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Author : Marcus Whiffen,Frederick Koeper
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262730693
The first volume of a two-volume survey of American Architecture, this book covers architectural developments from Jamestown to the Civil War.
Author : Marcus Whiffen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Architecture
ISBN : OCLC:1024177642
This classic introduction to American architecture covers forty of the styles used in the United States from 1780 onwards.
Author : Marcus Whiffen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:886649277
Author : Marcus Whiffen,Frederick Koeper
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262730707
The second volume of a guide comprehensive guide to American Architecture, covering developments between the years 1860 and 1976.
Author : Juan Pablo Bonta
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architectural writing
ISBN : 0262024004
In this volume the author analyzes 400 architectural books and articles published over the past 150 years to reveal changing societal preferences in architecture and to measure the reputations of individual architects - the text includes a ranked list of the 100 most famous architects.
Author : George Everard Kidder Smith
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568980256
This survey provides a unique overview of 1,000-years of architectural development.
Author : Mark Gelernter
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0719047277
Why did the colonial Americans give over a significant part of their homes to a grand staircase? Why did the Victorians drape their buildings ornate decoration? And why did American buildings grow so tall in the last decades of the 19th century. This book explores the history of American architecture from prehistoric times to the present, explaining why characteristic architectural forms arose at particular times and in particular places.
Author : G.E. Kidder Smith
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568982542
This comprehensive and insightful illustrated survey of 500 of America's most distinguished buildings provides a unique overview of the thousand-year architectural development of the United States. It examines our nation's architecture from its earliest days to the present, ranging from cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde to Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House in Chicago to James Ingo Freed's Holocaust Museum in Washington. Indispensable in any library, it also serves as a general introduction to American architecture or as a splendid guide for tourists.
Author : Dan Protess
Publisher : Agate Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781572847248
10 Buildings that Changed America tells the stories of ten influential works of architecture, the people who imagined them, and the way these landmarks ushered in innovative cultural shifts throughout our society. The book takes readers on a journey across the country and inside these groundbreaking works of art and engineering. The buildings featured are remarkable not only for aesthetic and structural reasons, but also because their creators instilled in them a sense of purpose and personality that became reflected in an overarching sense the American identity. Edited by the staff of WTTW, the Chicago PBS affiliate that is the most-watched public television station in the country, 10 Buildings will be released alongside the national broadcast of an hour-long special by the same name. This television event will be promoted over digital media, on-ground events, and educational initiatives in schools, and the book will be a significant component to all of these elements. 10 Buildings retells the shocking, funny, and even sad stories of how these buildings came to be. It offers a peek inside the imaginations of ten daring architects who set out to change the way we live, work, and play. From American architectural stalwarts like Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, to modern revolutionaries like Frank Gehry and Robert Venturi, this book examines the most prominent buildings designed by the most noteworthy architects of our time. Also profiled are Americans less noted for their architectural acumen, but no less significant for their contributions to the field. Thomas Jefferson, a self-taught architect, is profiled for designing the iconic Virginia State Capitol. Taking its inspiration from ancient Rome, America's first major public building forged a philosophical link between America and the world's earliest democracies. Similarly, Henry Ford employed Albert Kahn to design a state-of-the-art, innovative factory for Ford's groundbreaking assembly line. Reinforced concrete supported massive, open rooms without any interior dividing walls, which yields the uninterrupted space that was essential for Ford's sprawling continuous production setups. What's more, Kahn considered the needs of workers by including astonishingly modern large windows and louvers for fresh air. The design of each of these ten buildings was completely monumental and prodigious in its time because of the architect’s stylistic or functional innovations. Each was also highly influential, inspiring a generation or more of architects, who in turn made a lasting impact on the American landscape. We see the legacy of architects like Mies van der Rohe or H.H. Richardson all around us: in the homes where we live, the offices where we work, our public buildings, and our houses of worship. All have been shaped in one way or another by a handful of imaginative, audacious, and sometimes even arrogant individuals throughout history whose bold ideas have been copied far and wide. 10 Buildings is the ideal collection to detail the flashes of inspiration from these architects who dared to strike out on their own and design radical new types of buildings that permanently altered our environmental and cultural landscape.
Author : Donald Langmead
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780313342080
What turns a building into an icon? What is it about some structures that makes their history and legend even more important than their original intended use, making them a part of American, and world, popular culture? Twenty four buildings and structures, including the Brooklyn Bridge, the White House, the Hotel del Coronado, and the Washington Monument are presented here, along with their roles in fiction, film, music, and the imagination of people worldwide. Approximately twenty five images are included in the set, along with sidebars featuring additional structures.
Author : Keith Eggener
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0415306957
This book presents a collection of recent writings on architecture and urbanism in the United States, with topics ranging from colonial to contemporary times.
Author : Susan R. Braden
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781947372498
The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic. They examine topics critical to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, and tourism. They look at the growth of Florida and the Caribbean and the attendant pressures on the environment, culture, urban development, and the movement of peoples, both forced and voluntary. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series gathers the rich data available in these architectural, archaeological, cultural, and historical works, as well as the travelogues and naturalists’ sketches of the area in prior to the twentieth century, making it accessible for scholars and the general public alike. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series is made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, under the Humanities Open Books program.
Author : Jack Salzman,American Studies Association
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1986-08-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521266882
This is an annotated bibliography of 20th century books through 1983, and is a reworking of American Studies: An Annotated Bibliography of Works on the Civilization of the United States, published in 1982. Seeking to provide foreign nationals with a comprehensive and authoritative list of sources of information concerning America, it focuses on books that have an important cultural framework, and does not include those which are primarily theoretical or methodological. It is organized in 11 sections: anthropology and folklore; art and architecture; history; literature; music; political science; popular culture; psychology; religion; science/technology/medicine; and sociology. Each section contains a preface introducing the reader to basic bibliographic resources in that discipline and paragraph-length, non-evaluative annotations. Includes author, title, and subject indexes. ISBN 0-521-32555-2 (set) : $150.00.
Author : David H. Sachs,George Ehrlich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015037821769
Some were designed in elaborate styles bearing elegant names—Beaux-Arts, French Renaissance, Art Deco. Others were humbly handcrafted from easily accessible materials—wood, stone, and sod. But whether courtly, colloquial, capricious, or curious, each of the state's architectural configurations has become an aesthetic slice of Kansas. In Guide to Kansas Architecture, David Sachs and George Ehrlich spotlight hundreds of these surprisingly diverse homes, businesses, schools, churches, courthouses, theaters, bridges, and barns spread throughout all 105 counties. Encompassing the historical and contemporary, the vernacular and singular, this book features Victorian masterpieces, stately courthouses, and split-level suburban homes alongside the likes of "the world's most beautiful gas station" and Big Brutus, the enormous electric coal shovel turned museum. Illustrating where, how, and why Kansans assembled and altered their physical surroundings, the authors have amassed information on 700 structures—including descriptions, construction dates, architects, historical background, and unusual traits. They also provide maps and addresses to make them easy to find. This one-of-a-kind guide for Kansas underscores architecture's bond with the state's artistic, cultural, historical, social, political, and economic attributes and idiosyncrasies. As a handy reference and traveling companion, it will be invaluable to the well-versed architect, preservationist, or historian, as well as to the merely inquisitive and adventurous.
Author : James L. Garvin
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1584650990
The first and only full-scale technical and stylistic analysis of 200 years of architectural evolution in northern New England