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Cambridge University Press Selections from the Architectural History of the University of Cambridge
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Cambridge University Press Selections from the Architectural History of the University of Cambridge
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Cambridge University Press The Architectural History of the University of Cambridge and of the Colleges of Cambridge and Eton Volume 4 The Architectural Drawings
Book SynopsisRobert Willis' monumental architectural history of the University of Cambridge was hailed as 'one of the most important contributions to the social and intellectual history of England which has ever been made by a Cambridge man.' These fully illustrated volumes are here reprinted in their entirety, with a modern introduction by Professor David Watkin.Table of Contents1. Town of Cambridge; 2. Peterhouse: site and buildings; 3. Peterhouse: buildings; 4. Clare Hall: buildings; 5. Clare Hall: copy of ancient plan; 6. Pembroke College: site and buildings; 7. Pembroke College: buildings of the Principal Court previous to 1870; 8. Gonville and Caius College: site and buildings; 9. Trinity Hall: site and buildings; 10. Corpus Christi College: site and buildings; 11. Eton College: site and buildings; 12. Eton College: school-yard and cloister; 13. King's College: site and buildings; 14. King's College: chapel; 15. Queen's College: site and buildings; 16. St Catharine's Hall: site and buildings; 17. Jesus College: buildings; 18. Christ's College: site and buildings; 19. St John's College: site and buildings; 20. St John's College: site on the west side of the River Cam; 21. St John's College: old chapel; 22. Magdalene College: site and buildings; 23. Trinity College: site; 24. Trinity College: buildings; 25. Emmanuel College: site and buildings; 26. Sidney Sussex College: site and buildings; 27. Schools, Senate House, Library: buildings; 28. Schools and Library: first and ground floor; 29. New museums for Natural Science: buildings.
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Cambridge University Press St Stephens Chapel
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Cambridge University Press Architecture in the Age of Stalin
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Cambridge University Press The Place Royale and Urban Design in the Ancien R Gime
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Cambridge University Press Constantine Divine Emperor of the Christian Golden Age
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Cambridge University Press Art in the Era of Alexander the Great Paradigms of Manhood and their Cultural Traditions
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Cambridge University Press Architects and the Building World from Chambers to Ruskin
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Cambridge University Press Ancient Greece
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Cambridge University Press The Making of the Doric Temple
Book SynopsisIn this volume, Gabriel Zuchtriegel revisits the idea of Doric architecture as the paradigm of architectural and artistic evolutionism. Bringing together old and new archaeological data, some for the first time, he posits that Doric architecture has little to do with a wood-to-stone evolution. Rather, he argues, it originated in tandem with a disruptive shift in urbanism, land use, and colonization in Archaic Greece. Zuchtriegel presents momentous architectural change as part of a broader transformation that involved religion, politics, economics, and philosophy. As Greek elites colonized, explored, and mapped the Mediterranean, they sought a new home for the gods in the changing landscapes of the sixth-century BC Greek world. Doric architecture provided an answer to this challenge, as becomes evident from parallel developments in architecture, art, land division, urban planning, athletics, warfare, and cosmology. Building on recent developments in geography, gender, and postcolonial studies, this volume offers a radically new interpretation of architecture and society in Archaic Greece.Table of Contents1. Introduction: explaining architectural change; 2. Korkyra: contextualizing early Doric architecture; 3. Foce del Sele: mythical and colonial landscapes; 4. Selinous: urbanizations and temple building; 5. Delphi: architecture and panhellenism.
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Cambridge University Press Architects and the Building World from Chambers to Ruskin
Book SynopsisThis study peers behind the veil of architectural styles to the underlying social microcosm of the 'building world' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to examine how the fragile authority of the architect took root there.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: '… the scholarship is impressive …' Architecture TodayTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I: Section 1. 'The Shadow of their Wings': The Architect among Builders: 1. John Gwynn; 2. William Chambers; 3. The example of Chambers; Section 2. 'The Poetry of Architecture': The Architect above Builders: 4. Joseph Gwilt; 5. John Soane; 6. The example of Soane; Part II: Section 3. 'Mystery and Craft Are Gone By': The Poet's Descent: 7. A language of men; 8. The pictorial art; Section 4. 'He Never Condescended': Coming to Terms with New Disciplines: 9. Charles Barry; 10. Pugin; 11. A. J. Beresford Hope and the Ecclesiologists; Part III: Section 5. 'Conjunctive All': The Sharing of Knowledge in Building: 12. John Britton; 13. The Artizan; Section 6. 'Orthodoxy of Practice': The Builder and a New Freemasonry: 14. Josiah Hansom and The Builder; 15. Alfred Bartholemew, The Builder and the freemasons of the Church; 16. Bartholemew's College; 17. Godwin's Builder; Part IV: Section 7. Ruskin's Changing Prospect: 18. Ruskin, Leeds, Lamb, and Loudon; 19. The poetry of architecture; 20. Modern Painters I and II; 21. The Seven Lamps of Architecture; Part V: Section 8. Ruskin's Descent: 22. Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle; 23. The Stones of Venice: James Fergusson and E. L. Garbett; 24. Ruskin in 1854 and 1855; 25. Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites; Part VI: Section 9. Incarnation: 26. Ruskin, G. G. Scott and the architectural museum; 27. Ruskin, Acland, and the Oxford Museum; 28. Deane and Woodward; 29. Pre-Raphaelite painters and sculptors and the Oxford Museum; Part VII: Section 10. Ruskin's Reception: The 1850s and 1860s: 30. John Pollard Seddon and the 'puginisation' of Ruskin; 31. G. E. Street: father of the Arts and Crafts; 32. E. W. Godwin - the 'art-architect'; 33. The architectural museum in the late 1850s; 34. The failure of the Oxford Museum; 35. Ruskin's lectures to architects; Part VIII. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture
Book SynopsisSir William Chambers (172296), architect and furniture designer, wished to increase his status in the 1750s by publishing on architecture. His Treatise, annotated and republished in two volumes in 1825 by the architect Joseph Gwilt (17841863), is regarded as one of the standard English texts on classical architecture.Table of ContentsOf pedestals; Of the application of the orders of architecture; Of intercolumniations; Of arcades and arches; Of orders above orders; Of basements and attics; Of pediments; Of balustrades; Of gates, doors, and piers; Of windows; Of niches and statues; Of chimney-pieces; Of profiles for doors, windows, niches, chimney-pieces, etc.; Of block cornices and extraneous entablatures; Of the proportions of rooms; Of ceilings; Designs for casines, temples, gates, doors, etc.; Explanation of the principal terms employed in the science of architecture; General index; Directions to the binder; Errata.
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Cambridge University Press Contrasts
Book SynopsisAugustus Welby Northmore Pugin (181252), architect, author and interior designer, was among the most important figures in Britain's nineteenth-century Gothic Revival. First published in 1836, Contrasts is his most famous work, and this revised second edition of 1841 champions medieval architecture by satirically comparing it with 'debased' Regency equivalents.Table of ContentsPreface to the second edition; Plates; 1. On the feelings which produced the great edifices of the middle ages; 2. On the revived pagan principle; 3. Under Henry VIII; 4. Under Edward VI; 5. On the present degraded state of ecclesiastical buildings; Conclusion; Appendix.
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Cambridge University Press The Architecture of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Book SynopsisActive in the first century BCE, Marcus Vitruvius Pollio wrote his influential architectural treatise in ten books, covering a broad range of practical and theoretical topics. Complete with illustrative plates, this one-volume translation by Joseph Gwilt (17841863), first published in 1826, was long considered the standard English edition.Table of ContentsDedication; List of subscribers; Preface; Life of Vitruvius; List of the several editions and versions of Vitruvius; List of the chapters contained in the work; Description of the head-pieces; The architecture of Vitruvius, Books I-X; Plates, and explanations of them; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Reuse and Renovation in Roman Material Culture
Book SynopsisThis book is for those interested in the Roman world. It treats the reuse of sculptural and architectural materials in new contexts, and explores the new associations that these 'out of place' materials created for their viewers. Materials were sometimes used to create new meanings, and sometimes for economic expedience.Trade Review'Throughout, the volume is impressively well illustrated. It is wide ranging, informative, challenging and thought provoking. It is one of the best edited volumes I have read for some time. While each paper has a specific aim, sight of the bigger picture and wider context is never lost. Moreover, the fact that the papers communicate with each other throughout the volume is indicative of both careful editing and collaborative participation by the contributors in the overall process. The success of this volume means that there is good scope to broaden the contributions to include extra-urban regions and more provinces in future endeavours.' Rebecca J. Sweetman, The Journal of Roman StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction. 'Reuse, renovation, reiteration' Diana Y. Ng and Molly Swetnam-Burland; 1. 'The reuse and redisplay of honorific statues in Pompeii' Brenda Longfellow; 2. 'The Vigiles, dynastic succession and symbolic reappropriation in the Caserma dei Vigili at Ostia' Margaret L. Laird; 3. 'The epigraphy of appropriation: retrospective signatures of Greek sculptors in the Roman World' Catherine M. Keesling; 4. 'Gateways to the past: the Hadrianic architecture of procession in Pisidian Antioch and Athens' Adrian J. Ossi; 5. 'Visual literacy and reuse in the architecture of late Imperial Rome' Elisha Ann Dumser; 6. 'Urban transformations at Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity: destruction or intentional preservation?' Esen Ogus; 7. 'Acquiring the antique in Byzantine Rome: the economics of architectural reuse at Santa Maria Antiqua' Gregor Kalas; 8. 'The afterlife of the amphitheater: cultural biography and social memory at Tarragona' Sheila Bond.
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Cambridge University Press The Origins of Concrete Construction in Roman Architecture
Book SynopsisIn this study, Marcello Mogetta examines the origins and early dissemination of concrete technology in Roman Republican architecture. Framing the genesis of innovative building processes and techniques within the context of Rome''s early expansion, he traces technological change in monumental construction in long-established urban centers and new Roman colonial cites founded in the 2nd century BCE in central Italy. Mogetta weaves together excavation data from both public monuments and private domestic architecture that have been previously studied in isolation. Highlighting the organization of the building industry, he also explores the political motivations and cultural aspirations of patrons of monumental architecture, reconstructing how they negotiated economic and logistical constraints by drawing from both local traditions and long-distance networks. By incorporating the available evidence into the development of concrete technology, Mogetta also demonstrates the contributions of Trade Review'… [a] stimulating work … the bold thesis will inspire much discussion, in no small part because it rests on a keen understanding of the evidence … [Mogetta's] efforts deserve broad readership and serious engagement.' Seth Bernard, American Journal of ArchaeologyTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Deconstructing Roman Concrete; 3. A New Date for Concrete in Rome; 4. A View from the Suburbium; 5. Building Samnite Pompeii; 6. Colonial Networks; 7 Conclusion.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Sourcebook of Contemporary Architecture
Book SynopsisPresents more than 60 noteworthy case studies in a portable format, showcasing a range of structures worldwide. Incorporating every type of architectural project possible - private, commercial and public - this book features the work of world-renowned architects such as Gehry Partners, Ateliers Jean Nouvel, Santiago Calatrava, and othres.
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The University of Chicago Press Plotting Gothic
Book SynopsisPresents a new way of understanding the great Gothic churches of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries: as rhetorical constructs. The author traces common analogies between rhetoric and architectural space that date back to late antiquity, and then shows how those links were translated into wood, stone, and space under specific local conditions.
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The University of Chicago Press A World of Homeowners American Power and the
Book SynopsisIs there anything more American than the ideal of homeownership? In this groundbreaking work of transnational history, Nancy H. Kwak reveals how the concept of homeownership became one of America's major exports and defining characteristics around the world. In the aftermath of World War II, American advisers urged countries to pursue greater access to homeownership, arguing it would give families a literal stake in their nations, jumpstart a productive home-building industry, fuel economic growth, and raise the standard of living in their countries, helping to ward off the specter of communism. A World of Homeowners charts the emergence of democratic homeownership in the postwar landscape and booming economy; its evolution as a tool of foreign policy and a vehicle for international investment in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s; and the growth of lower-income homeownership programs in the United States from the 1960s to today. Kwak unravels all these threads, detailing the complex stories an
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University of Illinois Press Chicago Skyscrapers 19341986
Book SynopsisWinner ofThe Pattis Family Foundation Chicago Book Award, by The Pattis Family Foundation and the Newberry Library From skyline-defining icons to wonders of the world, the second period of the Chicago skyscraper transformed the way Chicagoans lived and worked. Thomas Leslie’s comprehensive look at the modern skyscraper era views the skyscraper idea, and the buildings themselves, within the broad expanse of city history. As construction emerged from the Great Depression, structural, mechanical, and cladding innovations evolved while continuing to influence designs. But the truly radical changes concerned the motivations that drove construction. While profit remained key in the Loop, developers elsewhere in Chicago worked with a Daley political regime that saw tall buildings as tools for a wholesale recasting of the city’s apTrade Review"An ambitious history that’s less the usual roundup of Loop landmarks than an architecture junkie’s dense wandering intriguingly away from downtown." --Chicago Tribune"A magisterial account of our city's high-rise foundations." --Newcity"An impressive and important book that ranks with other works providing the deepest insights into what makes Chicago, Chicago. . . . Chicago Skyscrapers, 1934-1986 is one of those rare books about significant architectural structures that looks beyond design controversies, elegant descriptions, and engineering details and examines the forces behind their creation." --Third Coast Review“A worthy successor to the pathbreaking work of Carl Condit, this deeply researched volume explores the architectural design, structure and equipment of tall buildings in Chicago from the 1930s into the 1980s in their full and complex relationship to changing economic, social, and political realities in the city.”--Robert Bruegmann, author of Art Deco Chicago: Designing Modern AmericaTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. The Second Skyscraper City Chapter 2. Technical Developments in the 1930s-1940s Chapter 3. Demographics and Housing Chapter 4. Prudential, Inland Steel, and the Rebirth of the Loop Chapter 5. Daley’s City: Commercial Construction, 1955-1972 Chapter 6. High Rise Housing in the 1960s Chapter 7. Skyscraper Urbanism Chapter 8. Tubes and the High-Rise as Structural Art Chapter 9. After Sears Coda: Mies, Morality, and the Myth of the “Second Chicago School” Notes Bibliography Index
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MIT Press Ltd A Second Modernism MIT Architecture and the
Book SynopsisAn account of architecture's postwar ambition to transform itself into a research-oriented and technologically complex discipline of design expertise.After World War II, a second modernism emerged in architecture—an attempt, in architectural scholar Joan Ockman's words, “to transform architecture from a 'soft' aesthetic discipline into a 'hard,' objectively verifiable field of design expertise.” Architectural thought was influenced by linguistic, behavioral, computational, mediatic, cybernetic, and other urban and behavioral models, as well as systems-based and artificial intelligence theories. This nearly 1,000-page book examines the “techno-social” turn in architecture, taking MIT's School of Architecture and Planning as its exemplar. In essays and interviews, prominent architectural historians and educators examine the postwar “research-industrial” complex, its attendant cult of expertise, and its influence on life and lette
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University of Washington Press The Seattle Bungalow
Book SynopsisThe Seattle bungalow was the nation's first modern home, and it established the essential characteristics of popular housing. This book modifies the common notion that architectural change flows only from the design elite - the architects, reformers and planners - and argues that ordinary people played a crucial role in creating the bungalow.Trade Review"This book will be an essential resource for historians examining modest housing anywhere in America in this period . . . . Bungalows are still popular today. . . but their current romanticization obscures a much more interesting story of how a building type was developed for and changed by a lower-middle-class clientele. Janet Ore has fortunately brought this history to light." * IA: Journal of the Society for Industrial Architecture *"Ore provides a fine addition. . . . By adopting a broad perspective, The Seattle Bungalow adds to our understanding of the process by which builders and owners expanded the twentieth-century markets for housing." * Winterthur Portfolio *"The Seattle Bungalow presents architectural history from the bottom up. It unravels not only the decisions of designers, builders, and housing entrepreneurs, but also those who lived in such buildings. In Janet Ore's expert hands, the bungalow becomes more than an arts and crafts icon of the simple life. . . . she has demonstrated its significance as symbol, commodity, and place of living." * Western Historical Quarterly *"The Seattle Bungalow makes an important contribution to the study of bungalows and early-twentieth-century architecture." * Technology and Culture *"By stitching together her variously themed chapters with constant reference to one house and one family, she brings an ethnographic approach to the study of the modern built environment. . . Ore's work amplifies on regionally based studies of the bungalow." * BC Studies *"Ore's book is a valuable addition to American cultural history. It is based on imaginative and wide-ranging research, is clearly presented, and is illustrated with a large number of photographs." * Oregon Historical Quarterly *"A valuable retrospective." * Choice *"The Seattle Bungalow is recommended not only for urban historians but also for Seattle and Northwest historians and history buffs… Ore's analysis of the maturation of finance, salesmanship, consumerism, and citizenship in the early 20th century (is) well worth the read." * Columbia *"Certainly every Arts & Crafts enthusiast should have this title on their bookshelf. As should architectural historians, students of material culture, social life and customs." * New York-Pennsylvania Collector *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Blueprints for "The Seattle Bungalow" 2. Idealizing The Seattle Bungalow 3. Building The Seattle Bungalow 4. Selling The Seattle Bungalow 5. Living in The Seattle Bungalow 6. Legacy of The Seattle Bungalow Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
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WW Norton & Co Broadway A History of New York City in Thirteen
Book SynopsisAn eye-opening history of Manhattan told through its most celebrated street.Trade Review"Wonderful. This isn’t only a history of Broadway—it’s a history of the entire city told through the story of the most famous street in America. Engagingly written and full of vivid characters. I couldn’t put it down." -- Kenneth T. Jackson, editor-in-chief, The Encyclopedia of New York City"Meticulously researched…Leadon’s tale is a whirl of characters…It is a whirl, too, of events…graced with wry wit." -- Clyde Haberman - New York Times Book Review"Part lively social history, part architectural survey, here is the story of Broadway—from 17th-century cow path to Great White Way." -- Wall Street Journal"A new history of the street that tells the story of modern America." -- David Taylor - The Guardian"Fran Leadon’s Broadway uses the thirteen miles of the great New York avenue to tell the remarkable story of the city’s evolution—its landmarks and legends, its high-rollers and lowriders. Part architectural history, part social history, it’s a cornucopia of intellectual delights. Endlessly fascinating and full of fun." -- John Lahr"A magical mystery tour of the street that invented American popular culture." -- Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz"[An] entertaining look at how the growth and development of New York City’s most famous street paralleled that of Manhattan…A welcome complement to more daunting and encyclopedic volumes on New York’s history." -- Publishers Weekly"Impressively detailed…A lively history of one of the most famous streets in America." -- Kirkus"[Leadon's] knowledge is expansive…[Broadway] is engagingly written and supplemented by good, easy-to-follow maps at each milestone." -- Booklist
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WW Norton & Co Broadway A History of New York City in Thirteen
Book Synopsis“Part lively social history, part architectural survey, here is the story of Broadway—from 17th-century cow path to Great White Way.”—Geoff Wisner, Wall Street JournalTrade Review"Wonderful.… Engagingly written and full of vivid characters. I couldn’t put it down." -- Kenneth T. Jackson, editor-in-chief, The Encyclopedia of New York City"Meticulously researched.… [Fran] Leadon’s tale is a whirl of characters.… It is a whirl, too, of events.… Leadon is graced with a wry wit." -- Clyde Haberman - New York Times Book Review"A new history of the street that tells the story of modern America." -- David Taylor - Guardian"Fran Leadon’s Broadway uses the thirteen miles of the great New York avenue to tell the remarkable story of the city’s evolution—its landmarks and legends, its high rollers and lowriders. Part architectural history, part social history, it’s a cornucopia of intellectual delights. Endlessly fascinating and full of fun." -- John Lahr"A magical mystery tour of the street that invented American popular culture." -- Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz"Fran Leadon… is a perfect biographer for Broadway, a main character in the development of one of the world’s great cities. His book is dense, richly written and researched, loaded with a million fun anecdotes." -- Bowery Boys blog"Well-written and very readable. I recommend it highly for anyone with an interest in New York City and its history. In following the journey up Broadway mile by mile, the reader can better understand a lot of American history and the trip is quite enjoyable." -- Richard D. Weigel - Bowling Green Daily News"Fran Leadon’s Broadway is only incidentally about the theaters that are the avenue’s famous feature, but is, as the subtitle promises, a witty and informed history of New York City—a travelogue through the past." -- David Luhrssen - Shepherd Express
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The University of Michigan Press A Setting For Excellence
Book SynopsisWhile there are times when the mix of old and new buildings and the chaotic activities of thousands of students can give a haphazard appearance to the university, campus planning has in fact become a highly refined form of architecture. This is demonstrated in a convincing fashion by this immensely informative and entertaining history of the evolution of the campuses of the University of Michigan.
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Thames & Hudson Ltd Casa Moderna
Book SynopsisA dazzling showcase of the best contemporary residential projects across Central and South America.Table of ContentsIntroduction: My House is My Refuge • 1. Tropical • 2. Mountainous • 3. Forest • 4. Urban • 5. Coastal
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LSU Museum of Art Through the Crystal Ball of the Chancellors Res
Book SynopsisTakes the reader inside the original 1928 Chancellor's Residence at 1803 Hillsborough Street to share the vision and the family life of each of the university's leaders, from President Brooks to Chancellor Woodson.
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Arcadia Publishing Philadelphias City Hall Images of America
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Arcadia Publishing Inc. The Historic Core of Los Angeles Images of
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Arcadia Publishing Inc. San Luis Obispo A History in Architecture Images
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Arcadia Publishing Toledo A History in Architecture 1914 to Centurys
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DK Architecture
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Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc Universal Principles of Architecture
Book Synopsis Take an expansive and provocative tour of architectural theory and practice, exploring everything from basic concepts to speculative design and subversive interventions.Universal Principles of Architecture illustrates in 100 concepts the importance, possibilities, challenges, and roles that architecture plays in shaping the world. This radical and perhaps surprising survey is divided into five sections: Archetypes, Methods, Conditions, Relationships, and Imaginaries. And, each of the five sections in the book introduces in 20 principles architecture at different scales and stages of the design process. Through an inclusive and holistic approach, the book refers to initial design ideas, creative design approaches, reflections on the effects of the built and destroyed environments, and architectural desires and aspirations to transform the world and engage with the cosmos.Because architecture is theTrade Review"Beautifully illustrated...especially and unreservedly recommended." * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION How to read Universal Principles of Architecture ARCHETYPES METHODS CONDITIONS RELATIONSHIPS IMAGINARIES GLOSSARY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHORS INDEX
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Victorian Architecture Original Plans for
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd SOUTH BEACH ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHS Art Deco to
Book SynopsisA resident of Miami Beach since 1990, Brazilian-born photographer Paul Clemence captures the emotion and spirit of the area's architecture in a collection of 65 b&w photographs.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Art Deco Architecture Miami Beach Postcards
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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 California Mission Landscapes
Book SynopsisTrade Review"California’s Spanish-Mexican missions are among the least known of America’s significant historic sites. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid’s pioneering study of the missions’ gardens uncovers their roles as sites of forced labor, romantic nationalism, racial formation, indigenous experience, and religious devotion. Her eye-opening account illuminates the tangled origins and meanings of these gardens, respecting the complexity that makes them so fascinating."—Dell Upton, author of Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic"This book must be read to understand the cultural memory presented in the landscape of the California missions. Rather than true to the missions’ actual look and to the history of land use, the gardens create an imagined past and an aestheticized space. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid examines the creation of the celebratory narrative the missions acquired through their landscapes. Her exemplary study makes it possible to also envision them as de-colonial sites."—Lisbeth Haas, author of Saints and Citizens: Indigenous History of Colonial Missions and Mexican California"Out here in California, we’re taught in elementary school that missions set up by Catholic missionaries during the Spanish era were necessary to save the Indians; in college, we’re rightfully taught they were basically concentration camps. This University of Minnesota Press libro is of the latter school, but takes on the fascinating prism of gardens to tell its enrapturing narrative."—Monterey County Weekly"A case study for discussing the politics of memory for heritage sites worldwide, making it an appropriate addition for any art library."—ARLIS/NA Reviews"Kryder-Reid’s strengths lie with her detailed interrogation of mission gardens, and California mission heritage more broadly, as well as her ability to foster dialogue about colonialism and the formation of cultural memory."—Western Historical Quarterly"Poignant and timely... More importantly, it is a counter narrative that needs to be told."—News from Native California"The book’s greatest strength is in reinforcing the idea of landscape as text. It is well written and reflect solid research."—Historical Geography"Using landscape as a starting point, Kryder-Reid marshals a truly impressive array of evidence to show how the California missions have been remade over time and to imagine what the future might hold for these historically and emotionally resonant places."—The Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History"The book succeeds as a primer for those interested in the ways California’s missions have been interpreted to date. Further, it successfully discusses how future interpretive plans that allow for meaningful conversations to take place at sites with difficult, contested histories might be envisioned."—New Mexico Historical ReviewTable of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Missions, Memory, and Heritage 1. Into the Corral: Colonial Landscapes, Domination, and Resistance 2. Time Binding: The Invention of the Mission Garden 3. “Where It Belongs in Time and Place and Public Understanding” 4. Subtle and Peculiar Power: The Embodied Experience of Heritage Conclusion: Third Spaces and the Future of Mission Memory Practices Appendix: Plant List, Santa Barbara Mission Garden, 1903 Notes Bibliography Index
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