Cheap And Tasteful Dwellings

Author : Jan Jennings
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 157233360X

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Cheap and Tasteful Dwellings by Jan Jennings Pdf

In 1879, Carpentry and Building magazine launched its first house design competitionfor a cheap house. Forty-two competitions, eighty-six winning designs, and a slew ofnear winners and losers resulted in a body of work that offers an entire history of anarchitectural culture. The competitions represented a vital period of transition in delineating roles and responsibilities of architectural services and building trades. The contests helped to define the training, education, and values of "practical architects" and to solidify house-planning ideals. The lives and work of ordinary architects who competed in Carpentry and Building contests offer a reinterpretation of architectural professionalization in this time period.Cheap and Tasteful Dwellings thoroughly explores the results of these competitions, conducted over a thirty-year period from 1879 to 1909. The book outlines the philosophybehind and procedures developed for running the competitions; looks at characteristicsof the eighty-six winners of the competitions; examines the nature of architecturalpractices during the period; analyzes the winning competition designs; and providesbiographical details of competition winners and losers.A landmark book in architectural history, Cheap and Tasteful Dwellings makes a compelling case for the theory of convenient arrangement--its history, its role, its principles, its relationship to contemporary interior design education, and its meaning to American architecture. More importantly, the book explains the impact of Carpentry and Building's contests in furthering the tenets of convenient arrangement for house design. By using extensive material from the magazine, Jennings leaves little doubt as to how important this overlooked story is to the history of American architecture as a whole.

Author : Elizabeth C. Cromley,Carter L. Hudgins
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 087049872X

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Gender, Class, and Shelter by Elizabeth C. Cromley,Carter L. Hudgins Pdf

Features 18 essays by scholars in the fields of folklore, architectural history, urban history, preservation, archaeology, and geography, tackling a variety of building types and interpretive issues within the broad themes of gender, economic and social institutions, ethnicity and race, popular culture, and rural and urban geographies. Bandw illustrations. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : John Cotter Pelton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : UCBK:C034808846

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Cheap Dwellings by John Cotter Pelton Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015080129607

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Building Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : Carol Kammen,Norma Prendergast
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0742503992

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Encyclopedia of Local History by Carol Kammen,Norma Prendergast Pdf

How is local history thought about? How should it be approached? Through brief, succinct notes and essay-length entries, the Encyclopedia of Local History presents ideas to consider, sources to use, historical fields and trends to explore. It also provides commentary on a number of subjects, including the everyday topics that most local historians encounter. A handy reference tool that no public historian's desk should be without!

Author : Catherine W. Zipf
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Arts and crafts movement
ISBN : 1572336013

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Professional Pursuits by Catherine W. Zipf Pdf

"Zipf focuses on five gifted women in various parts of the country. In San Diego, Hazel Wood Waterman parlayed her Arts and Crafts training into a career in architecture. Cincinnati's Mary Louise McLaughlin expanded on her interest in Arts and Crafts pottery by inventing new ceramic technology. New York's Candace Wheeler established four businesses that used Arts and Crafts production to help other women earn a living. In Syracuse, both Adelaide Alsop Robineau and Irene Sargent were responsible for disseminating Arts and Crafts-related information through the movement's publications. Each woman's story is different, but each played an important part in the creation of professional opportunities for women in a male-dominated society.".

Author : Bonnie Christensen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Festivals
ISBN : UVA:X004633609

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Red Lodge and the Mythic West by Bonnie Christensen Pdf

"Tracing the story of Red Lodge from the 1880s to the present, Christensen tells how a mining town managed to endure the vagaries of the West's unpredictable extractive-industries economy. She connects Red Lodge to a myriad of larger events and historical forces to show how national and regional influences have contributed to the development of local identities, exploring how and why westerners first rejected and then embraced "western" images, and how ethnicity, wilderness, and historic preservation became part of the identity that defined one town."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Lisa M. Tucker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317562221

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American Architects and the Single-Family Home by Lisa M. Tucker Pdf

American Architects and the Single-Family Home explains how a small group of architects started the Architects’ Small House Service Bureau in 1919 and changed the course of twentieth-century residential design for the better. Concepts and principles they developed related to public spaces, private spaces, and service spaces for living; details about the books they published to promote good design; as well as new essays from contemporary practitioners will inspire your own designs. More than 200 black and white images.

Author : Gervase Wheeler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : UOM:39015011568634

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Homes for the People, in Suburb and Country by Gervase Wheeler Pdf

Author : J. Ritchie Garrison
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1572334851

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Two Carpenters by J. Ritchie Garrison Pdf

This innovative study examines the lives of two New England carpenters, Calvin and George Stearns, who were active in the first half of the nineteenth century. Drawing on their written accounts and examining their legacy of buildings—a record as extensive and richly detailed as any that exists—J. Ritchie Garrison recovers the stylistic influences, family patterns, work habits, social customs, tools, and business practices that shaped the Stearnses’ identities as rural builders during a time of profound change. Although study of the region’s architectural forms began in the late nineteenth century and social historians have extensively discussed the emergence of rural capitalism in New England, there is still much to learn about the process by which these landscapes and buildings came into being. As Garrison shows, the Stearnses personified the dynamic interrelationships of city and country, and of industry and farming, as they filtered change through the actions of everyday living. Profusely illustrated with drawings and photographs, the book follows the Stearnses as they moved from newly settled towns on New England’s northern frontier, to federal-era Boston, the agricultural village of Northfield, Massachusetts, and the resort community of Brattleboro, Vermont. By tracing the lives and careers of these two carpenters, Garrison provokes readers to consider why things look the way they do, how they got that way, and what they mean.J. Ritchie Garrison is director of the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture and professor of history at the University of Delaware. His is the author of Landscape and Material Life in Franklin County, Massachusetts, 1770–1860.

Author : Peter A. Lombardi
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781438449944

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Jamestown, New York by Peter A. Lombardi Pdf

A comprehensive guide to the architectural history of Jamestown, New York. New York’s small cities are little-known treasure troves of American history. Among them, Jamestown stands out with a memorable and engaging cityscape highlighted by steep hills, brick streets, a remarkably intact city center, and numerous buildings of historical and architectural interest. Peter A. Lombardi’s Jamestown, New York chronicles the development of this Southern Tier city’s built environment over two-hundred years—from a frontier outpost, to a leading maker of furniture and textiles, to a reenergized postindustrial city. Part one provides a short history of Jamestown, emphasizing the economic and social forces that have influenced the city’s architecture and development patterns. Part two includes detailed entries on more than one hundred buildings and sites, with maps to facilitate walking and driving tours. This comprehensive guide to New York’s Pearl City illuminates the stories behind the buildings, connecting Jamestown’s past and present to the evolution of urban America. Peter A. Lombardi is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, and Deputy Director of the Jamestown Renaissance Corporation.

Author : Carolyn M. Goldstein
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780807835531

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Creating Consumers by Carolyn M. Goldstein Pdf

"Home economics emerged at the turn of the twentieth century as a movement to train women to be more efficient household managers. At the same moment, American families began to consume many more goods and services than they produced. To guide women in th

Author : Joy H. Dohr,Margaret Portillo
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1118030532

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Design Thinking for Interiors by Joy H. Dohr,Margaret Portillo Pdf

Take a holistic approach to contemporary interior design. The interior design process is changing. In order to create truly engaging work, designers are developing a deeper and broader understanding of how design theory, research, and existing practice can help them make better decisions. This inquiry provides answers on how design is experienced, and its impact over time. At the same time, the profession is becoming increasingly collaborative. Designers today work closely with other professionals—such as architects, landscape designers, product designers, anthropologists, and business consultants—in new ways, engaging an expanding network of experts in the design process more than ever before. Written by renowned scholars Joy Dohr and Margaret Portillo, the book brings interior design theory and research to life utilizing a narrative inquiry approach that offers highly accessible coverage of the interior design world as it exists today. By looking at real-life stories that demonstrate what makes a memorable design, coupled with photographs and drawings to further illustrate these concepts, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in keeping abreast of interior design in the twenty-first century.

Author : Joseph Heathcott
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781531504526

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Global Queens by Joseph Heathcott Pdf

Winner, The David R. Coffin Publication Grant A vibrant exploration of the everyday life of one of the most diverse places in the world: Queens, New York. Remade by decades of immigration, Queens, New York, has emerged as an emblematic space of social mixing and encounters across multiple lines of difference. With its expansive subdivisions, tangled highways, and centerless form, it is also New York’s most enigmatic borough. It can feel alternately like a big city, a tight-knit village, a featureless industrial zone, or a sprawling suburban community. Through more than 200 contemporary photographs, Joseph Heathcott captures this multifaceted borough and one of the most diverse places in the United States. Drawn from more than a decade of roaming around Queens and snapping photos, Heathcott conveys the juxtaposition of the ordinary and the extraordinary, the mundane and the surprising, and the staggering social diversity that best characterizes Queens. At the heart of the story are two separate but entwined histories: the rapid expansion of the borough’s built environment through the twentieth century, and the millions of people who have traveled from near and far to call Queens home. Newcomers have had to confront discrimination, white racial hostility, legal challenges, and language barriers. They have had to struggle to find adequate housing, places to worship, and jobs that pay enough to survive. And they have done all of this in the borough’s jumbled collection of neighborhoods, housing types, civic and religious institutions, factories and warehouses, commercial streets, and strip malls. Heathcott makes primary use of documentary photography to bring these social and spatial realities of everyday life into relief. He also draws on demographic data, archival sources, planning documents, news stories, and reports. The result is a visual meditation on Queens that provides clues about an urban future where notions of citizenship and belonging are negotiated across multiple lines of difference, but where a sense of ”getting along”—however roughly textured and unfinished—has taken hold in the everyday life of the streets.

Author : David L. Ames,Linda Flint McClelland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : MINN:31951D02106921U

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Historic Residential Suburbs by David L. Ames,Linda Flint McClelland Pdf