine"Hirsch’s book contributes to a growing body of historical research interested in activism and social engagement in environmental design fields."—Planning Perspectives"Hirsch has authored a handsome book. . . some of the period photos are delightful, featuring children and adults cavorting in fountains and expressing a collective joy in public gathering."—Journal of Planning Education and ResearchTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Scoring the Participatory City1. The Creative Origins of Larry and Anna HalprinPart I. Built Work2. Framing Civic Rituals: Market Street, Nicollet Mall, Heritage Park Plaza3. Designing with Nature as “Archetypal Precedent”: Portland Open Space Sequence, Seattle Freeway Park, Manhattan Square ParkPart II. Community Workshops4. The Take Part Process: Halprin & Associates in Participatory Design5. Facilitation and/or Manipulation: The Challenges of Taking Part in Fort Worth, Everett, Charlottesville, and ClevelandConclusion: Choreography and the Contemporary CityNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Making Suburbia
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Contributors attempt to remove stereotypes-- plenty are called out-- and to legitimate suburbs as a field of study. The topics covered here might fall into several fields ranging from sociology to urban planning, remain peripheral to them, or provoke further investigation."—CHOICE"The book succeeds in demolishing the single sterile stereotype of suburbia."—Planning Magazine"Demonstrating suburbia’s mobility as both metaphor and materiality, the collection’s diverse accounts of communities, families, and their dwellings evidence how the borders between the cul-de-sac and beyond remain malleable. Take together, the collection answers “yes” to the question, “Do these places matter?” and reaffirms the call for scholars to further study the complexity of suburbia."—Historical Geography"I greatly enjoyed reading Making Suburbia and highly recommend it for academic study as well as personal interest."—Journal of Planning Education and ResearchTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Making, Performing, Living SuburbiaJohn Archer, Paul J. P. Sandul, and Katherine SolomonsonPart I. Mobilizing1. The Social Fallout of Racial Politics: Civic Engagement in Suburban Pasadena, 1950–2000Becky Nicolaides2. Race, Planning, and Activism on Philadelphia’s Main LineTrecia Pottinger3. Defending “Women Who Stand by the Sink”: Suburban Homemakers and Anti-ERA Activism in New York StateStacie Taranto4. Gay Organizing in the “Desert of Suburbia” of Metropolitan DetroitTim Retzloff5. Ecological Preservation in Suburban AtlantaChristopher SellersPart II. Representing6. Metaburbia: The Evolving Suburb in Contemporary FictionMartin Dines7. Suburban Memory Works: Historical Representation and Meaning in Orangevale, CaliforniaPaul J. P. Sandul8. Does This Place Really Matter? The Preservation Debate in Denver’s Postwar SuburbsHeather Bailey9. Yards and Everyday Life in MinneapolisUrsula Lang10. Suburban Rhetorics: Planning and Design for American Shopping, 1930–1960David Smiley11. This Old House of the Future: Remixing Progress and Nostalgia in Suburban Domestic DesignHolley WlodarczykPart III. Gathering12. Everyday Racialization: Contesting Space and Identity in Suburban St. LouisJodi Rios13. The Vibrant Life of Asian Malls in Silicon ValleyWillow Lung-Amam14. Spaces for Youth in Suburban Protestant ChurchesGretchen Buggeln15. Sanctifying the SUV: Megachurches, the Prosperity Gospel, and the Suburban ChristianCharity R. CarneyPart IV. Building16. The Fabric of Spying: Double Agents and the Suburban Cold WarAndrew Friedman17. Selling Suburbia: Marshall Erdman’s Marketing Strategies for Prefabricated Buildings in the Postwar United StatesAnna Vemer Andrzejewski18. A Tiny Orchestra in the Living Room: Hi-Fidelity Sound, Stereo Systems, and the Postwar HouseDianne Harris19. Suburban Noise: Getting Inside Garage RockSteve Waksman20. The Complex: Social Difference and the Suburban Apartment in Postwar AmericaMatthew Gordon Lasner21. The Outdoor Kitchen and Twenty-first Century DomesticityBeverly K. GrindstaffAfterwordMargaret CrawfordContributorsIndex
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Wesleyan University Press Connecticut Architecture
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive illustrated history of Connecticut architectureTable of ContentsPreface Map of the 100 Places OVERVIEW: CONNECTICUT AND ITS PLACES Looking at Architecture The Land History PART ONE: SHAPING THE LANDSCAPE The First Builders: Mohegan Hill, Uncasville Colonial Framework: Main Street, South Windsor Garden by the Sea: Eolia (Harkness Memorial State Park), Waterford Reshaping the Landscape: Rocky River Hydroelectric Station, New Milford Modernism in the Garden: The Glass House, New Canaan Landscape on a Grand Scale: Saville Dam and Barkhamsted Reservoir, Barkhamsted The Roar of the Landscape: Lime Rock Park, Salisbury Architecture for the Environment: Kroon Hall, Yale University, New Haven PART TWO: MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGIES Wood for Stone: New London County Courthouse, New London Something Old, Something New: Noroton Presbyterian Church, Darien Connecticut Stone: Portland Brownstone Quarries, Portland Engineering Beauty: Lover’s Leap Bridge, New Milford Buildings from the Assembly Line: Winslow Ames and Steel Houses, New London Inside the Sapphire: First Presbyterian Church, Stamford PART THREE: WHERE WE LIVE For the Middling Sort: Benjamin Hall Jr. House, Guilford Temple Mania: Samuel Russell and William Trench Houses, Middletown Artistic Design: Mark Twain House, Hartford Behind the Scenes: Wallace T. Fenn House, Wethersfield Local Specialty: Perfect Sixes, Hartford Art versus the Machine: Nathaniel R. Bronson House, Middlebury Comfortable Houses: Beaver Hills, New Haven From Cape Cod to Connecticut: Axel Nelson House, Waterford Redesigning the Suburbs: Heritage Village, Southbury PART FOUR: WORKING THE LAND The Business of Farming: Thomas Catlin Jr. Farm, Litchfield Modest Farm: Cyrus Wilson Farm, Harwinton The Rhythm of the Seasons: Tobacco Farms, Windsor Agricultural Showplace: Hilltop Farm, Suffield Connecticut Catskills: Orchard Mansion, Moodus Scientific Farming: Wengloski Poultry House, Lebanon PART FIVE: MEANS OF PRODUCTION Industrial Beginnings: Ledyard Up-Down Sawmill, Ledyard The Company Town: Collinsville Iron Making: Beckley Furnace, North Canaan Industrial Structure and Aesthetics: Hockanum Mill, Rockville The Power of Water: Ousatonic Dam, Derby and Shelton Industrial Specialization: Clark Brothers Factory, Southington Industrial Campanile: Remington Shot Tower, Bridgeport Industry in the Suburbs: Medway Business Park, Meriden and Wallingford Corporate Pride: Union Carbide Headquarters, Danbury PART SIX: TOWNSCAPES AND CITYSCAPES The Ideal Village: Colebrook Center Civic Embellishment: New Haven Green Greater Than Its Parts: Downtown Norwich Under the Mill Towers: North Grosvenordale Consumer Culture: The Arcade, Bridgeport Unnecessary Excellence: Seaside Village, Bridgeport Fantasy Palace: Warner Theatre, Torrington Renewing the City: Constitution Plaza and the Phoenix Building, Hartford New Urbanism: Blue Back Square, West Hartford Suburban Chinatown: Montville PART SEVEN: FROM PLACE TO PLACE Lights along the Shore: Harbor and Ledge Lighthouses, New London Architecture Travels New Roads: Two Houses, Thompson Hill Canal Engineering: Enfield Falls Canal, Windsor Locks and Suffield River Traffic: Steamboat Dock, Essex Gateway to the City: Union Station, New London To Enjoy as We Go: The Merritt Parkway Highway Culture: The Berlin Turnpike, Berlin and Newington PART EIGHT: BODY, MIND, AND SOUL Puritan Finery: First Church of Christ, Wethersfield Schools for All: Little Red School, Winchester The Big House: Middletown Alms House, Middletown Meetinghouse to Church: Warren Congregational Church, Warren Memory and Antiquity: Groton Battle Monument, Groton Church in Society: Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church Complex, Baltic Therapeutic Landscape: The Institute of Living, Hartford Holy Retreat: Plainville Campground, Plainville Model School: Locust Avenue School, Danbury Built for Healing: The Seaside, Waterford Aging Revolutionary: Ansonia High School Comfort for the Dying: Connecticut Hospice, Branford PART NINE: DESIGNERS, BUILDERS, AND CLIENTS Master Builder: Epaphroditus Champion House, East Haddam From the Inside Out: Phelps-Hatheway House, Suffield Architecture from Books: Willis Bristol House, New Haven Under the Radar: Walter Bunce House, Manchester Homes for the People: Barnum-Sherwood Development, Bridgeport Handmade: Avon Old Farms School, Avon When Is a Copy More Than a Copy? Yale Divinity School, New Haven Onion Dome in the Countryside: Saint Philip the Apostle Catholic Church, Ashford Your Taxes at Work: People’s State Forest Museum, Barkhamsted The Business of Houses: Broadview Lane, Warehouse Point, East Windsor Modernist Patronage: Torin Company Buildings, Torrington PART TEN: COLONIAL AND COLONIAL REVIVAL English Beginnings: Buttolph-Williams House, Wethersfield The Connecticut House: Deacon Adams House, New Hartford Our Own History: Horace Bushnell Congregational Church, Hartford Inventing Restoration: Hyland House, Guilford American Style: Waterbury City Hall, Waterbury Townwide Makeover: Litchfield The Last Vernacular: Houses by Alice Washburn, Hamden Back to History: Salisbury Town Hall, Salisbury PART ELEVEN: MEANING AND MESSAGE Connecticut Valley Baroque: Ebenezer Grant House, South Windsor Republican Simplicity: Old State House, Hartford Federal Presence: United States Custom House, New London One Style, Two Messages: Two Houses in Plainfield The Architecture of Citizenship: Connecticut State Capitol, Hartford American Renaissance: James Blackstone Memorial Library, Branford Immigrant Success: Villa Friuli, Torrington Native American Renaissance: Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, Mashantucket PART TWELVE: TRANSFORMATIONS How Buildings Learn: Taintor House, Hampton City Beautiful: Downtown Naugatuck Change and Similarity: Canaan Institutional Baptist Church, Norwalk Hazardous Duty: Wilcox, Crittenden & Company Factory, Middletown Model City: Dixwell Plaza, New Haven New Life for Old Buildings: Cheney Yarn Dye House, Manchester Afterword Architectural Glossary Index
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Vanderbilt University Press Architecture of Middle Tennessee
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1974, Architecture of Middle Tennessee quickly became a record of some of the region's most important and most endangered buildings. This new, expanded edition contains all the original text and images from the first volume, plus many of the forgotten archived materials collected by HABS in the 1970s.Table of Contents Preface to the New Edition Preface Acknowledgments Government and Public Buildings Tennessee State Capitol (Nashville), 1845-1859 Tennessee State Penitentiary (Nashville), 1895-1897 Federal Building (Old Clarksville Post Office), 1897-1898 Commercial Structures Poston Buildings (Clarksville), ca. 1843 S. D. Morgan and Company (Nashville), 1856 The Grange Warehouse (Clarksville), 1858 or 1859 Second Avenue, North, Commercial District (Nashville), 1896-1920(?) Werthan Bag Corporation (Nashville), 1871-188os Bear Spring Furnace (Dover), 1873 Ryman Auditorium (Nashville), 1888-1892 Union Station (Nashville), 1898-1900 Public Arcade (Nashville), 1902 Churches St. Mary's Cathedral, Roman Catholic (Nashville), 1844-1847 First Presbyterian Church (Nashville), 1849-1851 Zion Presbyterian Church (Columbia), 1849 Holy Trinity Episcopal Church (Nashville), 1852-1887 Schools, Institutions University of Nashville-Children's Museum (Nashville), 1853 Jubilee Hall, Fisk University (Nashville), 1876 Vanderbilt University Gymnasium (Nashville), 1880 West Side Row, Vanderbilt University (Nashville), 1886-1887 Residences Rock Castle (Hendersonville), 1784-1797(?) Hays-Kiser House (Antioch), ca. 1796 Travellers' Rest {Nashville), 1799-1885 Cragfont (Gallatin), 1802 Oaklands (Murfreesboro), 1815, 1825, 1859-1860 The Hermitage {Nashville), 1819 Wessyngton (Robertson County), 1819 Castalian Springs-Wynnewood (Gallatin), 1828 Carter House (Franklin), 1830 Fairvue {Gallatin), 1832 Rattle and Snap (Columbia), 1845 Adolphus Heiman House {Nashville), 1845-1850(?) Belmont (Nashville), 1850 Worker's House (Nashville), ca. 185 Two Rivers {Nashville), 1859 Epilogue
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Rizzoli International Publications The Genius of Venice Piazza San Marco and the
Book SynopsisAn ideal volume for lovers of Venice and architecture aficionados, combining in-depth history of this singular city with more than 100 color photographs and maps. Of Venice’s many majestic spaces, none is as evocative and significant as the Piazza San Marco. An authoritative account of the development of the entire piazza complex, through which unfolds the history of the Republic in general, The Genius of Venice celebrates the city’s oldest and most important architectural site. Dial Parrott’s view of Venice is a heroic one. From their lagoon, the bold and calculating Venetians forged a city that stands today not merely as an attraction for millions, but as a testament to architectural genius: the epitome of what we now call New Urbanism and a shining example of Western communal art. Enhanced by more than 100 illustrations, The Genius of Venice presents the magnificent edifices of the piazza as, in the words of John Ruskin, the living books of history of this iconic Trade Review“Parrott’s multifaceted, historical work allows readers to grasp the evolution of Venetian self-identity from the early Middle Ages to the Age of the Renaissance in an immediately apprehensible form.” ~Gather.com “The Genius of Venice is a brilliant book that blends the art, politics, social and cultural history of Venice through a masterful and engaging account of the development of Piazza San Marco. Dial Parrot’s skillful interweaving of research from different periods and disciplines heightens the experience, as if reading several books at once, brought to life with the immediacy of a modern thriller. The Genius of Venice is an ideal volume for lovers of Venice and architecture aficionados, featuring an in-depth history of this singular city.” ~Italian Tribune“After two decades of lengthy and thorough research and seven years of writing, Parrott successfully delivers one of those most unique books dedicated to the complex history and establishment of la Serenissima…Parrott’s presentation of Venice is interesting since he depicts Venice more from a Mediterranean point of view, than a European perspective, thus offering a different mindset of Venice’s beginnings and rise to glory…clear and descriptive writing transports the reader to Piazza San Marco. Even if you’ve never been to Venice Parrott takes you there. Be careful, once you’re done with the book, you’ll be booking your plane ticket to Venice.” ~Ambassador Magazine
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SSP Publications A Light in the Field
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Wisconsin Historical Society Press Wisconsins Own Twenty Remarkable Homes
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Wisconsin Historical Society Press Frank Lloyd Wrights Penwern
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Bauhan (William L.),U.S. The Arts and Crafts Houses of Massachusetts
Book SynopsisMeticulously researched and with abundant color photos, the book is the only work focusing on the state's Arts and Crafts domestic architecture and the only one to include an illustrated field guide.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Shaker Architecture
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Ibis Press Gothic Cathedrals
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Survey of Chester County Pennsylvania
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Van Siclen Books Description of a View of the Great Temple of
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Heritage of London Trust Ltd Parish Churches of Greater London
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SSP Publications Building for Justice
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MIT School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) Architecture and Action
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St. Martin's Press Egypts Golden Couple
Book SynopsisTwo celebrated Egyptologists bring to vivid life the intriguing and controversial reign of King Tut''s parents.Akhenaten has been the subject of radically different, even contradictory, biographies. The king has achieved fame as the world''s first individual and the first monotheist, but others have seen him as an incestuous tyrant who nearly ruined the kingdom he ruled. The gold funerary mask of his son Tutankhamun and the painted bust of his wife Nefertiti are the most recognizable artifacts from all of ancient Egypt. But who are Akhenaten and Nefertiti? And what can we actually say about rulers who lived more than three thousand years ago?November 2022 marks the centennial of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun and although King Tut is a household name, his nine-year rule pales in comparison to the revolutionary reign of his parents. Akhenaten and Nefertiti became gods on earth by transforming Egyptian solar worship, innovating in art and urban design,
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OM Book Service Loose Leaf for Buildings Across Time An
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Architecture and Retrenchment
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWith consummate authority, Helena Mattsson tracks architecture’s multifaceted, frequently counterintuitive role in the dismantling of Sweden’s welfare state. Among so much else, this vivid, theoretically nuanced history of unaccountable power shows how biopolitics stitches architecture and urbanism to political economy, and vice versa. * Reinhold Martin, Professor of Architecture, Columbia University, USA *With devastating clarity and attention to how buildings and projects emerge, Helena Mattsson demonstrates that architects don’t simply provide the image of the neoliberal built environment, they actively develop the concepts, practices and collaborations that bring it about. * Katie Lloyd Thomas, Professor of Theory and History of Architecture, Newcastle University, UK *Helena Mattson’s book adds significantly to the growing literature on the ‘postmodern and neoliberal turn’ in architecture, by highlighting its complex and place-specific character: its focus on neoliberalisation’s trajectory in the welfare-state bastion of Sweden provides a welcome corrective to stereotypical ‘Anglosphere’ narratives. * Miles Glendinning, Professor of Architectural Conservation, University of Edinburgh, UK *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: The Next Supermodel Site 1: The Model (1968) Site 2: The Suburb (1968) Theme: Corporatism Site 3: The Collective House (1935–1993) Theme: Human Capital Site 4: The Globe(1982–1989) Theme: The Code Site 5: The Postmodern Housing Area (1981–1987) Theme: Emancipations Site 6: The Renewal (1988–1993) Epilogue: Elephant & Castle References Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Reconstruction
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIt has taken nearly a hundred years for the history of interwar British architecture to be discussed widely in an even-handed and pluralistic manner. Reconstruction takes a significant step towards mapping the territory and demonstrating how it can be done. * Alan Powers, London School of Architecture, UK *Looking beyond the well-known architectural icons of the 20s and 30s, this detailed examination of many previously overlooked buildings of a key period, gives a broader understanding of architectural practice and richly demonstrates the ways in which the study of architecture can reveal and tell complex stories about a rapidly changing society. * Catherine Croft, Director of C20 Society, UK *Table of ContentsList of figures List of contributors Foreword: Towards Narratives of Modernity After Reconstruction – Elizabeth Darling Acknowledgements Introduction - Neal Shasore and Jessica Kelly Section I: Promoting the Business of Architecture Introduction - Neal Shasore and Jessica Kelly I: Criticism: The Architectural Press and the Public - Jessica Kelly II: Professionalism: The American Influence on British Architectural Practice - H Horatio Joyce III: Regulation: The New London - Eileen Chanin IV: Development: Speculative Office Development and Public Sector Tenants - Jonathan Clarke Section II: Designing Community Infrastructure Introduction - Neal Shasore and Jessica Kelly V: Community Centre: New Housing Estates in Scotland - Alistair Fair VI: Public House: The Carlisle Experiment and the Improved Public House - Julian Holder VII: Parish: Democratic Participation in Suburban Parish Churches - Clare Price Section III: Building a Rural Citizenry Introduction - Neal Shasore and Jessica Kelly VIII: Yeoman: Land Settlement and Cottage Small Holdings - Rebecca Preston and Joanna Smith IX: Veteran: Annabel Dott and Colonial, Metropolitan and Rural Communities - Elizabeth McKellar X: Student: Henry Morris and the First Village Colleges - Kieran Mahon Section IV: Binding Subjects through Statecraft Introduction - Neal Shasore XI: Citizenship: Welfare and the Democratic State in Percy Thomas’s Civic Architecture - Robert Proctor XII: Memory: Sir Herbert Baker, Rhodes House and the Architecture of Memory - Geoffrey Tyack XIII: Diocese: Cairo Cathedral and the Politics of Liberal Anglican Church Design - David Lewis Section V: Wedding Peace with Well-Being XIV: Sickness: Advances in British Hospital Design after the First World War - Harriet Richardson Blakeman XV: Health: Democracy, Diversity, Dispersal - Barry Doyle Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Amsterdam Town Hall in Words and Images
Book SynopsisStijn Bussels studies the impact of art and architecture and published widely, in Art History, Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, Comparative Drama, and more. He has written two monographs: The Antwerp Entry of Prince Philip in 1549 (2012) and The Animated Image (2013).Caroline van Eck's main research interests are art and architectural history and theory of the early modern period and the relation between rhetoric and the arts and architecture. Publications include Classical Rhetoric and the Arts and Art, Agency and Living Presence (2014). In 2016 she was elected to the first established Chair in Art History at Cambridge University, UK.Bram Van Oostveldt has published widely on the relation between the theatre, the arts and architecture in the early modern Low Countries. He published a monograph on the influence of Diderot in Brussels theatre and on the performing arts in the Austrian Netherlands and now workTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction - Stijn Bussels, Caroline van Eck and Bram Van Oostveldt 2. The Palace of the Republic: Idea and Construction - Pieter Vlaardingerbroek 3. The Amsterdam Town Hall: The Triumphant Statement of a Successor State - Caroline van Eck 4. ‘Far More to Wonder, than to Fathom Completely’: One Hundred Poems Devoted to the Town Hall - Stijn Bussels, Caroline van Eck and Laura Plezier 5. The Portrait of a Building - Stijn Bussels 6. The Exercise of Power: The Caryatids of the Town Hall’s Tribunal - Frederik Knegtel 7. Jacob’s Trowels : The Construction of the Amsterdam Town Hall and Its Ceremonial Objects (1648–present) - Minou Schraven 8. Under Discussion: Eighteenth-Century Reactions to the Town Hall - Freek Schmidt Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Material Modernity
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations 1. Introduction I New Materials in Artistic Applications 2. Making Lemonade out of Lemons: Merz and Material Property, Maria Makela 3. Experimentation and Invention at Weaving at the Bauhaus, Isabel Wünsche 4. Paper Promises: Inflation and the Insufficiency of Ersatz in Weimar Germany, Erin Sullivan Maynes 5. Abject Objects: Til Brugman, Evidentiary Representation, and Sexology’s Celluloid Fixation, Thomas O. Haakenson II New Chemicals and Reprographic Processes 6. Visual Explosion in the Weimar Era’s Print Media, Andres Mario Zervigon 7. Lazlo MoholyNagy: Adventures in Light, Space and Time, Donna West Brett III Traditional Materials in New Applications 8. The Emperor’s New Glass: Transparency as Substance and Symbol in Interwar Design, Freyja Hartzell 9. Inverted Cubism or the Spatial Painting: Adolf Rading’s House Dr. Rabe, Deborah Ascher Barnstone 10. Renee Sintenis, Wendt & Kühn, Lotte Pritzel: Modes, Markets, and Materials in Domestic Objects, 1910-1930, Nina Lübbren Contributors Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Following NorbergSchulz
Book SynopsisAnna Ulrikke Andersen, Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford, UK, is a Norwegian architectural historian and filmmaker.Trade ReviewAnna has demonstrated that to follow a fellow Norwegian architect of another generation, is to find similarities, to seek coincidences, to shadow, to re-enact, to track, to go along (often in faith), to act under the influence of, to act under the shadow of, to carry the weight of this person, and in so doing, to put her own writing self at risk. To follow is also to admire, to support, to understand. The book ... has qualities of a detective novel where clues are allowed to travel their distance, to expend their conclusions, and to spin more questions about the missing protagonist. * Site-Reading Writing Quarterly *Andersen’s approach is unconventional, but also compelling and timely. On the one hand, it draws on recent attempts at developing critical spatial practice in postgraduate practice-based research programs, where the designer’s skillsets and creative output are utilized as research method. Simultaneously, her book is published amidst a wide-ranging questioning of the assumptions underpinning the field of architectural phenomenology. Yet Andersen manages to practice phenomenology in an open and self-reflective way, able to critically re-engage the difficulties and failings in Norberg-Schulz’s approach while displaying a poetic sensibility that allows for a more refined appreciation of his position. * Montreal Architectural Review *Anna Ulrikke Andersen’s wondrous book is many things at once: a window onto the work of the Norwegian architectural theorist, an artist’s probing journey of discovery and persistent self-examination, a portal to imaginative interventions that frame and reframe Norberg-Schulz’s legacy from ever different angles. A true tour de force, as insightful and critically demanding as creative and aesthetically playful! * Lutz Koepnick, Vanderbilt University, USA *A truly original piece of work with an innovative methodology that combines archival historical research with artistic and documentary film practice. Andersen provides a situated critical evaluation of the work and ideas of an influential, yet misunderstood, figure in the history, theory and practice of 20th century architecture, approaching the subject matter with intelligence and care. * Penelope Haralambidou, University College London, UK *Table of ContentsList of illustrations Framework Christian Norberg-Schulz (1926-2000) The Essay form in Film and Writing Itinerary Acknowledgements Maps Window 1 | Trondheim Place Practice Essay: The Sound of a Windowpane Shattering Window 2 | Oslo Place Practice Essay: By the Window Window 3 | Journey Place Practice Essay: At the Window of a Train Window 4 | Hamburg – Basel Place Practice Essay: Three Windows on Europe 1945 Window 5 | Rome Place Practice Essay: Fill in that window! Move into that Frame! Window 6 | Piazza Navona Place Practice Essay: A Campari-Moment by the Water Fountain Window 7 | Calcata Place Practice Essay: Are we not here to Say…Window Window 8 | Sierre Place Practice Essay: Les Fenêtres – en norvégien Window 9 | Oslo Place Practice Essay: Returned, X-rayed and Exposed Window 10 | Trondheim Place Practice Essay: Beyond the Network – ‘Upon’ Return Coda Appendix Christian Norberg-Schulz’s CV Books by or about Rainer Maria Rilke in Christian Norberg-Schulz’s Library References to Rainer Maria Rilke in Christian Norberg-Schulz’s Authorship Bibliography Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press George Washingtons Eye
Book SynopsisBased on careful study of Washington's personal diaries and correspondence and on the lively accounts of visitors to his estate, this richly illustrated book introduces a George Washington unfamiliar to many readers-an avid art collector, amateur architect, and leading landscape designer of his time.Trade ReviewA comprehensive and well-illustrated history of Washington's estate. -- Jay Strafford Richmond Times-Dispatch Manca convincingly argues that George Washington, the 'indispensable man,' was indispensable to American art, too. -- Bob Duggan Big Think.com George Washington's Eye not only sheds light on the first president's keen interest in architecture, landscape gardening, and art collecting but also illuminates his learning process... Those who seek to understand Washington by exploring Mount Vernon will find this book informative and fascinating. -- Stuart Leibiger Journal of American History More inclusive than any previous study of Mount Vernon's architecture, decorative arts, or immediate landscape, [ George Washington's Eye] looks at the physical evidence as well as Washington's writings about art and taste... The book is, therefore, a comprehensive study of Washington's aesthetic choices, from their origins to the objects in which they resulted. While other scholars have catalogued the paintings in Mount Vernon, for example, Manca goes further to consider why Washington hung certain pictures in particular rooms or chose not to display others at all. -- Lydia Mattice Brandt Common-Place This work makes many key contributions to the study of Washington's life and activities. -- Emily Cooperman Winterthur PortfolioTable of ContentsPreface1. George Washington: Morality and the Crafting of Self2. The Mansion House at Mount Vernon and Other Architectural Designs3. George Washington's Portico4. Washington as Gardener: Creating the Landscape5. Mount Vernon and British Gardening6. Prospects, Pictures, and the Picturesque7. Washington as Artist, Critic, Patron, and Collector8. Under His Vine and Fig TreeBiblical and Classical Perfection at Mount VernonEpilogueNotesIndex
£53.75
Johns Hopkins University Press Signs Streets and Storefronts
Book SynopsisA must-read for city planners, town councils, architects, sign designers, concerned citizens, and anyone who cares about the appearance and vitality of America's commercial streets, this heavily illustrated book is equally appealing to armchair historians, small-town enthusiasts, and lovers of Americana.Trade ReviewA must-read for any fan of architecture -- and for city planners. It is a thorough dissection of the trends and clashes that continue to shape and regulate our nation's commercial corridors. -- Mark A. Vernarelli American RoadTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. The Making of Main Street: Transformation and Invention on the Commercial Frontier, 1700s–18992. The Great Blight Way: Electricity and Reform from Main Street to City Center, 1900–19173. Visions and Velocity: The Expansive Age of the Automobile, 1918–19284. Sign as Storefront: America Discovers Modernism, 1929–19455. Landscapes of More and Less: Consequences of Commercial Freedom and Restraint, 1946–19646. Rediscovering Main Street: Retrenchment, Repair, and Reinvention, 1965–2010ConclusionNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
£54.22
Johns Hopkins University Press Frederick Law Olmsted
Book SynopsisThis gorgeous book will appeal to landscape professionals, park administrators, historians, architects, city planners, and students-and it is a perfect gift for Olmsted aficionados throughout North America.Trade ReviewAnyone interested in the fields of landscape design would surely want this book as a reference or simply as a celebration of the first and foremost American landscape architect. Garden Design Online Peer into the mind of the nation's most prolific park maker with this book, which showcases more than 70 public spaces designed by Frederick Law Olmsted... Plans and Views of Public Parks is a visual compendium of Olmsted's work, taking readers on a visual tour through some of America's most significant public landscapes. -- Eryn Carlson Boston Globe Enlightening and lavishly illustrated... Whether your interest is in Olmsted and his work, landscape architecture in general, the development of nature-based recreation, or American history, Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Public Parks can provide a substantial expansion and deepening of your thoughts in your area of interest, as well as help connect it to other related (and perhaps even previously unconsidered) areas of study. Well-read Naturalist A welcome addition to Olmsted scholarship and an excellent companion to the series documenting his extensive papers. Library Journal [ Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Public Parks] is a treasure trove of visual materials, with surprises for even the Olmstedian aficionado. Landscape Architecture Magazine Beveridge, the preeminent Olmsted scholar... gathers in a sumptuous, gorgeous volume of the designs that defined what made many American cities great, and livable. Harvard Magazine These visual documents will generate historical evidence and interpretive questions alike, surely the mark of an important contribution. New England Quarterly Had Olmsted never existed, someone else surely would have applied the moral force of this ethic to landscape design, making parks the vehicle of social reform. But it is inconceivable that anyone else would have had the same deep cistern of human sympathy to drawn on. First ThingsTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentIntroduction1. New York City, New YorkCentral ParkTompkins SquareUnion SquareRiverside ParkMorningside Park2. San Francisco, CaliforniaPleasure Grounds System3. Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Big Tree Grove, CaliforniaReservation4. Brooklyn, New YorkProspect ParkFort Greene ParkTompkins ParkBrooklyn Parkways5. Bridgeport, ConnecticutSeaside ParkBeardsley Park6. Newark, New JerseyProposed Park7. Albany, New YorkProposed Park System8. Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaFairmount Park9. New Britain, ConnecticutWalnut Hill Park10. Buffalo, New YorkPark System, 1870sParkwaysNiagara SquareThe Park (Delaware Park)The FrontThe ParadeLater Extensions and AlterationsSouth Park, 1888 (Proposed)Southside Park System, 1890s11. Fall River, MassachusettsSouth Park12. Hartford, ConnecticutSystem of Public Grounds13. Chicago, IllinoisSouth Park- The Era of 1871-1893The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893- The Lagoon and Wooded IslandPost-Exposition Redesign and Construction of Jackson ParkWashington Park, Post-1893The Midway PlaisanceBoulevards14. Amherst, MassachusettsTown Common15. Baltimore, MarylandMount Vernon Square16. Montreal, QuebecMount Royal17. Detroit, MichiganBelle Isle18. North Easton, MassachusettsMemorial Cairn19. Boston, MassachusettsThe Park SystemCommonwealth AvenueThe Back Bay FensMuddy River Sanitary Improvement, Brookline and BostonOlmstead Park, Boston and BrooklineJamaica Pond and Environs, BostonThe ArborwayThe Arnold ArboretumFranklin ParkFranklin FieldParkways from Franklin Park to Marine ParkMarine ParkBoston Harbor Islands ProposalCharlesbankWood Island ParkCharlestown HeightsCharlestown Playground20. New London, ConnecticutMemorial Park21. St. Catharine's, OntarioMontebello Park22. Niagara Falls, New YorkNiagara Reservation23. Pawtucket, Rhode IslandPublic Recreation Grounds (Proposed)24. Wilmington, DelawareKentmere Parkway25. Trenton, New JerseyCadwalader Park26. Rochester, New YorkPark SystemGenesse Valley ParkHighland ParkSeneca Park27. Louisville, KentuckyPark SystemCherokee ParkIroquois ParkShawnee ParkLouisville ParkwaysLouisville Squares and Places28. Kansas City, MissouriEleventh Street Parkway and Park System (Proposed)Milwaukee, WisconsinPark SystemWest ParkRiver ParkLake Park30. Newburgh, New YorkDowning Park31. Newport, Rhode IslandMorton Park
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Philadelphia Country House
Book SynopsisHighlighting an important aspect of American historic architecture, this handsome volume is illustrated with nearly 150 photographs, more than 60 line drawings, and two color galleries.Trade ReviewSome of them stick in the minds of locals as place names, street names, or both - Belmont, Lansdowne, Stenton, Mount Pleasant. But they started as country houses, well-to-do Philadelphians' answer to English manor houses. You can read all about them and get a good look at them - inside and out - in this very handsome and informative book. Philadelphia Inquirer In this illuminating and handsomely illustrated volume, Mark Reinberger, a senior architectural historian, and Elizabeth McLean, an accomplished scholar of landscape history, examine the country houses that the urban gentry built on the outskirts of Philadelphia in response to both local and international economic forces, social imperatives, and fashion. Magnolia The Philadelphia Country House is the most complete study ever of the city's colonial rural residences. It is likely to remain the definitive word on its subject in the pre-Revolutionary period in Philadelphia's orbit for a long time to come. The volume has been years in the making, and the wealth and depth of information from archival sources and surviving sites that the authors have deployed here is prodigious. This well-illustrated volume includes current photographs complemented by numerous reproductions of historic images, as well as new analytical architectural drawings. Pennsylvania Heritage Colonial Americans did, of course, emulate English architecture and society, yet they created new forms suitable for life in America. Nowhere is the tension better seen than in the bourgeois estates built by wealthy Colonists on the fringes of Philadelphia. Many of these houses still stand, in landscapes that retain much of their history. Through them, we learn about American versions of the classics. In a new book, architectural historian Mark Reinberger and Elizabeth Mclean, an accomplished scholar of landscape history, examine these country houses that nevertheless exhibited city manners. Early Homes This scholarly achievement by Reinberger and McLean is a significant addition to American architecture studies... Recommended for specialists in American architecture and Philadelphia area studies and as a model of architectural and landscape scholarship. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote to ReaderIntroductionPart I1. The Bourgeois Country House in EnglandThe Changing Nature of the English GentryThe Rearrangement of the HouseCountry House and Town HouseThe Compact House in the Seventeenth CenturySeventeenth-Century English Landscape and GardensThe "Reform" of Eighteenth-Century English Architecture and Lands2. The Bourgeois Country House in the ColoniesColonial Architecture at Pennsylvania's FoundingThe Later Colonial Bourgeois Country HouseThe Colonial Landscape3. The Rise of the Philadelphia Country HouseWilliam Penn and the Country LifeThe Lure of the Country in the First Generation, 1682–1722Hiatus in the 1730s4. Fulfillment in the Middle and Late Colonial PeriodsA New Generation of Country SeatsThe Proliferation of Country Seats in the 1740s and 1750sThe General Character and Use of Country Seats at MidcenturyThe Flowering of the 1760s and Denouement in the 1770sPart II5. The Process of Design and BuildingDesign and DrawingThe Process of BuildingLaborChapterElements of Landscape and ArchitectureLandscapeArchitectural ExteriorsInteriorsFramingUrban and Rural7. Organizing the FabricProportionHierarchyRoom Use and Parade8. The Logic of Service SpacesService SpacesThe Working Landscape and AgriculturePart III9. Diversity in the First Generation of Country HousesWilliam Penn's Pennsbury ManorFairhillBelairFountain Low (Later Graeme Park)10. Establishing an Architectural NormStentonThe Progeny of Stenton, Especially Hope Lodge11. The New Ideal of the VillaSpringettsburyBush HillBelmontThe New Ideal of Retirement12. An Explosion and Variety of Country Houses at MidcenturyWoodfordThe Jacob Marks House and Whitby HallCedar Grove, The Cliffs, Grumblethorpe, Mount Airy, Bartram's House and GardenFountain Low to Graeme Park13. The Flowering of the 1760sMount PleasantPort RoyalCliveden14. DenouementLaurel HillWaln GroveSummerseatThe Deshler-Morris HouseThe Thomas Mifflin House (with an Aside on Smith's Octagon)Chalkley HallThe HillsLansdowneConclusionAppendixNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
£60.00
Johns Hopkins University Press The Year of Julius and Caesar
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsMapsPrologue. Caesar and Bibulus: April 4, 59 BC/695 AUCI Caesar and Cato: 60 BC/694 AUCII Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus: 59 BC/695 AUCIII Clodius: 58 BC/696 AUC 00Epilogue. Transformation: 57-31 BC/697-723 AUCAppendixesA. The Roman Republican GovernmentB. Cast of CharactersC. ChronologyD. The Ancient EvidenceE. Dating of Events of the Year 59GlossaryNotesSelected Further ReadingIndex
£64.00
Johns Hopkins University Press A Monument to Dynasty and Death
Book SynopsisGo behind the scenes to discover why the Colosseum was the king of amphitheaters in the Roman worlda paragon of Roman engineering prowess. Early one morning in 80 CE, the Colosseum roared to life with the deafening cheers of tens of thousands of spectators as the emperor, Titus, inaugurated the new amphitheater with one hundred days of bloody spectacles. These games were much anticipated, for the new amphitheater had been under construction for a decade. Home to spectacles involving exotic beasts, elaborate executions of criminals, gladiatorial combats, and evenwhen floodedsmall-scale naval battles, the building itself was also a marvel. Rising to a height of approximately 15 stories and occupying an area of 6 acresmore than four times the size of a modern football fieldthe Colosseum was the largest of all amphitheaters in the Roman Empire. In A Monument to Dynasty and Death, Nathan T. Elkins tells the story of the Colosseum's construction under Vespasian, its dedication under Titus,Trade ReviewElkins' focus on the political and ideological importance of the Flavian amphitheater and the events it housed offers a valuable addition to the growing body of general audience resources on Rome's Colosseum.—Elisha Ann Dumser, University of Akron, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsPrologue. Opening Day at the Colosseum I. The Rise of a New Dynasty II. A Modern Amphitheater in Ancient RomeIII. An Amphitheater in the Heart of RomeIV. A Hundred Days of GamesV. The Colosseum and Its First Games in Flavian Art and LiteratureEpilogue. The End of the "Flavian" AmphitheaterAcknowledgmentsNotesSuggested Further ReadingIndex
£43.00
Johns Hopkins University Press The Great Fire of Rome
Book SynopsisA thrilling and momentous account of the Great Fire of Rome and how a modern city arose from its embers. Peril was everywhere in ancient Rome, but the Great Fire of 64 CE was unlike anything the city had ever experienced. No building, no neighborhood, no person was safe from conflagration. When the fire finally subsidedafter burning for nine days straightvast swaths of Rome were in ruins. The greatest city of the ancient world had endured its greatest blow. In The Great Fire of Rome, Joseph J. Walsh tells the true story of this deadly episode in Rome's history. He explains why Rome was such a vulnerable tinderbox, outlines the difficulties of life in that exciting and dangerous city, and recounts the fire's aftermath and legacya legacy that includes the transformation of much of ancient Rome into a modern city. Situating the fire within the context of other perils that residents of Rome faced, including frequent flooding, pollution, crime, and dangerously shoddy construction, he highTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue I Perils of Life in Rome II Inferno III The Day After IV Neropolis V Legacy Appendix A. Sources Appendix B. Proposed Timeline of the Great Fire Notes Suggested Further Reading Index
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Pelican Publishing Co. New Orleans Icons
Book SynopsisA heritage crafted of elegance and strength. The wrought and cast ironwork of New Orleans is lauded worldwide for its intricacy and timelessness. Generations of artisans have labored to create the unyielding filigrees that guard windows, doors, and, gardens. Now, award-winning author Kit Wohl eloquently marries her passions for art, photography, and metalwork in this stunning tour of Crescent City craftsmanship. Graced with photographs of the city's most famed works, histories of each piece and its location transport readers on a journey of elegance and beauty. From the famous cornstalk fence to the storied splendor of the Pontalba Buildings, these vignettes illuminate the rich tapestry of New Orleans's heritage.
£16.19
Pelican Publishing Co Visions of the Vieux Carr
Book SynopsisA glimpse into the wonders of the French Quarter. The French Quarter has placed countless tourists and locals under its spell for centuries. From iconic sites like the St. Louis Cathedral to elegant, early nineteenth-century private residences, this striking collection of photographs reveals the vibrant and majestic world of the Vieux Carré. With 30 color photographs and full captions, this work transports you through the Quarter's most classic sites and hidden courtyards to uncover the true, enchanting spirit of the city.
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Pelican Publishing Co New Orleans Houses A HouseWatchers Guide
Book SynopsisArchitecturally unique, New Orleans has been called the greatest outdoor museum in the world. Glimpses of history can be found in the balconies, arches, and stained-glass windows of its homes, from simple Creole cottages to suburban ranch houses. Written as a house-watchers guide, New Orleans Houses enables the layperson to estimate the date of a houses construction, within ten to fifteen years, and to place it in a historical time frame by studying its architectural details. The author discusses each building style in the context of the major events, personages, and issues of the period during which the buildings were erected. Over 100 illustrations, including drawings of existing New Orleans homes as well as composite sketches, highlight the characteristics commonly associated with certain types of homes, making New Orleans Houses as much an art book as it is a reference guide. A glossary clarifies the sometimes-confusing terminology used in discussing architecture. It also define
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DK Architecture
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DK Design Second Edition
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Inexpensive, concise, and lavishly illustrated, this book is recommended for any library." — Booklist (Starred Review)"…luxurious visuals that include timelines, historical photos, designer portraits and a tremendous selection of products and art." — Columbus Dispatch"Flip through pages showcasing the evolution of telephones, armchairs, word processors, and more … For anyone looking to bridge a generation gap, visuals are always a good way to go and the visuals in this book are stunning." — Forbes.com
£42.50
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Clevelands Millionaires Row Images of America
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£19.99
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Grand Estates of Grosse Pointe Images of America
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