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Author : William Harvey Pierson,William H. Jordy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Architects
ISBN : UOM:39015012230705
Author : George Everard Kidder Smith
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568980256
This survey provides a unique overview of 1,000-years of architectural development.
Author : G.E. Kidder Smith
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : Leland M. Roth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780429973833
More than fifteen years after the success of the first edition, this sweeping introduction to the history of architecture in the United States is now a fully revised guide to the major developments that shaped the environment from the first Americans to the present, from the everyday vernacular to the high style of aspiration. Eleven chronologically organized chapters chart the social, cultural, and political forces that shaped the growth and development of American towns, cities, and suburbs, while providing full description, analysis, and interpretation of buildings and their architects. The second edition features an entirely new chapter detailing the green architecture movement and architectural trends in the 21st century. Further updates include an expanded section on Native American architecture and contemporary design by Native American architects, new discussions on architectural education and training, more examples of women architects and designers, and a thoroughly expanded glossary to help today's readers. The art program is expanded, including 640 black and white images and 62 new color images. Accessible and engaging, American Architecture continues to set the standard as a guide, study, and reference for those seeking to better understand the rich history of architecture in the United States.
Author : Mark Gelernter
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : William H. Jordy,University Professor of Art William H Jordy,Mardges Bacon
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300094493
'The Symbolic Essence of Modern European Architecture of the Twenties and Its Continuing Influence'), this collection contains critical writings on works by Mies, Corbusier, Kahn, and Venturi, as well as one previously unpublished text. Jordy leads readers to discover important connections of architecture with art, literature, intellectual history, symbolic structures, social purpose and community. He significantly shaped the way we understand the character and meaning of modern architecture and American culture.
Author : Luther S. Luedtke
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807843709
In this richly interdisciplinary work twenty-eight of the nation's leading critics and scholars offer a comprehensive exploration of American society and culture. Each outstanding in his or her own field, the contributors address "America" from a diversit
Author : Marcus Whiffen,Frederick Koeper
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,6 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,Frederick Koeper
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,5 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 : Jack Salzman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1986-08-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521266866
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 : Joan M. Marter
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 3140 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780195335798
Arranged in alphabetical order, these 5 volumes encompass the history of the cultural development of America with over 2300 entries.
Author : LaurenS. Weingarden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351559720
For most of the twentieth century, modernist viewers dismissed the architectural ornament of Louis H. Sullivan (1856-1924) and the majority of his theoretical writings as emotional outbursts of an outmoded romanticism. In this study, Lauren Weingarden reveals Sullivan's eloquent articulation of nineteenth-century romantic practices - literary, linguistic, aesthetic, spiritual, and nationalistic - and thus rescues Sullivan and his legacy from the narrow role imposed on him as a pioneer of twentieth-century modernism. Using three interpretive models, discourse theory, poststructural semiotic analysis, and a pragmatic concept of sign-functions, she restores the integrity of Sullivan's artistic choices and his historical position as a culminating figure within nineteenth-century romanticism. By giving equal weight to Louis Sullivan's writings and designs, Weingarden shows how he translated both Ruskin's tenets of Gothic naturalism and Whitman's poetry of the American landscape into elemental structural forms and organic ornamentation. Viewed as a site where various romantic discourses converged, Sullivan's oeuvre demands a cross-disciplinary exploration of each discursive practice, and its "rules of accumulation, exclusion, reactivation." The overarching theme of this study is the interrogation and restitution of those Foucauldian rules that enabled Sullivan to articulate architecture as a pictorial mode of landscape art, which he considered co-equal with the spiritual and didactic functions of landscape poetry.
Author : Roxanne Kuter Williamson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780292762909
Why does one talented individual win lasting recognition in a particular field, while another equally talented person does not? While there are many possible reasons, one obvious answer is that something more than talent is requisite to produce fame. The "something more" in the field of architecture, asserts Roxanne Williamson, is the association with a "famous" architect at the moment he or she first receives major publicity or designs the building for which he or she will eventually be celebrated. In this study of more than six hundred American architects who have achieved a place in architectural histories, Williamson finds that only a small minority do not fit the "right person–right time" pattern. She traces the apprenticeship connection in case studies of Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Henry Hobson Richardson, the firm of McKim, Mead & White, Latrobe and his descendants, the Bulfinch and Renwick Lines, the European immigrant masters, and Louis Kahn. Although she acknowledges and discusses the importance of family connections, the right schools, self-promotion, scholarships, design competition awards, and promotion by important journals, Williamson maintains that the apprenticeship connection is the single most important predictor of architectural fame. She offers the intriguing hypothesis that what is transferred in the relationship is not a particular style or approach but rather the courage and self-confidence to be true to one's own vision. Perhaps, she says, this is the case in all the arts. American Architects and the Mechanics of Fame is sure to provoke thought and comment in architecture and other creative fields.
Author : Keith Eggener
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134399246
This major new text presents a collection of recent writings on architecture and urbanism in the United States, with topics ranging from colonial to contemporary times. In terms of content and scope, there is no collection, in or out of print, directly comparable to this one. The essays are drawn from the past twenty years' of publishing in the field, arranged chronologically from colonial to contemporary and accessible in thematic groupings, contextualized and introduced by Keith Eggener. Drawing together 24 illustrated essays by major and emerging scholars in the field, American Architectural History is a valuable resource for students of the history of American art, architecture, urbanism, and material culture.
Author : Gwendolyn Wright
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1861893442
Gwendolyn Wright’s USA is an engaging account the evolution of American architecture, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first.
