New Classic American Houses

Author : Dan Cooper
Publisher : Vendome Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCSD:31822036371821

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New Classic American Houses by Dan Cooper Pdf

Albert, Righter & Tittman Architects create finely crafted houses that pay homage to classic American house styles yet are adapted with skill, mastery and a good dose of irreverence to suit contemporary American life. At first glance, their Cambridge Cupola House loks like a typical mid-19th-century Greek Revival house, but on closer inspection, one realises that nothing is quite where it should be. The grand, cupola-topped rotunda entrance, for instance, is located not in the front, but on the side of the house! The reason? To increase the living space for the inhabitants. Richly illustrated with specially commissioned photographs, as well as with plans, drawings and watercolours, this sumptuous volume celebrates AR & Ts timeless, innovative designs and explores the historical styles on which they are based from Classical to Shingle, from Carpenter Gothic to Cape. Focusing on the superb craftsmanship and exquisite detailing of AR & Ts exteriors, interiors and outbuldiings, each chapter features one or more sidebars highlighting their inventive use of architectural elements, including columns, fireplaces, balustrades and moldings. It will be a trove of design ideas for professionals and homeowners alike.

Author : Gil Schafer III
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9780847838721

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The Great American House by Gil Schafer III Pdf

Acclaimed architect Gil Schafer illustrates how he blends classical architecture, interior decoration, and landscape to create homes with a feeling of history. As a traditional architect, Gil Schafer specializes in building new "old" houses as well as renovating historic homes. His work takes the best of American historic and classical architecture—its detailed moldings and harmonious proportions—and updates it, retaining its character and detail while simultaneously reworking it to be more in tune with the way we live now—comfortable, practical, family-oriented. In his first book, Schafer covers the three essential cornerstones of creating a great traditional house: architecture, landscape, and decoration. He discusses the important interplay between the interior architecture and the fabrics, furniture, and wall treatments. In-depth profiles build on these essays, including Schafer’s own new "old" house in the Hudson Valley; the renovation of a historic home in Nashville designed by Charles Platt in 1915; and the restoration of a magnificent 1843 Greek Revival mansion in Charleston. Filled with hundreds of interior and detail shots, The Great American House is an invaluable resource for anyone who loves old houses and traditional design.

Author : Russell Versaci
Publisher : Taunton Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1561587923

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Creating a New Old House by Russell Versaci Pdf

Through hundreds of inspiring photos and engaging text, the author describes what gives traditional homes their enduring appeal, and illustrates the creative work of builders who are forging the movement toward building new homes that capture old-home sensibility.

Author : Clive Aslet
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780847870639

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Building Beautiful by Clive Aslet Pdf

New homes, featuring interiors, gardens, and furniture from London-based architect John Simpson, famed designer of the Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace and one of the world’s leading practitioners of New Classicism. Inviting, perfect in proportion, exquisite in detail—such are a few of the ways to describe homes designed by John Simpson. Well known for his work with the British royal family at Buckingham and Kensington palaces and for his buildings at Eton College in the U.K. and at the University of Notre Dame in the U.S., he is perhaps most brilliant at the level of the house and home. Building Beautiful is an invitation to enter the work of this master designer, as one might visit with a treasured friend. From a dream made real within a Venetian palazzo—a former seventeenth-century near-ruin, brought back to glorious, fancifully detailed life—to an English countryside cottage with a thatched roof, the featured homes are expressions of Simpson’s unerring eye and extraordinary sense of beauty. Here we find drama in contrasts of scale and the seductive effects of light, where a cozy reading nook opens to an expansive living room with a double-height ceiling that nevertheless feels not overly large but rather just right. This is Simpson’s subtle art—a mastery of scale, balance, and a pervading sense of elegance.

Author : Frank Shirley
Publisher : Taunton Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781561588855

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New Rooms for Old Houses by Frank Shirley Pdf

Provides advice for adding additions to older homes, considering balance, transition, public versus private space, and materials; and including photographs, floor plans, and illustrations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Sterling Publishing (NY)
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0806974168

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The Old House Book of Classic Country Houses by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edwin Hoag
Publisher : HarperCollins Children's Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Architecture
ISBN : MINN:31951000000823X

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American Houses: Colonial, Classic, and Contemporary by Edwin Hoag Pdf

A history of American houses from the crudely built log cabins of the early settlers to the skycrapers of the twentieth century.

Author : Norman Morrison Isham
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780486146263

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Early American Houses by Norman Morrison Isham Pdf

An intriguing examination of classic colonial houses, this fact-filled foray explores with remarkable concision the "medieval period" of American architecture. The treatise takes for its examples the first houses built along the Atlantic coast in the seventeenth century. While these early structures were usually based on traditional English and Dutch styles, their design and methods of construction soon acquired a unique character of their own. Geographically remote from the stylistic restrictions of Europe, American architects used new plans and construction elements to create fresh new dwellings with individual beauty and charm. Early American Houses includes over 100 photographs and illustrations that highlight the architecture of young America, with a particular focus on the Tudor and late Gothic styles that ultimately shaped the distinctive house designs of today. Original floor plans and sketches abound — including interior and exterior treatments, elevations, and framing — partnered with detailed descriptions that breathe life into each construction. Accompanying this work is a comprehensive Glossary of Colonial Architectural Terms. Originally published separately, it provides definitions for everything from "arch" to "wainscot," and it is reprinted here to enhance the overall value of the companion volume.

Author : Tad Burness
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-28
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781440225901

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Vintage House Book: 100 Years of Classic American Homes 1880-1980 by Tad Burness Pdf

Follow the progression of the American home with this latest creation from the Tad Burness studio. This one-of-a-kind collection features historical, exciting, and beautiful homes from 1880 to 1980. Each yearly section presents various styles of houses, kitchens, baths, floor plans, light fixtures, and new developments. Many of the time periods include detailed advertisements with original prices, competing household appliances, and new fads. Representative regions and styles include the kit houses of the early 1900s, Victorian-style homes, and Mediterranean looks. The wealth of information and detail will pique the curiosity of those interested in home restoration, and retro design, as well as architects, real estate agents, interior designers, and members of historical societies.

Author : Gerald L. Foster
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0547561520

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American Houses by Gerald L. Foster Pdf

American Houses is a historical guide to the architecture of the American home. While other architectural field guides show only façades, this book includes floor plans, showing how the form of a house arises from its function. Photographs and drawings of exteriors illustrate the significant field marks of each style and help pinpoint the key elements that can identify a house even when it has been remodeled beyond recognition. Beautifully illustrated, clearly written, and impeccably researched, American Houses is an essential reference for anyone interested in the history of American residential architecture.

Author : Loizeaux
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780486135717

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Classic Houses of the Twenties by Loizeaux Pdf

Rare plan book published by Loizeaux building-supply and lumber companies of New Jersey in 1927. Illustrations and floor plans for 134 houses — Colonial, Gothic, Modern English, Italian, and other styles. Over 230 illustrations.

Author : Charles F. Hilton
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781580935449

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Classic Greenwich Houses by Charles F. Hilton Pdf

Elegant and welcoming houses in bucolic settings by Charles Hilton, a leading traditional architect in Greenwich. This book presents nine spectacular houses, each responding to an equally spectacular site. They are the work of Charles Hilton, a leading traditional architect in Greenwich, Connecticut, whose firm has been honored with multiple regional and national awards including Palladio and Stanford White awards. As an architect, Hilton is committed to designing imaginative buildings that inspire and delight and to creating a humanistic architecture that embodies the aspirations of his clients. He works in traditional vocabularies--principally Georgian, Beaux-Arts and shingle style--with exquisite classical detailing, but his houses are also completely contemporary in incorporating state-of-the-art technology and sustainable design. As he observes, "Our clients rely on our creativity and ingenuity to create houses that honor tradition, while seamlessly integrating modern amenities essential for contemporary living." Hilton has practiced in Greenwich for more than thirty years, and he is completely fluent with its rich and diverse architectural heritage. This means that his houses, while meticulously detailed and impressive, are also beautifully integrated into the panoramic waterfronts, rolling lawns and rustic back-country landscapes that are characteristic of Greenwich and the surrounding countryside.

Author : Virginia Savage McAlester
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780385353878

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A Field Guide to American Houses by Virginia Savage McAlester Pdf

For the house lover and the curious tourist, for the house buyer and the weekend stroller, for neighborhood preservation groups and for all who want to know more about their community -- here, at last, is a book that makes it both easy and pleasurable to identify the various styles and periods of American domestic architecture. Concentrating not on rare landmarks but on typical dwellings in ordinary neighborhoods all across the United States -- houses built over the past three hundred years and lived in by Americans of every social and economic background -- the book provides you with the facts (and frame of reference) that will enable you to look in a fresh way at the houses you constantly see around you. It tells you -- and shows you in more than 1,200 illustrations -- what you need to know in order to be able to recognize the several distinct architectural styles and to understand their historical significance. What does that cornice mean? Or that porch? That door? When was this house built? What does its style say about the people who built it? You'll find the answers to such questions here. This is how the book works: Each of thirty-nine chapters focuses on a particular style (and its variants). Each begins with a large schematic drawing that highlights the style's most important identifying features. Additional drawings and photographs depict the most common shapes and the principal subtypes, allowing you to see at a glance a wide range of examples of each style. Still more drawings offer close-up views of typical small details -- windows, doors, cornices, etc. -- that might be difficult to see in full-house pictures. The accompanying text is rich in information about each style -- describing in detail its identifying features, telling you where (and in what quantity) you're likely to find examples of it, discussing all of its notable variants, and revealing its origin and tracing its history. In the book's introductory chapters you'll find invaluable general discussions of house-building materials and techniques ("Structure"), house shapes ("Form"), and the many traditions of architectural fashion ("Style") that have influenced American house design through the past three centuries. A pictorial key and glossary help lead you from simple, easily recognized architectural features -- the presence of a tile roof, for example -- to the styles in which that feature is likely to be found. This eBook edition has been optimized for screen.

Author : Michael Webb,Roger Straus
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architect-designed houses
ISBN : UOM:39015050024952

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Modernism Reborn by Michael Webb,Roger Straus Pdf

In the first book of its kind, architectural critic Michael Webb and Esto photographer Roger Straus III examine 35 extraordinary modern houses that have been restored, enhanced, or extended by new owners who see them as timeless classics. Built in the heyday of modernism, from the 1930s through the early 1960s, these houses were designed by exceptional architects for themselves or for adventurous clients. A few were preserved as time capsules, but most endured years of neglect or abuse and might easily have been torn down. Webb explores how these houses were created-- as daring experiments or as creative responses to site and climate-- and the research and effort that went into their restoration. Included here are villas that fuse craft and invention, machines for living, and residences that embrace the landscape. Here, too, are houses inspired by the purity of classical temples, and frugal dwellings that have been sensitively enlarged. After a long eclipse, these houses and the enlightened attitudes they embody are being rediscovered by creative individuals searching for distinctive, open, light-filled places to live. Modernism is a way of living, more than a style, and this book celebrates the architects and owners who respect its character and scale. Also included are nearly 200 photographs taken by Roger Straus, all of which were specially commissioned for this book.

Author : Tad Burness
Publisher : Krause Publications Incorporated
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0873495330

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The Vintage House Book by Tad Burness Pdf

Shows over 2,500 images of classic American homes and architecture, from the 1880s to the 1980s.