Railway Palaces Of Portland Oregon The Architectural Legacy Of Henry Villard

Author : Alexander Benjamin Craghead
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781626193093

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Railway Palaces of Portland, Oregon: The Architectural Legacy of Henry Villard by Alexander Benjamin Craghead Pdf

In 1883, railroad financier Henry Villard brought Portland and the Pacific Northwest their first transcontinental railroad. Earning a reputation for boldness on Wall Street, the war correspondent turned entrepreneur set out to establish Portland as a bourgeoning metropolis. To realize his vision, he hired architects McKim, Mead & White to design a massive passenger station and a first-class hotel. Despite financial panics, lost fortunes and stalled construction, the Portland Hotel opened in 1890 and remained the social heart of the city for sixty years. While the original station was never built, Villard returned as a pivotal benefactor of Union Station, saving its iconic clock tower in the process. Author Alexander Benjamin Craghead tells the story of this Gilded Age patron and the architecture that helped shape the city's identity.

Author : Val C. Ballestrem
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439665930

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Lost Portland, Oregon by Val C. Ballestrem Pdf

As Portland has grown and changed, so has its architectural landscape. Once prominent landmarks have disappeared--the Marquam Building collapsed during 1912 renovations, the massive chamber of commerce building became a parking lot and the Corbett Building became a shopping mall. The city skyline was shaped by architects like Justus F. Krumbein and David L. Williams, only to drastically change in the face of urban renewal and the desire for modernization. Discover the stories behind some of Portland's most iconic buildings, including the Beth Israel Synagogue and the first East Side High School, both lost to fire. Join historian Val C. Ballestrem as he explores the city's architectural heritage from the 1890s to the present, as well as the creative forces behind it.

Author : Bob Sheil,Frédéric Migayrou,Luke Pearson,Laura Allen
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781911307266

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Drawing Futures by Bob Sheil,Frédéric Migayrou,Luke Pearson,Laura Allen Pdf

Drawing Futures brings together international designers and artists for speculations in contemporary drawing for art and architecture.Despite numerous developments in technological manufacture and computational design that provide new grounds for designers, the act of drawing still plays a central role as a vehicle for speculation. There is a rich and long history of drawing tied to innovations in technology as well as to revolutions in our philosophical understanding of the world. In reflection of a society now underpinned by computational networks and interfaces allowing hitherto unprecedented views of the world, the changing status of the drawing and its representation as a political act demands a platform for reflection and innovation. Drawing Futures will present a compendium of projects, writings and interviews that critically reassess the act of drawing and where its future may lie.Drawing Futures focuses on the discussion of how the field of drawing may expand synchronously alongside technological and computational developments. The book coincides with an international conference of the same name, taking place at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, in November 2016. Bringing together practitioners from many creative fields, the book discusses how drawing is changing in relation to new technologies for the production and dissemination of ideas.

Author : Thomas Parke Hughes
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1993-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 0801846145

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Networks of Power by Thomas Parke Hughes Pdf

Awarded the Dexter Prize by the Society for the History of Technology, this book offers a comparative history of the evolution of modern electric power systems. It described large-scale technological change and demonstrates that technology cannot be understood unless placed in a cultural context.

Author : Emily Faithfull
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429004602

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Three Visits to America by Emily Faithfull Pdf

A woman from Scotland recounts her travels in the U.S., focusing particularly issues relating to women (education, employment, etc.), also discussing more general cultural matters.

Author : Roy E. Roos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0966222415

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The History of Albina by Roy E. Roos Pdf

Author : Erik Grimmer-Solem
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108483827

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Learning Empire by Erik Grimmer-Solem Pdf

The First World War marked the end point of a process of German globalization that began in the 1870s. Learning Empire looks at German worldwide entanglements to recast how we interpret German imperialism, the origins of the First World War, and the rise of Nazism.

Author : John Albert Sleicher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000020241469

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Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper by John Albert Sleicher Pdf

Author : Andrew Taylor
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008325534

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The Last Protector (James Marwood & Cat Lovett, Book 4) by Andrew Taylor Pdf

From the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Ashes of London comes the next book in the phenomenally successful series following James Marwood and Cat Lovett.

Author : Mary Osborn Douthit
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1018103325

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The Souvenir of Western Women by Mary Osborn Douthit Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Pierre Berton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Railroads
ISBN : OCLC:59213547

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The Great Railway Illustrated by Pierre Berton Pdf

Author : Jo Baker
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345816405

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A Country Road, A Tree by Jo Baker Pdf

Samuel Beckett is a young writer living in Paris--intoxicated by new friendships with James Joyce and the other writers and artists making the vibrant city their creative home--when war breaks out in 1939. He determines to stay and is swiftly drawn into the maelstrom, joining the Resistance. With him we experience the terrifying excitement yet stubborn vibrancy and camaraderie as the Parisians flee the Nazis and the Resistance goes underground; his friendships with the astonishing group of men and women who find themselves caught up in the Occupation; his quiet, committed love for Suzanne, the Frenchwoman who will become his lifelong companion; and his dangerous work encoding critical messages in translations and narrow escapes from the Gestapo. Here is a remarkable story of survival and determination, and a portrait of a uniquely brilliant mind.

Author : Carolyn Marvin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1990-05-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780198021384

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When Old Technologies Were New by Carolyn Marvin Pdf

In the history of electronic communication, the last quarter of the nineteenth century holds a special place, for it was during this period that the telephone, phonograph, electric light, wireless, and cinema were all invented. In When old Technologies Were New, Carolyn Marvin explores how two of these new inventions--the telephone and the electric light--were publicly envisioned at the end of the nineteenth century, as seen in specialized engineering journals and popular media. Marvin pays particular attention to the telephone, describing how it disrupted established social relations, unsettling customary ways of dividing the private person and family from the more public setting of the community. On the lighter side, she describes how people spoke louder when calling long distance, and how they worried about catching contagious diseases over the phone. A particularly powerful chapter deals with telephonic precursors of radio broadcasting--the "Telephone Herald" in New York and the "Telefon Hirmondo" of Hungary--and the conflict between the technological development of broadcasting and the attempt to impose a homogenous, ethnocentric variant of Anglo-Saxon culture on the public. While focusing on the way professionals in the electronics field tried to control the new media, Marvin also illuminates the broader social impact, presenting a wide-ranging, informative, and entertaining account of the early years of electronic media.

Author : Philip Johnson,John Burgee,Nory Miller
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015036231788

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Johnson/Burgee by Philip Johnson,John Burgee,Nory Miller Pdf

Author : Arthur Train
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066359973

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Yankee Lawyer: the Autobiography of Ephraim Tutt by Arthur Train Pdf

American lawyer and writer of courtroom intrigues Arthur Train serves up the novel "Yankee Lawyer: the Autobiography of Ephraim Tutt". Tutt was the main character of numerous of Train's novels. The cunning and witty lawyer would be presented with a case so seemingly against his clients that it would at first seem impossible to win. And yet Tutt would somehow manage to get his client off the hook. Train describes him thus, "Not inaptly described as a combination of Robin Hood, Abraham Lincoln, Puck and Uncle Sam, he was beloved by a multitude of his fellow countrymen who knew him as a homespun but distinguished member of the bar, erudite and resourceful, a terror alike to judges and professional opponents, generous, warm of heart, intolerant of sham and of privilege, a doughty champion of the weak, with an impish humor which enabled him to laugh cases out of court and a fertility of invention that often turned what appeared almost certain defeat into victory. The reports of the celebrated trials in which he had taken part had been compiled into many volumes and were widely read. His ramshackly figure in his rusty frock coat and stove-pipe hat, the fringe of white hair overlapping his collar, his corrugated features with their long nose and jimber jaw, his faded but keen old eyes and quizzical glance were familiar in illustration and cartoon, while the antique flavor of his costume had long rendered him as conspicuous upon the streets of the metropolis as did Mark Twain's white Panama suit. Yet to us of his generation it was but the natural continuance of the regulation dress of every lawyer at the turn of the century; he was used to it and it merely did not occur to him to change..."