History of architecture Books
Yale University Press Florence
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£25.00
Yale University Press Origins Invention Revision
Book SynopsisAn illuminating collection of essays from the preeminent scholar of architectural history and theoryTrade Review"As he approaches his century - he was born in 1919 - it is a pleasure to welcome Jame Ackerman's collection of eight essays and to note that he is as inquisitive, as lively and as wide-ranging as he ever was."-Joseph Rkywert, Art Newspaper -- Joseph Rkywert Art Newspaper
£26.12
Yale University Press Hardwick Hall
Book SynopsisTrade Review“It is impressive that the National Trust can generate the exemplary level of scholarly analysis captured within this book.”—Jeremy Musson, Art Newspaper"This is a richly absorbing book about one of the finest houses in the country." — John Bold, Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society "this volume is to be praised for its vision, scholarship and comprehensiveness" – Lisa White, Furniture History Society Newsletter“This ample, illustrated monograph has an elegiac quality, comprising a series of well-written essays by leading art historians on all aspects of a great building… a record of a unique national monument.”—John Martin Robinson, House & Garden -- John Martin Robinson * House & Garden *“This new study, comprising 20 chapters and several appendices by leading scholars in their respective fields, gives credit to the huge amount of scholarship that the house has already attracted, yet here builds a narrative of further subtle character.”—Maurice Howard, Apollo -- Maurice Howard * Apollo *“How welcome to have a major new assessment of architecture, furnishings and collection of this celebrated and vastly important house.”—John Goodall, Country Life -- John Goodall * Country Life *
£67.50
Yale University Press Gardens of Court and Country
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This is the book for which serious historians of garden history in this country have been waiting… the fruit of some four decades of both archival and on-the-ground research brought together in one magisterial work. The result is a triumph, and a publication that will remain a cornerstone of all future studies.”—Roy Strong, Country Life“The book’s illustrations are astonishing. . . . The integration of visual and textual evidence allows many insights and discoveries.” —Tom Turner, Garden History “While few of these high-maintenance gardens exist today, they are brought alive through contemporary engravings and Jacques’ text.”—Jane Owen, Financial Times“The kind of companion a coffee table dreams about supporting: a comprehensive survey of 17th-century English formal gardens . . . This ‘visual record’ will make readers long to explore those bygone forecourts, flower gardens, bowling greens, cascades, and more.”—Steve Gutierrez, British Heritage Travel“A landmark in Garden History studies.”—Georgina Craufurd, Hampshire Gardens Trust"Jacques’s book brings a new, heavily documented and informed treatment to a topic that, as he ends by acknowledging, "recognizes the contribution" of many disciplines to its expanded field of enquiry."—John Dixon Hunt, Historic Gardens Foundation May 2017‘The rewards are substantial for anyone interested in garden history or the wider aspects of social and political history.’ — Richard Bisgrove, The Garden, November 2017 ‘This volume includes 300 illustrations that bring lost and forgotten gardens back to life.’ — Listed Heritage 115, November 2017 Recommended as one of the three books for gardeners by Ruth Pavey in the Ham and High, 30 November 2017 ‘…a rich, scholarly and intriguing work’ — Ruth Pavey, Ham and High, 30 November 2017 ‘[the book] provides the reader with a concentrated picture of an extensive subject, bringing together both the wider view across England and the illuminating detail which brings the subject to life.’ — Marilyn Brown, The Pleasaunce Won the 2017 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title
£42.75
Yale University Press Central Leinster
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[T]his excellent volume...covers three counties, Kildare, Laois and Offaly, all on the western borderlands of the medieval English pale of settlement."—Simon Heffer, The Daily Telegraph“Like the best of Pevsner authors, Tierney understands the immutable bond between landscape from architecture. We learn of the ancient timber tracks across the bogs, the canal routes that linked Dublin with the Shannon, and the now rapidly vanishing concrete cooling towers of state-sponsored peat electricity generation – all part of an enmeshed entity of landscape and human endeavour that the author explores with great sensitively and vivid description” —Richard Butler, Rural History “Central Leinster is the fifth volume in the Ireland series and covers an area where many of the Ireland’s most rewarding and distinctive buildings are found” — Ger Scully, The Tribune “[An] essential addition to the library of anyone interested in the architecture of Ireland, should be compulsory reading for local planners and richly deserves a place in the glove compartment of motoring locals or visitors”—John Coleman, Ancient Monuments Society “[A]lmost every page yields at least one curiosity, whether it be the monumental pre-Catholic Emancipation mausoleum to the Grace family in Aries, County Laois, or an 18th-century brick eyecatcher called Pigeon House in Nurney, County Kildare.”—Robert O’Byrne, Apollo Magazine“In common with the other volumes, Central Leinster is a superb presentation of the formal architecture of the region…Those whose interest is formal architecture will relish this book.”—Barry O’Reilly, Vernacular ArchitectureShortlisted for the 2020 Colvin Prize by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain
£54.00
Yale University Press Spatial Orders Social Forms
Book SynopsisA fascinating look at modernist urban planning and spatial theories in Brazilian 20th-century art and architectureTrade Review“Spatial Orders, Social Forms is a much-needed account and reconsideration of the many important works, ideas, and social intentions of twentieth century Brazilian art, architecture, and space.”—Luis E. Carranza, author of Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology, and Utopia“Not only very original but also a very necessary, long overdue, and refreshing corrective of ingrained and perceived ideas about Brazilian modernism.”—Anna Indych-López, The Graduate Center & City College (CUNY)
£999.99
Yale University Press Garden at Monceau
Book SynopsisTrade Review“If there’s a Francophile in your midst, Carmontelle: Garden at Monceau might make a sound holiday gift.”—Adrian Higgins, Washington Post
£54.00
Yale University Press Kent Bloomer
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£23.75
Yale University Press Shivas Waterfront Temples
Book SynopsisThis handsomely illustrated volume explores the medieval Deccani temple complexes at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Pattadakal, with careful attention to their makers.Trade Review“Shiva’s Waterfront Temples raises important new questions at the cutting edge of Indian art historical research and explores them with impressive erudition, creativity, and thoughtful curiosity.”—Richard Davis, Bard College“Kaligotla’s compelling critique of the traditional, geography-based categories used to define Indian architecture allows for a better understanding of the ingenuity exhibited by medieval Decanni architects.”—Robert DeCaroli, George Mason University
£57.00
WW Norton & Co Gardens of Eden
Book SynopsisHistorical profiles of the major planned communities of early twentieth-century Long Island.Trade Review"Scholars of Long Island’s leading significance in American residential architecture will be very pleased with this important new contribution to regional housing history. . . . [E]xcellent work from the authors of this volume . . . . [T]he material is fresh, compact, interesting, and fills a significantly large gap in our understanding of how Long Island’s real estate projects of the early 20th century laid a mighty foundation for the rise of the post-World War II suburbs." -- Long Island History Journal"[A] beautifully descriptive book . . . Gardens of Eden is a page turner for the history buff, filled with classical pictures of the storied homes Long Island is known for." -- Long Island Weekly"[D]eserves ongoing mention as a top local reference gathering the work of architectural historians and local historians . . . . From museum developments and how properties were marked and divided to the early evolution of Long Island’s real estate community, Gardens of Eden packs in historical and social analysis in a presentation filled with social, political, economic, and architectural insights on choices made and their rationale. The result is a solid survey that’s highly recommended for any collection strong in New York state history." -- Midwest Book Review: California Bookwatch"[C]ompiled chapter by chapter by knowledgeable historians, an endeavor eight years in the making. . . Gardens of Eden is an interesting read for Port Washington residents and all Long Islanders." -- Port Washington News"Gardens of Eden makes a major contribution to our understanding of the development of residential architecture and community in America. The unique geography of Long Island, with its transit links to New York City, resulted in the creation of a series of extraordinary planned communities where developers, architects, and affluent home owners created a vision of American life in the country that would be closely linked with the city. We owe a great debt to the developers who planned these major garden communities, to the authors in this book who comprehensively analyze these communities, and to the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities for publishing this handsome volume." -- Andrew Scott Dolkart, Professor of Historic Preservation, Director of the Historic Preservation Program, Columbia University School of Architecture"For residents of metropolitan New York, Gardens of Eden provides the first detailed look at a key component of the area’s development, one that has had a profound and enduring effect on the landscape. For scholars of American urbanism, this book is an important case study that reveals the great extent of planned residential communities of the early twentieth century. Far from being rare exceptions, they represent a significant thrust in real estate endeavors that was transformative in its impact." -- Richard Longstreth, Professor of American Studies, George Washington University
£49.39
WW Norton & Co Voyage Le Corbusier
Book SynopsisFollowing the master architect’s drawing campaign as a young man.Trade Review"An enthralling selection of drawings from the sketchbooks of a young man falling in love with architecture." -- The Tablet
£26.59
John Wiley & Sons Inc Illustrated History of Landscape Design
Book SynopsisLandscape design history greatly influenced today's design process and design solutions. I llustrated History of Landscape Design provides an overview of landscape design, including the iconic spaces throughout the centuries, starting from landscapes in prehistory to current trends in landscape design.Trade Review"The authors have a created a visual treat sure to inspire and captivate any student of landscape design. Beautiful, abundant, precise drawings in concert with a more limited yet engaging text make this book unique. In a visual disclipine such as landscape design, such a novel approach is long overdue. This impressive work could serve as an outstanding textbook for landscape design students or as a useful reference for libraries. This significant, delightful, one-of-a kind work is sure to become a classic." (Choice, July 2010) "…an accessible and reliable source for students and the interest general reader." (BBC Gardens Illustrated, May 2010)Table of ContentsIntroduction xi Prehistory–6th Century 1 Cosmological Landscapes 2 Ancient Gardens 4 Landscape and Architecture 6 Genius Loci 8 6th–15th Centuries 15 Western Europe: Walled Minds, Walled Gardens 20 Moorish Spain: An Indelible Influence 28 China: Nature’s Splendor in a Garden 38 Japan: In the Spirit of Nature 46 15th Century 57 Japan: Muromachi Era 61 China: Ming Dynasty 65 Central Asia: Timurid Garden Cities 66 Italy: Curious Minds, Broadened Vistas 68 16th Century 75 Italy: The Rebirth of Rome 79 Renaissance Gardens in France and England 93 The Early Botanic Garden: An Encyclopedia of Plants 99 Early Mughal Gardens: Persian Art Forms Travel East 100 Japan: The Momoyama Era 101 17th Century 107 Japan: Edo Period 111 The Mughal Empire: Sacred Symmetries 119 Persian Gardens of Paradise 124 Italian Baroque Styles 127 The Flowering of the Dutch Landscape 133 English Gardens: A Restrained Mix of European Styles 134 French Classical Gardens: The Control of Nature 136 18th Century 147 England: The Development of the Landscape Garden 151 The Landscape Garden in France 164 China: Qianlong’s Imprint 165 Early American Gardens: Homeland Traditions 171 19th Century 177 England: The Victorians and Their Plants 181 France: Republics and Empires 186 Landscape Architecture in America 189 20th Century 203 The Gilded Age: Extremes of Wealth and Poverty 207 The New Aesthetic of Modernism 211 Environmental Art: Nature as Medium 219 Artistic Trends in Landscape Design 220 Environmental and Ecological Design 222 Postmodern Landscapes 223 21st Century 23 1 A Sustainable Earth: Ten Ideas 232 Endnotes 245 Bibliography 251 Index 255
£53.15
University of California Press Peter Selz
Book SynopsisA biography of Peter Selz that traces the journey of this Jewish-German immigrant from Hitler's Munich to the United States and on to an important career as a pioneer historian of modern art. It illuminates key historical and cultural events of the twentieth-century, describing Selz's extraordinary career.Trade Review"An intellectual bildungsroman recounting a life in art that never stopped evolving." Artillery "A paean to a man who is both vastly experienced and eternally youthful in his outlook." Huffington Post "Life is short, art is long, but sometimes it's the other way, too." San Francisco Chronicle "A fascinating account of an individual who has made many contributions to art history." Washington Ind Rev Of Bks "An enjoyable account of a man who seemed always to be in the right place at the right time with the right passions." Artnet Magazine "Like a moving still life... Peter Selz was a great subject, and Karstrom matched him with a great biography." -- Wayne Andersen European Legacy "An essential read for anyone seriously involved in the field." Whitehot Magazine "With Selz at the helm, the Berkeley Art Museum redefined many aspects of modern art and brought overdue attention to California artists." Berkeleyside "A captivating story... This Selz biography offers not only a study into the life of a renowned art figure but also an analysis of the art world of the twentieth century as a whole." -- Kate Sowada Oral History Review "California art enthusiasts and libraries will especially appreciate this detailed and well-researched, scholarly book." Library JournalTable of ContentsPreface: Setting the Scene 1. Childhood: Munich, Art, and Hitler 2. New York: Stieglitz, Rheingold, and 57th Street 3. Chicago to Pomona: New Bauhaus and Early Career 4. Back to New York: Inside MoMA 5. MoMA Exhibitions: From New Images of Man to Alberto Giacometti 6. POP Goes the Art World: Departure from New York 7. Berkeley: Politics, Funk, Sex, and Finances 8. Students, Colleagues, and Controversy 9. A Career in Retirement: Returning to Early Themes and Passions 10. A Conclusion: Looking at Kentridge and Warhol Notes Selected Bibliography and Exhibition History Acknowledgments Index
£18.90
University of California Press Into the Void Pacific
Book SynopsisExplores how buildings supported the cultural and political work of the fair and fashioned a second, parallel world in a moment of economic depression and international turmoil. This book looks closely at buildings as buildings, analyzing them in light of local circumstances, regionalist sensibilities, and national and international movements.Trade Review"Into the Void Pacific is rich with drawings, photographs, and passages from documents and correspondence by the fair's designers, visitors, and critics that document this fantasy-abetting architectural enterprise. Shanken re-creates the look and experience of the fair as it was at the time-which is helpful, since almost none of its buildings are standing today." BOOM: A Journal of California "This is a fine and thought-provoking study that puts the GGIE--and a cohort of California architects--into the broader scholarly conversation about architectural trends of the 1930s." Bulidings and LandscapesTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Digging for Treasure Island Chapter 2: Great Plots, Small Plans Chapter 3: Regionalism Unbounded: The Courts and Palaces Chapter 4: The Federal Building Chapter 5: California and the Pacific Chapter 6: The Pacific Area Chapter 7: A Room of Their Own: The Yerba Buena Club Conclusion Notes Works Cited Acknowledgments Holdings Related to the Golden Gate International Exposition in the Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley Index
£42.50
University of California Press In the Studio
Book SynopsisStudios are, at once, material environments and symbolic forms, sites of artistic creation and physical labor, and nodes in networks of resource circulation. They are architectural places that generate virtual spacesworlds built to build worlds. Yet, despite being icons of corporate identity, studios have faded into the background of critical discourse and into the margins of film and media history. In response, In the Studio demonstrates that when we foreground these worlds, we gain new insights into moving-image culture and the dynamics that quietly mark the worlds on our screens. Spanning the twentieth century and moving globally, this unique collection tells new stories about studio iconsPinewood, Cinecittà, Churubusco, and CBSas well as about the experimental workplaces of filmmakers and artists from Aleksandr Medvedkin to Charles and Ray Eames and Hollis Frampton. Trade Review“Consumers in the 1930s understood the importance of the studio; In the Studio argues that contemporary scholars of film and media studies should follow suit. The volume makes an important contribution to these disciplines, helping to advance a new subfield by showing how an emphasis on the material spaces of production expands or nuances our understanding of cinema and television.” * The Moving Image *"It is certain that In the Studio’s holistic methodology will provide a blueprint for the still vital research on the material environments that shape our media." * Screen *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Studio Perspectives Brian R. Jacobson PART ONE. FORMATIONS 1. “The Longed-For Crystal Palace”: Empire, Modernity, and Nikkatsu Mukōjima’s Glass Studio, 1913–1923 Diane Wei Lewis 2. Regulating Light, Interiors, and the National Image: Electrification and Studio Space in 1920s Brazil Rielle Navitski 3. Ephemeral Studios: Exhibiting Televisual Spaces during the Interwar Years Anne-Katrin Weber PART TWO. FOUNDATIONS 4. Estudios Churubusco: A Transnational Studio for a National Industry Laura Isabel Serna 5. Pinewood Studios, the Independent Frame, and Innovation Sarah Street 6. Backlots of the World War: Cinecittà, 1942–1950 Noa Steimatsky PART THREE. ALTERNATIVE ROUTES 7. The Film Train Stops at Mosfilm: Aleksandr Medvedkin and the Operative Film Factory Robert Bird 8. Postindustrial Studio Lifestyle: The Eameses in the Environment of 901 Justus Nieland 9. The Last Qualitative Scientist: Hollis Frampton and the Digital Arts Lab Jeff Menne PART FOUR. STUDIO FUTURES 10. Made-for-Broadcast Cities Lynn Spigel 11. The Nature of the Firm and the Nature of the Farm: Lucasfilm, the Campus, and the Contract J. D. Connor 12. “Make It What You Want It to Be”: Logistics, Labor, and Land Financialization via the Globalized Free Zone Studio Kay Dickinson Selected Bibliography List of Contributors Index
£27.00
University of California Press Gordon MattaClark Physical Poetics
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Examining the titles of Matta-Clark’s works, as well as private notebooks, aphoristic notecards, letters and loquacious statements he made to various interviewers, Richard—herself a poet—maps with obsessive precision the ways in which the artist’s language use frames and enlarges his artworks, many of which exist now only in the form of documentation. . . . Richard’s nimble exegesis of her subject and his language sets the stage for conjuring a vision of Matta-Clark working in the landscape." * Chicago Review of Books *"Richard conscientiously treats Matta-Clark's written word as another facet of his artistic production, which serves to contextualize and deepen an understanding of his short-lived career. Presenting these musings, complete with words crossed-out, spelling errors, arrows, and marginal notations from books, provides a conduit to Matta-Clark's archive and displays his playful use of language. This book is remarkable in its ability to systematically weave Matta-Clark's thought process with his artwork in a way that remains directly connected to the archives while still reading narratively. It would be an excellent resource for anyone interested in Matta-Clark and his milieu in the 1970s Soho art scene." * ARLIS/NA Reviews *"Richard's compelling and crystalline prose make it quite the page-turner. Reading it under lockdown during a pandemic has been a particularly thought-provoking experience. Physical Poetics exemplifies the kind of rigorous work that is difficult to achieve, so thorough is its analysis of the archival and the material evidence. It reads at once like a biography, an essay and an inventory; it is a Matta-Clark concordance, but much more thrilling than that sounds." * Burlington Magazine *"Richard authors an extensively researched and dense text that examines the archives of the artist, focussing predominantly on his prosaic texts and irreverent semantic aphorisms recorded on notecards. For any fan or interest in the artist, the book serves as part-analysis of the archive, with a nuanced insight into New York’s emerging contemporary art scene of the late 1960’s and early 70’s. However, the volume also works as semi-biographical, charting Matta-Clark’s tumultuous parentage and maturation, in a parallel to his works, interests, and backdrop of famous connections past, present, and future." * Visual Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction. CONFUSION GUIDED BY A CLEAR SENSE OF PURPOSE; or, a comet, which would have its tail in front PART ONE. TOTAL (SEMIOTIC) SYSTEM: READING GORDON MATTA-CLARK “Total (Semiotic) System” Walking and Reading WORKING AT SEVERAL DIMENTIONS “A step taken in the fog” “Kool Killer, or the Insurrection of Signs” PART TWO. ANARCHITECTURE AS POETIC DEVICE: GORDON MATTA-CLARK AND THE SOHO CONVERSATION Anarchitecture as Poetic Device “The Poetics of Psycho-Locus” AVAILABLE “Metaphoric Void”Arche and the Alpha Privative "Ambiguity Is All” Art World Prince BEST LATED WISHES Of Trees, Burial, Cooking, and Cannibalism “Another name more or less the same” Venn Diagram To THE MEETING and THE MOB (AGAIN) MAKING NOT SOLVING PROBLEMS The Irrational Village and the Non-u-ment Un-monumentalizing Conversation Monument, Non-u-ment, and Site/Non-site Smithson Coda: The IslandsQuadrille, Walls paper, et al.Fake Estates LAYERED REALITY, Thin Edge, and Space Between “Been Gone”: Notes on the Index Cut/Draw/WriteImmune versus Cancer Cells PART THREE. A SILENT FORCE: THE LEGACIES OF MATTA AND DUCHAMP DEMENTIONS “A Silent Force” Matta and Pajarito: “Psychological Morphology” and Réalité parallèle Noguchi “Jestures”Étant . . . Anartist and AnarchitectureInframince and Thin Edge Bullet Holes Phenomena of Infra- Readymade and Ready-to-be-unmade The Alchemical Pun PART FOUR. SPACISM: GORDON MATTA-CLARK AND THE POLITICAL “We chose to build a world of our own” “My understanding of art . . .” and THE JOY OF GETTING AWAY WITH IT SPACISM “I woundered who it is for . . .” Chile and the Bienal de São PauloWindow Blow-OutArc de Triomphe for WorkersA Resource Center and Environmental Youth Program for Loisaida THE VOYEURIST'S SPACE Violent Space, SECURITY MEASURES, and THE SIGN POST ANARCHIE The Money Photographs Cornell ’69 “Gordon Matta-Clark and Individualism” “A fine-tuned language and logic of the body” Conclusion. “WITHIN ABSURDITY THERE IS A FANTASTIC FREEDOM” Acknowledgments Abbreviations Notes List of Illustrations Index
£34.20
University of California Press Electrographic Architecture
Book SynopsisBridging histories of technology, media studies, and aesthetics, Electrographic Architecture forges a critical narrative of the ways in which illuminated light and color have played key roles in the formation of America's white imaginary. Carolyn L. Kane charts the rise of the country's urban advertisements, light empires, and neoclassical buildings in the early twentieth century; the midcentury construction of polychromatic electrographic spectacles; and their eclipse by informatically intense, invisible algorithms at the dawn of the new millennium. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and visual analysis, Electrographic Architecture shows how the development of America's electrographic surround runs parallel to a new paradigm of power, property, and possession.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Introduction: White like No Other 1. Synthetic White, 10,000 BC–1700 AD 2. Edison’s White Light Empire, 1750–1881 3. The “Great White Way,” 1880s–1910 4. Douglas Leigh’s Times Square Spectaculars, 1930–1960 5. The Young Electric Sign Company and Las Vegas Neon, 1920–1970 6. Jenny Holzer’s Light Art as Urban Critique, 1970–1990 Conclusion: Chromophobia in the Smart City, 1992–2022 Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£64.00
Harvard University Press Athens
Book SynopsisRevered as the birthplace of democracy, Athens is much more than an open-air museum filled with crumbling monuments to ancient glory. Athens takes readers on a journey from the classical city-state to today’s contemporary capital, revealing a world-famous metropolis that has been resurrected and redefined time and again.Trade ReviewMcGregor uses a chronological approach to paint a vivid and engaging portrait of the city and its inhabitants from the preclassical period to the development of Athens as a modern metropolis. McGregor pays the necessary tribute to the classical heritage, but he also sheds light on aspects of the Byzantine, Ottoman, and modern periods, and he deftly shows both the elements of continuity and the breaks with the past. The result is a well-deserved tribute to a great city. -- Jay Freeman * Booklist *McGregor describes the great city of Athens in solid detail as it spirals out from its core on the Acropolis. * Kirkus Reviews *McGregor…takes readers through centuries of Greek history, art, and architecture to provide both ‘a coherent narrative’ and a travel guide. * Publishers Weekly *What is remarkable about McGregor’s Athens is its uncanny clarity: not only the author’s eloquence in exploring an archaic, classical, Hellenistic, and modern Greek world but the wisdom that has gone into reconstructing that world from its first settlers to the vast and sprawling metropolis that is now contemporary Athens. McGregor has truly captured the pulse of the city. -- John Chioles, New York University and the University of Athens
£32.36
Harvard University Press Lost and Found
Book SynopsisFlorence’s iconic foundling home of the Innocenti is often taken as a symbol of Renaissance creativity, innovation, and humanity. The essays in Lost and Found explore new dimensions and contexts for foundling care at the Innocenti and use archival documents and digital tools to locate it architecturally, geographically, and socially.
£32.26
Harvard University Press San Lorenzo
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection illuminates many previously unexplored aspects of the Basilica of San Lorenzo’s history, extending from its Early Christian foundation to the modern era. San Lorenzo depicts this church as a living Florentine institution, continually reshaped by complex historical forces.Trade ReviewThe scholars go inside and out and from bottom to top, and they deal with the entire complex—the basilica’s architecture, paintings, and sculpture along with that in the sacristies, cloisters, library, Medici Chapel, and piazza—and they present its role in Florentine urbanism, culture, politics, and patronage; address liturgy, preaching, music, and its personnel and operations, even a kitchen sink, neglecting almost nothing. -- C. W. Westfall * Choice *
£67.16
Harvard University Press The Renaissance in the 19th Century
Book SynopsisThis volume examines the Italian Renaissance revival as a Pan-European critique: a reshaping of a nineteenth-century present that is perceived as deeply problematic. These essays recover the multidimensionality of the reaction to, transformation of, and commentary on the connections between the Italian Renaissance and nineteenth-century modernity.Trade ReviewThe collaborative, interdisciplinary, and international approach to the analysis of the Renaissance adopted by this study has produced an excellent volume. -- Fernanda Gallo * Journal of Modern History *
£32.26
Princeton University Press Magnificent Buildings Splendid Gardens
Book SynopsisMagnificent Buildings, Splendid Gardens returns to print some of the most important works of David Coffin, a leading authority on Renaissance architecture who, as one of the first scholars to apply the tools of art history to the study of gardens, became a founder of the discipline of garden and landscape studies. These essays span the wide range of Coffin''s work, from Italian Renaissance architecture, garden design, sculpture, and drawings to English gardens and landscape designers of the seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries. Coffin''s approaches are as varied as his subject matter. Some of these essays present the results of his archival research, including his discovery of crucial documents on the Emilian architect Giovan Battista Aleotti and the only documentary evidence identifying Vignola as the architect of the Villa Lante at Bagnaia. Other essays take a much broader cultural view, investigating, for example, the phenomenon of public access to privatTrade Review"This compendium of scholarly essays charts admirably David Coffin's remarkable and enviable ability to express simply, clearly and authoritatively the results of a lifetime's scrupulous and disciplined research."--Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, Burlington Magazine "Each essay, almost every paragraph, had the effect of inspiring the reader to follow it up with more research of their own."--Gillian Mawrey, Historic Gardens Review "The volume stands as witness to the accomplishments of this prolific scholar and reflects his many interests."--Claudia Lazzaro, Sitelines: A Journal of Place "We ... may ... praise the work of David Robbins Coffin in bringing aspects of Italian architecture and gardens, and instances of English gardens to wider attention. All scholars may wholeheartedly welcome this most useful volume, whose index is exemplary."--David H. Kennett, Sixteenth Century Journal
£36.00
Princeton University Press Architecture
Book SynopsisBy way of more than 2,000 years of architectural history, this illustrated book defines and shows the major components of the art - from theory, plans, and models to structural elements such as columns, arches, and domes, to materials and decorative elements.Trade Review"There's no shortage of architectural primers, but this one stands out for two reasons. First, the eye-popping clarity of the 325 photographs. Second, its refreshing breadth: There's a section on murals as well as metallic alloys, and the section on staircases includes a 1932 stadium ramp as well as the entrance to a 1528 chateau. More than a cheat sheet, it's a guide to be enjoyed."--John King, San Francisco Chronicle "This title combines the best of two art-book formats: it is filled with excellent color photographs that illustrate architectural forms, yet it is also the size of a field guide and can be held comfortably in the hand... Although this is not a standard reference book, it delights the eye with its juxtapositions, and could be the inspiration for a field trip to see these wonderful buildings."--V.E. Young, Choice "This is not merely a guidebook to the world of architecture... No reader can deny the densely illustrated nature of this book... The author has done her best to compile texts and images that are educational for undergraduate students. The book also presents an informative companion for readers who to visit buildings located in various regions and built in different historical periods."--Gevork Hartoonian, Architectural Science ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction 6 The Tools of the Architect 9 Stability and Form 55 Materials and Techniques 211 Architecture and Decoration 295 Masterpieces Compared 337 Glossary of Terms 374 Photographic Sources 378 Index of Topics 379 Index of Names and Places 380
£25.20
Princeton University Press Meaning in Motion
Book SynopsisTaking an approach to medieval art, this title reveals the importance of movement in the physical, emotional, and intellectual experience of art and architecture in the Middle Ages. It offers a collection of interdisciplinary essays that explores a range of rituals, performances, works of art, and texts in which movement is crucial to meaning.Trade Review"Brilliantly produced and abundantly illustrated... [This book is] invested in art's material, corporeal, spatial, and specifically kinetic dimensions."--David S. Areford, Oxford Art Journal
£49.30
Princeton University Press Princeton and the Gothic Revival
Book SynopsisInvestigates America's changing attitudes toward medieval art around the turn of the twentieth century through the lens of Princeton University and its role as a major patron of Gothic Revival art and architecture.Trade Review"This is a well-researched and richly-illustrated study of a pioneering glass manufacturer whose main years of production coincided with a formative phase in the history of American stained glass. Patriquin and Sloan have jointly organized their data in a commendably readable and attractive form."--Peter Cormack, Journal of Stained Glass
£999.99
Princeton University Press Histories of Ornament
Book SynopsisThis lavishly illustrated volume is the first major global history of ornament from the Middle Ages to today. Crossing historical and geographical boundaries in unprecedented ways and considering the role of ornament in both art and architecture, Histories of Ornament offers a nuanced examination that integrates medieval, Renaissance, baroque, andTrade Review"After its famous denunciation by Adolf Loos, ornament seemed a wasteful frivolity to most architects and designers. But that attitude has lost steam in recent years, as firms derive much of their revenue by building in places with a healthier regard for pattern and decoration. Right at the outset, this scholarly tome firmly establishes the vitality of architectural ornament today, leaving readers to peruse premodern histories after having shed their Loosian prejudice."--Metropolis "[A] handsome book."--Peter Parker, A Magazine for RIBA Friends of Architecture "[An] important volume ... seamlessly edited by Necipo?lu and Payne, [the book] covers an unprecedented and stringent collection of scholarly research and reflection. It is not a history of ornament per se, but rather a rigorous and sometimes cautionary record of the history of ornament's shifting meaning and theoretical basis. This volume assesses ornament as a legitimate aspect of designing the future built environment. It is neither elegy nor encyclopedia; the purpose instead is summed up simply in the editors' introduction as 'to address what ornament does [and did].' The result is a summons to surrender preconceived notions about ornament as somehow apart from or inferior to architecture in its full range of possible expression."--Paul Gunther, Architect's Newspaper "An exceptionally stimulating ... collection of essays on a topic that is certain to be of increasing importance to our discipline."--Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Journal of the Society of Architectural HistoriansTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Gulru Necipoglu and Alina Payne Part I Contemporaneity of Ornament in Architecture Chapter 1 Ornament and Its Users: From the Vitruvian Tradition to the Digital Age 10 Antoine Picon Chapter 2 A Natural History of Ornament 20 Vittoria Di Palma Chapter 3 Inscription: On the Surface of Exchange between Writing, Ornament, and Tectonic in Contemporary Architecture 34 Hashim Sarkis Part II Ornament between Historiography and Theory Chapter 4 Ornament as Weapon: Ballistics, Politics, and Architectural Adornment in Semper's Treatise on Ancient Projectiles 46 Spyros Papapetros Chapter 5 The Passage of the Other: Elements for a Redefinition of Ornament 62 Jonathan Hay Chapter 6 The Invention of Mudejar Art and the Viceregal Aesthetic Paradox: Notes on the Reception of Iberian Ornament in New Spain 70 Maria Judith Feliciano Chapter 7 The Flaw in the Carpet: Disjunctive Continuities and Riegl's Arabesque 82 Finbarr Barry Flood Part III Medieval Mediations Chapter 8 Vesting Walls, Displaying Structure, Crossing Cultures: Transmedial and Transmaterial Dynamics of Ornament 96 Gerhard Wolf Chapter 9 Gothic-Framed Byzantine Icons: Italianate Ornament in the Levant during the Late Middle Ages 106 Michele Bacci Chapter 10 Timurid Architectural Revetment in Central Asia, 1370-1430: The Mimeticism of Mosaic Faience 116 David J. Roxburgh Part IV Early Modern Crosscurrents Chapter 11 Early Modern Floral: The Agency of Ornament in Ottoman and Safavid Visual Cultures 132 Gulru Necipoglu Chapter 12 Ornamental Defacement and Protestant Iconoclasm 156 Christopher P. Heuer Chapter 13 Migration of Techniques: Inlaid Marble Floral Decoration in Baroque Naples 166 Daniela del Pesco Chapter 14 Innovation, Appropriation, and Representation: Mughal Architectural Ornament in the Eighteenth Century 178 Chanchal Dadlani Part V Ornament between Figuration and Abstraction Chapter 15 Ornament, Form, and Vision in Ceramics from Medieval Iran: Reflections of the Human Image 192 Oya Pancaroglu Chapter 16 Variety and Metamorphosis: Form and Meaning in the Ornament of Amico Aspertini 204 Marzia Faietti Chapter 17 Images as Objects: The Problem of Figural Ornament in Eighteenth-Century France 216 David Pullins Chapter 18 Ornament and Vice: The Foreign, the Mobile, and the Cocharelli Fragments 228 Anne Dunlop Chapter 19 Gilded Bodies and Brilliant Walls: Ornament in America before and after the European Conquest 238 Thomas B. F. Cummins Part VI Circulations and Translations of Ornament Chapter 20 The Poetics of Portability 250 Avinoam Shalem Chapter 21 "This Is Babel": Sicily, the Mediterranean Islands, and Southern Italy (1450-1550) 262 Marco Rosario Nobile Chapter 22 Wrapped in Fabric: Florentine Facades, Mediterranean Textiles, and A-TectonicOrnament in the Renaissance 274 Alina Payne Chapter 23 Threads of Ornament in the Style World of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries 290 Anna Contadini Part VII Internationalism of Ornament and Modernist Abstraction Chapter 24 The Currency of Ornament: Machine-Lathed Anticounterfeiting Patterns and the Portability of Value 308 Jennifer L. Roberts Chapter 25 Grammars of Ornament: Dematerialization and Embodiment from Owen Jones to Paul Klee 320 Remi Labrusse Chapter 26 Sober Ornament: Materiality and Luxury in German Modern Architecture and Design 334 Robin Schuldenfrei Acknowledgments 349 Notes 351 Bibliography 411 Contributors 443 Index 445 Photo Credits 453
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Princeton University Press The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright
Book SynopsisThis is the first book devoted to Frank Lloyd Wright's designs for remaking the modern city. Stunningly comprehensive, The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright presents a radically new interpretation of the architect's work and offers new and important perspectives on the history of modernism. Neil Levine places Wright's projects, produced over more thanTrade ReviewWinner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Architecture & Urban Planning, Association of American Publishers "In his bracing new book, The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright, Neil Levine affirms the genius appellation, but challenges the anti-urbanist label, examining seven sites of Wright's urban interventions... Some readers of Neil Levine's impressive book may conclude that since only a small portion of Wright's urban designing was actually realized, his work in this realm must be judged a failure. That is not the case; even when Wright's work survives only in words and drawings, they make significant contributions to our understanding of his achievement. This book, moreover, has another important dimension beyond Frank Lloyd Wright's own colossal career. It explores the history of cities and the urban situations that foster--and impede--the progress of architecture and its role in creating a better, healthier and more felicitous environment."-Thomas S. Hines, Times Literary Supplement "Levine ... strives valiantly to break Wright's partly vanguard, partly bonkers urban vision free from the tyranny of categorical misreading. This means contextualizing the nadir of Broadacre City within Wright's own musings on city planning, which nearly span the length of his career, beginning with his designs for a suburban compound at Oak Park, Chicago in the 1890s."--Samuel Medina, Metropolis "An authoritative study... The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright challenges the long-held assumption that Wright was an anti-urbanist, and Levine conveys a clear view of Wright seeking to improve the urban experience."--Gwyn Lloyd Jones, Architecture Today "Copiously illustrated with plans, maps, and photographs, this book sets forth a monument to one of the most prominent architects of the 20th century... A feast for the eyes and a font of information, this title belongs in all institutions that teach architecture."--Library Journal "This is a beautifully crafted study of Wright's place in the history of urbanism in the first half of the 20th century. Levine, professor of art and architecture history at Harvard, uses 'urbanism' to refer not just to cities but to projects for multiple owners, multiple architects, and built over time. He examines Wright's provocative ideas, ranging from a project in downtown Pittsburgh to the semi-rural plan of Broadacre City to a mixed-use scheme for Baghdad. The book, replete with sketches, drawings, plans, maps, and photographs from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, offers encyclopedic detail and density. Levine's exhaustive scholarship should make it required reading for practitioners and urban design students alike."--Craig Whittaker, Architectural Record "Frank Lloyd Wright made an indelible impression on 20th-century architecture with buildings such a Taliesin, Fallingwater, and New York's Guggenheim Museum... But what about his unrealized plans? Neil Levin's The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright ... explores some of the architect's most notable designs for cities--all but one of which was never erected... The full color drawings in Levine's book are intriguing renderings of what could have been."--Alina Cohen, Surface "Neil Levine's latest book offers a new, refreshing perspective on Wright... Levine resolutely maintains the reader's focus on Wright's work and genius by offering detailed and vivid descriptions of the journey underlying each of Wright's projects... The book is a treasure trove for every architect and aspiring architect, urbanist, engineer, infrastructure practitioner and inquisitive mind intrigued by the development of the relatively young field of city planning... This book will serve as essential reading for those seeking to carry forward that mission--improving urban planning through effective design."--Noor Bell, CityCity Magazine "The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright is a companion to Levine's landmark study The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, published in 1997, and it is as monumental as might be inferred from the 20-year wait."--Will Wiles, Apollo MagazineTable of ContentsPREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS X LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS XII INTRODUCTION XIV I: SUBURBS IN THE GRID: THE NEW STREETCAR CITY 1 WRIGHT'S FIRST URBAN DESIGN INITIATIVE: THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE ROBERTS BLOCK, 1896 3 2 THE QUADRUPLE BLOCK PLAN AS THE FRAMEWORK FOR THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL "HOME IN A PRAIRIE TOWN," 1900-1901 29 3 THE ROBERTS BLOCK REVISITED, 1903-4, THE CITY BEAUTIFUL, AND THE GARDEN CITY 48 4 THE QUADRUPLE BLOCK PLAN EXPANDED INTO AN ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHEME FOR THE CHICAGO CITY CLUB COMPETITION OF 1912-13 77 II: THE CITY IN QUESTION AT THE DAWN OF THE AUTOMOBILE AGE 5 CONGESTION AND ITS REMEDIES IN THE SKYSCRAPER CITY OF THE 1920s 119 6 DECENTRALIZATION VERSUS CENTRALIZATION: BROADACRE CITY'S RURALIST ALTERNATIVE TO LE CORBUSIER'S URBANISM, 1929-35 157 III: NEW VISIONS FOR THE CITY CENTER: URBANISM UNDER THE HEGEMONY OF THE AUTOMOBILE 7 A CIVIC CENTER MEGASTRUCTURE FOR THE LAKEFRONT OF MADISON, WISCONSIN, 1938 183 8 CRYSTAL CITY: A HIGHRISE, MIXED-USE, SUPERBLOCK DEVELOPMENT FOR WASHINGTON, D.C., 1940 222 9: THE POINT PARK CIVIC CENTER AND TRAFFIC INTERCHANGE FOR THE HEART OF DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH, 1947 261 10 PLAN FOR THE EXPANSION OF BAGHDAD ANCHORED BY A CULTURAL CENTER, 1957 334 CONCLUSION 385 NOTES 390 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 429 INDEX 436 CREDITS 446
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Princeton University Press Houses for a New World
Book SynopsisWhile the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, and their contemporaries frequently influences our ideas about house design at the midcentury, most Americans during this period lived in homes built by little-known builders who also served as developers of the communities. Often dismissed as "little boxes, made of ticky-tacky," the tract houseTrade ReviewWinner of the 2016 PROSE Award in Architecture & Urban Planning, Association of American Publishers Winner of the 2016 Historic Preservation Book Prize, University of Mary Washington's Center for Historic Preservation Winner of the 2015 Athenaeum Literary Award (for Art and Architecture), The Athenaeum of Philadelphia "In Houses for a New World, the Bryn Mawr professor emerita Barbara Miller Lane investigates the output of a dozen lesser-known tract house developers in four diverse regions--New England, the mid-Atlantic, the Midwest, and Southern California--and treats the period's typical Cape Cods, ranches, and split-levels with the serious formal analysis once reserved for high-style architecture... Her tour de force of research is all the more impressive because she has assembled documentation akin to that previously available on the residential work of important postwar figures such as Richard Neutra, William Wurster, and Marcel Breuer but largely overlooked for builders other than the Levitts."--Martin Filler, New York Review of Books "Lane uses original research, images, plans, and maps to illustrate the American suburb."--Shannon Sharpe, Metropolis "To her credit, Ms. Lane stoutly rebuts ... Slurs, encapsulated in the popular song about 'Little boxes made of ticky tacky' and shows that 'these generalizations were largely false'. Far from being the refuge of white middle-class 'Men in the Gray Flannel Suit,' their neurotic wives and delinquent children, and built by 'rapacious entrepreneurs, in the business of wringing the last penny out of substandard construction,' the houses were well-built and generously equipped and the developments by and large models of societal inclusiveness... [T]hey represent a lost golden age of opportunity."--Martin Rubin, Washington Times "Illuminating."--Anthony Paletta, The Daily Beast "The architecture profession has long criticized mass-produced housing in the suburbs for lacking artistic design and sophistication. Lane's book puts this argument in perspective... Readers seeking a historical overview of this unique era in American homebuilding should enjoy this book."--Katherine Salant, Urbanland "In her book Houses for a New World, architectural historian Barbara Miller Lane rises to the defense of these split levels of the past. Her arguments are compelling, in part because we look back with nostalgia to a time when the hardworking middle class could afford simple homes with mortgages that weren't made of empty promises."--Julie Michaels, ArchitectureBoston "This book presents a significant portion of the history of everyday American life in a manner that is deeply researched, intuitive, insightful, and frequently self-referential. It is copiously illustrated with contemporary photographs and images derived from developers' sales brochures and popular housing literature."--ChoiceTable of ContentsA Personal Note vii Acknowledgments ix PROLOGUE Paraphrases of Original Buyers' Recollections 1 CHAPTER 1 New Houses and New Communities 3 CHAPTER 2 West Coast Builders: Los Angeles and Orange County 47 CHAPTER 3 East Coast Builders: Philadelphia and Boston 93 CHAPTER 4 The Builders of Chicago's Golden Corridor: Midwestern Ranches and Splits 139 CHAPTER 5 The Buyers, Their Backgrounds, and Their Preferences 187 CHAPTER 6 Conclusion: Houses and Suburbs Transformed 221 Appendix 1. Chronological List of Campanelli Developments, Massachusetts and Rhode Island 233 Appendix 2. Stoltzner Business History 234 Appendix 3. Interviews with Original Buyers or Their Children 235 Abbreviations 244 Notes 244 Bibliography 273 Illustration Credits 295 Index 296
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Princeton University Press The Power of Place
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Rollason's dazzling treasury of site descriptions and pictures is the product of years of exploration, on-site and in libraries... A well-guided and meticulously illustrated tour, of a good selection of medieval Europe's most striking palatial monuments."--Alexander Murray, Times Literary Supplement "A grand tour, without hassle of airports, passports, or buses, of a sophisticated selection of medieval Europe's most renowned and important monuments; a tour conducted by a well-read guide, whose language is invariably clear, and is rendered more vivid and instructive by its cortege of carefully placed and labelled illustrations."--Alexander Murray, Times Literary Supplement "This lavishly produced text, encyclopedic in its scope and bibliography, examines the representations of the power of the ruler in buildings, landscapes, and events of continental Europe from the Roman period to the early modern era. Rollason links the forms of palaces, their surrounding lands, cities, sacred items and spaces, and places of enthronement and burial to ideological and personal power, illustrating each point with cases ranging from Tara to Constantinople, Muslim Granada to the Gothic north."--ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface xix Chapter 1 Introduction 1 Part I Palaces 9 Chapter 2 The Power of Design 11 Chapter 3 The Power of Architectural Style and Decoration 59 Part II Landscapes 99 Chapter 4 Gardens, Parks, and Power 102 Chapter 5 The Power of Forests and the Hunt 136 Part III Cities 169 Chapter 6 Cities, Planning, and Power 171 Chapter 7 Triumphs and Entries: The City as Stage Set 202 Part IV Holy Places 241 Chapter 8 Power, Place, and Relics 242 Chapter 9 Churches, Mosques, and Power 273 Part V Inauguration Places and Burial Places 319 Chapter 10 The Inauguration of Rulers: Places and Rituals 320 Chapter 11 Death and Power: The Burial Places of Rulers 344 Chapter 12 Conclusion 387 Research and Reading 391 References 417 Illustration Credits 449 Index 451 Color plates follow page 168.
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Princeton University Press Trophies of Victory Public Building in Periklean
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In sum, this book is a valuable addition to the history of scholarship on Athenian public architecture in the second half of the 5th century. The study's scope and detail are impressive. Trophies of Victory will no doubt serve as a vital resource because of its thorough examination in a single volume of a wide array of varied evidence related to these very well-known structures."---Wendy E. Closterman, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface xvii Bibliographic Abbreviations xix Chapter 1 Introduction 1 Chapter 2 The Development of the Periklean Program 13 Chapter 3 The Builders of the Parthenon 41 Chapter 4 The Parthenon 79 Chapter 5 The Hephaisteion 137 Chapter 6 The Telesterion at Eleusis 161 Chapter 7 The Odeion 197 Chapter 8 Temples in the Countryside 229 Chapter 9 The Propylaia 273 Chapter 10 Two Ionic Temples 329 Chapter 11 The Periklean Legacy 359 Endnotes 393 Epigraphical Appendix 405 Chronological Table 429 Bibliography 431 Subject Index 455 Index Locorum 467
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Princeton University Press City of Refuge
Book SynopsisThe vision of Utopia obsessed the nineteenth-century mind, shaping art, literature, and especially town planning. In City of Refuge, Michael Lewis takes readers across centuries and continents to show how Utopian town planning produced a distinctive type of settlement characterized by its square plan, collective ownership of properties, and communaTrade Review"Few architectural historians today have Michael Lewis's skill and fluency in the language of built stuff. Precise, elegant descriptions of buildings and their elements, grounded in rigorous scholarship and motivated by the author’s obvious passion for his subject, make City of Refuge a pleasure to read. . . . This is a beautifully made book."---Kathy Edwards, ARLIS"Lewis's elegantly composed and lavishly illustrated work helps us to understand more clearly the how and why of these early modern utopian experiments, and . . . offers a reminder of historic communal values that seem to have little influence in contemporary culture."---Christopher Silver, Indiana Magazine of History"A timely contribution. . . . Lewis demonstrates convincingly how inspired groups linked urban form and community ideals in practice. . . . Elegantly composed and lavishly illustrated."---Christopher Silver, Indiana Journal of History"Impressive and fascinating. . . . Lewis treats us to not only a multifaceted history of the ideal city from fifteenth-century Italy to nineteenth century America, but has fashioned a thoroughly enjoyable and often-entertaining journey along the way. The book is exceptionally well written, and sumptuously illustrated. . . [A]n important contribution to our understanding of the evolution of the modern landscape, City of Refuge should be of interest to scholars of the history of architecture and city planning, as well those involved in religious, cultural, and intellectual studies."---Kenneth A. Breisch, Rennaissance Quarterly"Lewis offers a great deal that is original and often provocative."---Carl Abbott, Buildings & Landscapes"“Although it should have a place in every collection on cultural studies and architectural history, City of Refuge is too well researched, too elegantly written and too beautifully illustrated to be confined to a library shelf. It wants to be read, and read it should be. It reflects historic interests and informs current debate. Students and scholars of various disciplines alike—from utopian studies to urban design—will find it accessible, lucid, and very rewarding.”"---Jan Frohburg, Irish Journal of American Studies"A fascinating exploration of the synthesis of societal forces and architectural forms that created the utopian communities in the United States."---Ralph Muldrow, Sacred Architecture JournalTable of Contents1 The Idea of the City of Refuge 9 2 The Sacred Squareness of Cities 19 3 The Protestant Tempering of Utopia 33 4 Christianopolis 57 5 The Lord's Grove 95 6 Harmony 131 7 Economy 169 8 Conclusion 203 Notes 219 Selected Bibliography 239 Index 243 Illustration Credits 249 Acknowledgments 253
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Princeton University Press Designing San Francisco
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award for Architecture & Urban Planning, Association of American Publishers""Isenberg, a professor of history at Princeton University, dug deep to capture the transitional years when the city's establishment was on the verge of being altered by cultural forces that it could not control. . . . [Designing San Francisco] deepens our understanding of how today’s landscape came to be—and the bullets we dodged along the way."---John King, San Francisco Chronicle"Designing San Francisco is an outstanding contribution to the growing literature on the City by the Bay, and is indeed one of the finest books in recent memory about American city building in the postwar period."---Ocean Howell, American Historical Review"The urban historian Alison Isenberg’s Designing San Francisco is, among its many other virtues, a vital text for helping landscape architects think through this dilemma. . . . Isenberg is a clear and engaging writer who is both transparent and persuasive in presenting her own angle on the story. . . . Designing San Francisco is a vital critique of the standard narrative of design authorship."---Justin Parscher, Landscape Architecture Magazine"In Designing San Francisco: Art, Land, and Urban Renewal in the City by the Bay, the historian Alison Isenberg points to a shift around this time in the way San Francisco practiced its urban renewal. Instead of being designed from on high, in the style of Robert Moses in New York, the postwar city grew largely through collaborative planning. This didn’t mean that messy neighborhoods were left alone to find their internal order (as in Jane Jacobs’s preservationist ideal) but that artists, property managers, activists, and others all got involved."---Nathan Heller, The New Yorker
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Princeton University Press Luxury and Modernism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the WCGS Book Prize, Waterloo Centre for German Studies""A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""Robin Schuldenfrei’s smart and suggestive book Luxury and Modernism: Architecture and the Object in Germany 1900-1933 runs against the grain of what we would like to believe about our own aesthetic preferences, so often enshrined in our social formation, including in the professional education of architects. . . . Schuldenfrei’s book is likely to spur further insights into the degree to which the dissemination of Neues Bauen internationally was more closely tied to fashion than previous scholars have chosen to admit. At the same time, it may also help liberate us to create an architecture of true equality, something the Modern Movement seldom truly offered."---Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Architectural Review"In Luxury and Modernism, Robin Schuldenfrei punctures the idealistic, lofty, socialist rhetoric of the Bauhaus’s artist-craftsmen. The Bauhaus, she reveals, imposed an elitist, aristocratic notion of taste on the masses, who largely didn’t want it."---Christopher Turner, Apollo"Highly recommended."---L.E. Carranza, Choice"Schuldenfrei carefully analyses a key aspect of Modernism’s embrace of abstraction that has confounded previous historians. . . . By exposing through the notion of luxury the paradox of Modernism, Schuldenfrei has made an important contribution to Bauhaus scholarship. This learned, original, counterintuitive, unorthodox and occasionally witty book could not have been published at a more appropriate moment."---Ines Weizman, Burlington Magazine"In Luxury and Modernism, Schuldenfrei confronts the longstanding issue of modern architecture’s elitism, going to the heart of the canon and building up evidence in varied case studies."---Ani Kodzhabasheva, Architectural Histories"Schuldenfrei’s Luxury and Modernism provides a model for a materially grounded, critically reflective and argument-driven reassessment of a canonical field."---Deborah Lewer, Art History"Robin Schuldenfrei revisits the inconsistencies between modernism’s rhetoric and its accomplishments, offering a generous reassessment of its proponents’ proclivity for luxury . . . . Luxury and Modernism presents eloquent, well-researched, and courageous scholarship . . . . With her major contribution, Robin Schuldenfrei has given us much to reconsider."---Leslie Van Duzer, Journal of Architectural Education"Considering modernism as luxury enables Schuldenfrei to investigate German modernism’s material manifestations, but also its broader social, cultural, and economic implications on fresh terms. The book’s introduction, presenting key issues in original yet accessible ways, and confronting modernism’s compelling rhetoric with its less-known, more-conflicted lived realities, should be a required text for graduate courses on modern design, architecture, and related topics. . . . Between its creamy cotton covers, Luxury and Modernism gathers, synthesizes, and further problematizes many critical reassessments of modernism."---Freyja Hartzell, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
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Princeton University Press Plaster Monuments
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the 2018 DAM Architectural Book Award, Deutsches Architekturmuseum""An excellent book . . . about the desire on the part of nineteenth-century museums to collect reproductions at least as much as originals in order to demonstrate the history of art in as systematic and comprehensive way as possible [and] illustrated with wonderful images of cast collections."---Charles Saumarez Smith"It is timely amid new contexts for preservation and when reproduction technologies are advancing, that Lending’s analysis reveals the significance of their plaster precursors."---Olivia Horsfall Turner, Apollo"This is a marvellous book, an original contribution to our understanding of how plaster casts of sculpture and architectural elements were manufactured and displayed in museums throughout Europe and America, which makes important points concerning their cultural, political, educational and philosophical significance."---James Stevens Curl, Times Higher Education"As Lending argues, the plaster monument was a part of the separation of originals and copies in the nineteenth century, a topic that continues into the twenty-first century. . . . Despite new media, technical methods and intellectual frameworks, the cast monument remains a key part of our cultural context and our interaction with the past."---Matthew Wells, Burlington Magazine"The first history of the rise and fall of architectural casts. . . . Invaluable for students of museum history, not least for its excellent illustrations."---James Hall, The Art Newspaper"There is much to learn from this rich study—how buildings and their representations always form a strange symbiosis, the ways we encounter architecture, and how monuments are always in flux. . . . [The book] is superbly illustrated, including archival documents and evocative photographs of cast galleries as they originally appeared."---Lisa Godson, Journal of Design History"Lending weaves a vast scholarship around the objects at hand. . . . Plaster Monuments must be read cover to cover lest the reader risk missing brilliant insights offered in the most unexpected places."---Can Bilsel, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians"With impeccable scholarship and a sure sense of narrative, Mari Lending embarks her reader on a fascinating exploration of what these casts, once considered as precious and certainly expensive to produce, represented for their 19th-century sponsors. . . . Starting from an inquiry into a long-lost practice, Plaster Monuments: Architecture and the Power of Reproduction achieves much more than making its reader aware of what once was. It triggers important questions about architecture both as a discipline and as a mediated presence."---Antoine Picon, Architecture Histories"[A] fascinating exploration. . . . Lending’s evocative prose is accompanied by numerous well- chosen illustrations, many previously unpublished. These images, together with her exciting archival discoveries and rich interpretation, make a compelling argument for “the power of reproduction” to shape our understanding of buildings. Plaster Monuments is a welcome reminder that the auratic value of the monument’s absolute originality is as much a fiction as the idea of its unlimited, transparent reproducibility. The book also serves as a timely invitation to consider the contemporary forms of technical mediation without which our own discourses of architectural history and preservation would be unthinkable."---Joseph L. Clarke, Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation, History, Theory, and Criticism
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Princeton University Press Moscow Monumental
Book Synopsis"An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraper"--Trade Review"Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize""Shortlisted for the Best Book in Cultural Studies Prize, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages""One of Foreign Affairs' Best Books""Honorable Mention for the Alexander Nove Prize, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies""Impressive detail"---Anthony Paletta, Literary Review"Zubovich has done stellar work in the city’s archives, uncovering a trove of letters and petitions from ordinary Soviet citizens. . . This is a book which delves into the very human tensions created by a society forced into transition, and the effects on a city undergoing a seismic political, cultural, and architectural change."---Jennifer Eremeeva, The Moscow Times"A superb, sweeping account of the realization of a magnificent group of skyscrapers. Grounded in meticulous archival research, and highly readable, it will appeal to specialists and general readers alike interested in topics as wide ranging as Soviet-US relations, architecture, intellectuals, and everyday life under Stalin."---Christine Varga-Harris, American Historical Review"Russian and Soviet urban history has expanded and developed greatly in the last two decades by drawing attention to the built environment, lived experience, and aesthetic choices and meanings of buildings. In Katherine Zubovich’s Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin’s Capital we have an example of some of the best trends in recent years."---Karl Qualls, Russian Review"Drawing on extensive archival research, the book delineates an arc from early conceptualization of Moscow as the capital of Soviet Russia to infighting leading to the demise of monumentality as a dominant force in Soviet architecture during the 1950s. ... Recommended." * Choice *"Well researched and lucidly written, Moscow Monumental is a welcome contribution to the field of urban history. It will be a good addition to the reading lists for university courses on Russian social and cultural history. It will also be much appreciated by lovers of Russian history outside academe."---Elena V. Baraban, Ab Imperio Quarterly "A monumental story, pun intended. . . .Readers will find this highly refreshing."---Heather D. DeHaan, Contemporary European History"Zubovich gives us what the archives (and page limits) allow: a rich and thoughtful story of the ambition and contradiction that characterized the Soviet effort to create a lived utopia."---Diane P. Koenker, Journal of Modern History
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Princeton University Press Ugliness and Judgment
Book SynopsisTrade Review"As Hyde eloquently demonstrates in a compelling trajectory that arcs from Stonehenge to modern London, ugliness is more than a physical trait or quality assigned to an object. It has acted as a site and catalyst for debate on broader social circumstances."---Catherine Slessor, The Guardian"This book is a welcome break from good taste. . . . If you have ever wondered why a certain building seems ugly, this book will help you understand why you feel that way."---Lucy Watson, Financial Times"Hyde’s book confronts ugliness head on, using it as a way to interrogate British architectural discourse. . . . [His] research on the individual case studies is impeccable."---Richard J. Williams, Times Higher Education"The great achievement of this book is to show that, even if the language and opinions about taste change, debates about architecture have always had some common features. They are never just about buildings."---William Whyte, Church Times"Discussions such as those effectively summarised in Ugliness and Judgement are so instructive when we evaluate how to apply concepts of beauty and ugliness in architectural debates."---Alexander Adams, Salisbury Review"A fascinating book. In taking as a point of departure the limitations of aesthetics, Hyde invites readers to understand the assessment of aesthetic failure as a wedge that pries open conversations about inadequate, unresolved, or unsatisfying social and legal arrangements. Ugliness, in his telling, points to gaps in social, regulatory, urban, and institutional fabrics. The author implies that the value of listening to complaints about buildings lies in discerning the issues that encounters with 'ugly' buildings bring to the fore."---Kathryn O’Rourke, Rice Design Alliance"To call out ugliness, then, is a call to arms. While beauty basks lazily and uselessly in its own perfection, ugliness spurs us into action."---Igor Toronyi-Lalic, The Spectator
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Princeton University Press Watermarks
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title in Fine Arts""One cannot help admiring how, through her own fertile processes of thought and analogy, Geddes mirrors the astonishing liveliness of Leonardo’s creative imagination."---Francis Ames-Lewis, Burlington Magazine"Compelling. . . . an exciting addition to the new field of the environmental humanities." * Choice *"A timely invitation to a close reading of Leonardo’s drawings, not as a purely artistic medium but also as a versatile means of engaging with nature."---Anatole Tchikine, Renaissance Quarterly
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Princeton University Press Foundations
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion, Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain""Winner of the Historians of British Art Book Prize, Contemporary Subject""[A] brilliant new history. . . . A highly convincing book, with the sort of clarity and panoramic scope that is too often, in books on this subject, lost in architectural and decorative minutiae."---Owen Hatherley, Tribune Magazine"Elegantly written. . . . [A] timely contribution."---Alistair Fair, Architectural History"An academic modernist sees opportunity in disruption."---John Gapper, Financial Times"[A] scintillating and thoroughly engaging book, which rightly urges us to pay closer attention to the built environment in our understanding of how modern Britain came to be."---Phil Child, Journal of Contemporary History"Foundations is a fascinating contribution . . . illuminating fluently and engagingly the still-hidden history of the mundane spaces that Britons have inherited, many of which they continue to inhabit."---Simon Gunn, Journal of British Studies"An excellent book. It is deeply researched, thoughtfully argued, and beautifully written."---Erika Hanna, American Historical Review
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Princeton University Press Hitlers Northern Utopia Building the New Order
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Spiro Kostof Book Award, Society of Architectural Historians""Shortlisted for the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Association""Azure Magazine's Gift Guide: Seven Books for Distanced Design Lovers""Drawing from a staggering trove of archival letters, maps, plans and diaries, Stratigakos’s Hitler’s Northern Utopia gracefully juxtaposes the oppressor’s dream with Norway’s brutal reality as she examines the country’s occupation and the labor force that worked on building the Nazi fantasy state that never was."---Lucy Tiven, Washington Post"As well as being a fascinating account of an unfamiliar but important aspect of the Second World War, this book is an exemplary model of scholarship. . . . It is a remarkable achievement, compelling in its originality and fascination, and a vital addition to the huge literature on the most horrific war in modern history."---Simon Heffer, The Telegraph"A fascinating archival study, Hitler’s Northern Utopia is the result of meticulous sleuthing through newspapers and old documents written in three different languages."---Johanne Elster Hanson, Times Literary Supplement"Among a younger generation of scholars unafraid to confront such once-taboo material, none has surpassed Despina Stratigakos. . . . In her latest book, Hitler’s Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway, Stratigakos . . . demonstrates a keen understanding of how Hitler’s perversion of architecture reflected that thwarted master builder’s ideological values, even beyond the German fatherland. Not the least of the surprises in this admirable but unsettling new study is that among the twenty or so countries subjugated in whole or in part by the Nazis, Norway was unique because Germany spent more on development there than it extracted in booty."---Martin Filler, New York Review of Books"If you thought (as I did) that, 75 years on from Hitler's death, there could surely be nothing new to learn about him, then this book by U.S. architectural historian Despina Stratigakos is an eye-opener."---Tony Rennell, Daily Mail"Unusual and provocative. . . . A special strength of the book is Stratigakos's attention to the fate of POWs—some Serbian, but mostly Russian. . . . Norwegian historians are coming to terms with both the occupation and their country's response in the 1950s and 60s. Hitler's Northern Utopia should be high on their must-read list. Nor will non-specialist readers be disappointed in it."---Jonathan Beard, Michigan War Studies Review"Architectural historian Despina Stratigakos mines a little-known chapter in 20th century history with insight, clarity and encyclopedic rigour. From the vision to re-fashion Trondheim into a new cultural capital to the scheme for an imposing super-highway linking the new city to Berlin, the book chronicles a darkly fascinating saga. It’s a chilling vision of the world as it could have been — and a reminder of architecture’s role in creating it." * Azure Magazine *"The reader gets an enormous amount of information about Norway in this beautiful and well-written book. Professor Stratigakos deserves much gratitude for a book which combines clear-headed precision and richness of detail with an understanding for the human cost of history."---Lars Baerentzen, Krigshistorisk Tidsskrift"Despina Stratigakos’s book compellingly engages with a lesser-known aspect of Nazi planning and spatial logistics – the occupation of Norway. . . . With skilful narration Stratigakos propels the reader from Hitler’s 1934 visit to the Norwegian fjords towards the 1940 German invasion. . . . The book is an accessible yet multidimensional assessment of space and ideology, wrapped up in a rich narrative of archival materials. Despina Stratigakos undoubtedly contributes to studies of landscape and memory."---Tereza E. Valny, History: Journal of the Historical Association"[A] fascinating new study. ... Highly recommended."" * Choice *"We all remember the image: a would-be Viking 'shaman' clad in horns, fur, feathers, and Norse tattoos storming the U.S. Capitol on 6 January 2021. Hundreds of White supremacists waving Confederate flags and brandishing Nazi insignia joined him in attempting to hunt down legislators in an effort to halt the certification of the results of the 2020 presidential election. In her riveting new study Hitler’s Northern Utopia, Despina Stratigakos takes us beyond the noxious theatrics of the Capitol insurrection to the horrifying reality of policies and plans imagined and partly realized by the regime of Adolf Hitler as it too indulged fantasies of connection to the Nordic past."---Barbara McCloskey, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians"“Hitler’s Northern Utopia provides an original and fascinating perspective on a lesser-known aspect of the Third Reich’s vision to create a thousand-year empire during the Second World War. Lavishly illustrated with black-and-white photos that effectively accompany its lively prose, Hitler’s Northern Utopia presents a unique view of Germany’s attempt to incorporate a neighbor with which it shared deep-rooted racial and social ties. The book’s accessibility and unique perspective from an architectural historian will no doubt be of interest to students of World War II, the Third Reich, the history of its occupied countries, and the use of art and architecture as instruments of the state.”"---Mark Montesclaros, H-Net"Well-written, assiduously researched. . . . A fascinating case study, based on original documents." * Journal of Modern History *"Thorough and informed."---Alexander Adams, Alexander Adams Art
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Princeton University Press The Closet
Book SynopsisA literary and cultural history of the intimate space of the eighteenth-century closet-and how it fired the imaginations of Pepys, Sterne, Swift, and so many other writers Long before it was a hidden storage space or a metaphor for queer and trans shame, the closet was one of the most charged settings in English architecture. This private roomTrade Review"Finalist for the Mavis Gallant Award for Non-Fiction, Quebec Writers’ Federation""The Closet is a major accomplishment that promises to be the definitive word on its subject."---Beth Kowaleski Wallace, Eighteenth-Century Studies"Bobker’s study succeeds in illuminating a fascinating topic with a wealth of detail pulled from various disciplines. . . it also shows the way monographs may go beyond a reconstruction of the past to include examining what this version of the past means for the present."---Rachel Ramsey, Eighteenth-Century Fiction"Providing a careful look at 18th-century historical and fictional texts, Bobker expands contemporary and commonplace ideas of the closet, its early use, and how it was initially developed. . . . Recommended." * Choice Reviews *"[This book] is a kind of cabinet of curiosities in itself, a curated collection to delight, educate and intrigue the reader and including in its wide scope both architectural and social history, queer theory and classic English literature."---Sue Nicholson, pepysdiary.com"Smart, enjoyable, and ground-breaking."---Mary Peace, ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
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Princeton University Press A Wonder to Behold Craftsmanship and the
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Princeton University Press When Eero Met His Match
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Fast Company Best Design Book of the Year""Hagberg’s book is bold and original, both in subject matter and structure. The author’s investment in the entanglement of love and professional drive, of language and form, does not fight for the inclusion of Aline Louchheim Saarinen in the existing canon but rather builds a new category all its own."---Mariana Janowicz, New York Review of Architecture"Hagberg gives the discreet and specialised world of the architectural publicist an aura of romance and intrigue. Though its task is confined, When Eero Met His Match is an expansive, candid, insightful and oddly sexy book. As a tribute to Louchheim, it is impressive; as a portrait of an overlooked profession, it is revealing, funny and moving."---Will Wiles, Apollo Magazine"A unique piece of media criticism. . . . [Hagberg] shines a light on the deep connection between words and visuals, media and memory, and how our experiences of the built world are filtered through the stories being told to us."---Jarrett Fuller, Fast Company"Combining biography, history, personal narrative, and cultural criticism, and sweetened with a dash of epistolary romance, When Eero Met His Match brings Louchheim — and an entire branch of architectural practice and production — out of the shadows."---Sophia Stewart, Hyperallergic"Hagberg’s exploration of their relationship foregrounds the woman whose powerful mythmaking created the lasting impression of Saarinen’s singular creative genius."---Sarah Holder, City Lab"[An] important book."---John J. Parman, Arcade Magazine"When Eero Met His Match dives into the rarely seen lives of those behind the curtain of newspaper clippings and magazine articles. Part historical account, part personal memoir, Eva Hagberg's latest book unpacks the often secret and sometimes omniscient world of architectural publicity."---Kate Mazade, Madame Architect"[An] unconventional biography. . . . the book’s true intellectual centre is the exploration of how architectural form is translated into — and shaped by — the stories we tell. . . . An accessible, elegant and exquisitely polymathic meditation on a complicated subject."---Stefan Novakovic, Azure Magazine"When Eero Met His Match is at once a personal journey for its author as it is an impeccably researched reconstruction of two important figures in modern architecture, sure to appeal to architects, students, and architectural historians alike."---Sean Ruthen, Spacing National"[An] excellent book. . . . Hagberg . . . uses When Eero Met His Match to correct the diminished role attributed to Aline in Eero's career, as portrayed in articles at the time but also in monographs published decades later."---John Hill, A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books"It is a fascinating behind-the-scenes exposé of the relationship between architectural practice and the media which exploded after the war and continues to form the basis of how architecture works today. It’s also about fame, ambition, insecurity, love and lust (it would make a terrific movie)."---Stephen Parnell, RIBA Journal
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Princeton University Press Visualizing Dunhuang
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Bei Shan Tang Catalogue Prize, Association for Asian Studies""Spectacular. . . . Impressive [and] important. . . . The nine volumes deliver brilliantly on the promise to assist the reader in visualizing Dunhuang and invite further research."---Sarah E. Fraser, Archives of Asian Art
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Princeton University Press Alloys
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year"
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Princeton University Press The Eternal Present Volume II
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Giedion] relates the great monuments that greet us at the outset with the great spaces of the Aurignacian caves and with the ancient cult of the animal treated as a sacred object. One of his most original intuitions is that ‘the religious structure of the first high civilizations was founded upon the discovery of the human form and the human face’ and the appreciation of the naked body."---Lewis Mumford, The New Yorker"[Giedion’s] long preoccupation with what it feels like to frequent spaces controlled by the buildings of men permits him to illuminate data long familiar. We have stared for years at drawings of Greek temples without realizing the meaning of the fact that they were not buildings to go into. These windowless cells surrounded by stone columns were the focal points of ceremonious processions, for if the gods no longer wandered the people did, on ritual visits to majestic images."---Hugh Kenner, National Review"Giedion’s vision dominates the entire book: it is so absolute and conclusive that the book emerges as a general philosophy rather than mere architectural history."---Paul Zucker, Progressive Architecture"Eloquent."---John Canaday, New York Times Book Review
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Cornell University Press The Empire State Building The Making of a
Book SynopsisA landmark book on one of the world’s most notable landmarks.Trade ReviewThe Empire State Building is a methodically researched, richly informative account of the raising of the world's most famous skyscraper. * Chicago Tribune *A building that is a movie star unto itself deserves a writer of such contagious enthusiasm as Tauranac. This book is a fascinating, self-propelling, and definitive history of the building. * Booklist *Although the Empire State Building is no longer the tallest building in the world (or even in New York City), it remains mythical, iconic. This entrancing book is at once an appreciation of the structure as a practical work of art and an exploration of the building's role in the city and the world. * New Yorker *Tauranac combines fine scholarship with a storyteller's gift for entertainment. The Empire State Building is a basic reference on twentieth-century architecture and urban development. * Journal of American History *Tauranac knows the architecture and buildings of New York as few do. He takes us through the story of the skyscraper as a form, the zoning that emerged to control the tall buildings, the real-estate boom of the twenties, the history of the site, the careers of John J. Raskob and Al Smith and the architects and builders who designed and erected the building, and the building's subsequent career. * New York Times Book Review *Tauranac's book is a vivid characterization of the skyscraper as romantic phenomenon. As such it demonstrates unfailingly why the Empire State Building has yet to relinquish its grip on the imagination. * Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians *When the 1250-foot Empire State Building opened in the Depression year of 1931, it was the world's tallest building. Today, it retains a special place in the heart of New Yorkers. Tauranac has written an informative and exciting biography of Manhattan’s most famous building. * Publishers Weekly *Table of Contents1. The Building 2. The Skyscraper 3. Zoning the City 4. The Boom of the Twenties 5. The Odd Couple 6. The Firm 7. The Site 8. The Style 9. The Design 10. The Contractors 11. The Mooring Mast 12. Building the Building 13. The Opening 14. The Staff and the Tenants 15. The Bust of the Thirties 16. The War 17. Since the War Epilogue: After 9/11Bibliography Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Rational Factory
Book SynopsisHer interdisciplinary study draws from the fields of business history, engineering, technology, architecture, and theories of modernity. Why did some people want to rationalize the factory, she asks, and how did the system impact those who worked under it?Trade ReviewTraditional business history at its best, essential reading for anyone interested in the history of efficiency, technology, and work in the United States. -- William Roy Journal of American History Enhances our understanding of the shift away from a more romantic nineteenth-century artisanal world to the rational, machine- and factory-based, mass production of the twentieth century. Science, Technology, and Society This interdisciplinary study aptly illustrates how buildings are much more than silent historical witnesses; they are in fact central, active components within the process of social change. Michigan Historical Review An important addition to the literature of industrial development. -- Paul Israel American Historical Review The Rational Factory is a substantial contribution to the history of industrial engineering and industrial architecture in the 19th and 20th centuries. -- Charles K. Hyde Industrial Archeology
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Johns Hopkins University Press Worthy of the Nation Washington D.C. from
Book SynopsisIllustrated with plans, maps, and new and historic photographs, the second edition of Worthy of the Nation provides researchers and general readers with an appealing and authoritative view of the planning and evolution of the federal district.Trade ReviewThis account clearly makes the case that the city would never have emerged in its present (and strikingly beautiful) form without the strong hand of planners who were politically empowered to run roughshod over the desires of various commercial developers and private interests. -- Francis Fukuyama American Interest 2007 New life for a classic. Planning 2007
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