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Author : Keith N. Morgan
Publisher : Hood Museum of Art Darmouth College
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015031721692
A rich portrait of a major figure in American art & architecture & his role in shaping American cultural identity.
Author : Charles A. Birnbaum,Stephanie Sue Foell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCSD:31822037461761
A generous selection of illustrations, together with a list of surviving landscape sites accessible to the public, brings both the subjects and their art to life.
Author : Daniel Kaven
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035624403
A multimedia exploration of the morphology of architecture in the American Southwest as defined by evolving modes of transportation. In examining advances in transportation, the book asks how we have come to acquiesce to the monotonous, isolating, and aesthetically bankrupt landscape of suburbia. It also casts predictions about how the future built landscape will look as it continues to adapt to patterns of human movement.
Author : Chris W. Post,Alyson L. Greiner,Geoffrey L. Buckley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000832952
The Routledge Companion to the American Landscape provides a comprehensive overview of the American landscape in a way fit for the twenty-first century, not only in its topical and regional scope but also in its methodological and disciplinary diversity. Critically surveying the contemporary scholarship on the American landscape, this companion brings together scholars from the social sciences and humanities who focus their work on understanding the polyphonic evolution of the United States’ landscape. It simultaneously assesses the development of the US landscape as well as the scholarly thought that has driven innovation and continued research about that landscape. Four broad sections focus on key areas of scholarship: environmental landscapes, social, cultural, and popular identities in the landscape, political landscapes, and urban/economic landscapes. A special essay, "American Landscapes Under Siege" and accompanying short case studies call attention to the legacies and realities of race in the American landscape, bridging the discussion of social and political landscapes. This companion offers an invaluable and up-to-date guide for scholars and graduate students to current thinking across the range of disciplines which converge in the study of place, including Geography, Cultural Studies, and History as well as the interdisciplinary fields of American Studies, Environmental Studies, and Planning.
Author : Michael P. Conzen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 805 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317793694
The only compact yet comprehensive survey of environmental and cultural forces that have shaped the visual character and geographical diversity of the settled American landscape. The book examines the large-scale historical influences that have molded the varied human adaptation of the continent’s physical topography to its needs over more than 500 years. It presents a synoptic view of myriad historical processes working together or in conflict, and illustrates them through their survival in or disappearance from the everyday landscapes of today.
Author : Louise A. Mozingo,Linda Jewell
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786487332
While many fields struggle to specify feminine contributions, the work of women has always played a fundamental role in American landscape architecture. Women claim responsibility for many landscape types now taken for granted, including community gardens, playgrounds, and streetscapes. This collection of essays by leaders in the discipline addresses the ways that gender has influenced the history, design practice and perception of landscapes. It highlights women's relation to landscape architecture, presents the professional efforts of women in the landscape realm, examines both the perception and experience of landscapes by women, and speculates on ways to re-imagine gender and the landscape.
Author : Scott M. Roulier
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319688107
This book argues that the design of built spaces influences civic attitudes, including prospects for social equality and integration, in America. Key American architects and planners—including Frederick Law Olmsted, Frank Lloyd Wright, Robert Moses, and the New Urbanists—not only articulated unique visions of democracy in their extensive writings, but also instantiated those ideas in physical form. Using criteria such as the formation of social capital, support for human capabilities, and environmental sustainability, the book argues that the designs most closely associated with a communally-inflected version of democracy, such as Olmsted's public parks or various New Urbanist projects, create conditions more favorable to human flourishing and more consistent with a democratic society than those that are individualistic in their orientation, such as urban modernism or most suburban forms.
Author : Walter L. Creese
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Art
ISBN : 069104029X
The Description for this book, The Crowning of the American Landscape: Eight Great Spaces and Their Buildings, will be forthcoming.
Author : Michael P. Conzen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317793700
The only compact yet comprehensive survey of environmental and cultural forces that have shaped the visual character and geographical diversity of the settled American landscape. The book examines the large-scale historical influences that have molded the varied human adaptation of the continent’s physical topography to its needs over more than 500 years. It presents a synoptic view of myriad historical processes working together or in conflict, and illustrates them through their survival in or disappearance from the everyday landscapes of today.
Author : Davids, René
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813055848
Shaping Terrain shows how the physical landscape and local ecology have influenced human settlement and built form in Latin America since pre-Columbian times. Most urban centers and capitals of Latin American countries are situated on or near dramatically varied terrain, and this book explores the interplay between built works and their geographies in various cities including Bogotá, Caracas, Mendoza, Mexico D. F., Rio de Janeiro, Santiago de Chile, and Valparaíso. The multi-national contributors to Shaping Terrain have a broad range of professional experience as urbanists, historians, and architects, and many are globally renowned for their design work. They examine how humans negotiate with the existing environment and how the built form expresses that relationship. The result is a wide-ranging representation of the unique legacy of Latin America’s urban heritage, which is a repository of possibilities for future cities.
Author : Charles A. Birnbaum,Lisa E. Crowder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Horticultural writers
ISBN : UCBK:C064181081
Author : Charles A. Birnbaum,Scott Craver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Landscape architects
ISBN : 0813941733
Shaping the Postwar Landscape is the latest contribution to the Cultural Landscape Foundation's well-known reference project, Pioneers of American Landscape Design, the first volume of which appeared nearly a quarter of a century ago. The present collection features profiles of seventy-two important figures, including landscape architects, architects, planners, artists, horticulturists, and educators. The volume focuses principally on individuals whose careers reached their height during the period between the end of World War II and the American Bicentennial. In that postwar era, landscape architects played an important part in the revitalization of American cities, introducing new typologies for public spaces in the civic realm. Among these were parks that capped freeways, plazas and gardens atop buildings, promenades on revitalized waterfronts, "vest pocket" parks on tiny urban plots and derelict sites, and pedestrian-friendly downtown malls. Practitioners were also active on the new suburban frontier, their influence extending as far as Levittown and mobile-home communities. They created new outdoor living environments tailored to the California climate, and their work shaped landscaped in the American South, East, West, and Heartland. At a time when interest in midcentury architecture is flourishing, Shaping the Postwar Landscape offers a substantial parallel contribution to the field of landscape studies. It belongs not only on the bookshelves of serious students and scholars but in the office of every landscape architect sensitive to significant works of the recent past.
Author : D. W. Meinig
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300038828
This study discusses how an immense diversity of ethnic and religious groups became sorted into a set of distinct regional societies in North America.
Author : Cathy Jean Maloney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0813933110
As showcases for dramatic changes in garden style and new technology, world's fairs offered leading landscape designers and nurserymen the chance to tempt visitors to try new garden trends in backyards across the nation. From horticultural innovations to new landscape styles, the wonders displayed at these fairs had a distinct influence on America's largest urban parks. In World's Fair Gardens, Cathy Jean Maloney offers a lavishly illustrated exploration of the gardens and grounds of America's nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century world's fairs. Maloney describes the landscapes of nine of America's great fairs from the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia to the 1940 World's Fair of Tomorrow in New York, many of whose legacies are still evident. The fairs also created an arena for intense competition among nations. Foreign plant introductions included English rhododendrons in Philadelphia, Mexican cacti in New Orleans, and Japanese gardens at nearly all the fairs, a feat considering the formidable challenge of shipping live plants great distances in those times. Maloney also explores innovations from the "glazeless putty system" greenhouse in 1884 and cold storage systems in 1904 to modernistic glass fences in 1940. Complete with more than 50 color and 70 black-and-white illustrations, World's Fair Gardens will appeal to historians, gardeners, urban planners, landscape architects, public park advocates, preservationists, and anyone interested in the history of these global festivals. Supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Author : John R. Stilgoe
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300030460
Looks at the ways Americans have altered the landscape from the arrival of early Spanish settlers to the beginning of the country's rapid urbanization