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Author : Phaidon Press
Publisher : Phaidon
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015077140096
Presents a guide to one hundred iconic houses, from the thirteenth century to the present day.
Author : Gil Schafer III
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9780847838721
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 : Jason Loper,Michael Schreiber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : American System-Built Homes
ISBN : 1087500613
Long before designing his signature Usonian houses, Frank Lloyd Wright envisioned an earlier series of affordable models for the middle class: The American System-Built Homes. He developed seven floorplans of varying size and layout, standardized so that materials could be precut at the factory to reduce costs. Only a few years after the project began, the United States entered World War I, and all home construction was stalled due to lumber shortages. Wright then turned his attention to other projects, and with fewer than twenty built, the American System-Built Homes were all but forgotten.In 2011, Jason Loper and Michael Schreiber purchased the only American System-Built Home constructed in Iowa, the Meier House, which set them on a course of refurbishing and researching their new residence. In This American House, Loper and Schreiber trace the history of the Meier House through its previous owners, and shed light on this underexplored period of Wright's oeuvre. With a preface by John H. Waters, the Preservation Programs Manager of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, This American House addresses what it means to be the stewards of a piece of history.
Author : Mary Mix Foley
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Architecture
ISBN : WISC:89031166234
More than three hundred historically accurate line drawings highlight this concise, informative guide to the styles and history of American houses from pre-Revolutionary days to the present.
Author : John Milnes Baker
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0393323250
America has an abundance of fascinating and varied house styles, as fascinating and diverse as its people. This unique book will allow readers to recognize the architectural features and style of virtually any house they encounter.
Author : Hannah Jenkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1864708115
- Unparalleled array of American architects and firms: widely known and under-the-radar, established and up-and-coming, large and small - Unparalleled variety in style and type: traditional, modern, and everything in between; grand villas and small cabins; posh seaside villas, rustic and remote cabins, urban townhouses - Unparalleled diversity in geographical range: from California to Hawaii and many states in between The American House is an exceedingly diverse collection of contemporary residential designs in the United States. This book follows the successful title European House, likewise a gorgeous collection of new residential architecture. The American House contains cutting-edge residential designs by leading architects from across the United States. Stunning color photographs and plans underline the sensitivity of today's architects to the natural environment, as well as the care and attention paid to interior design and everyday living. This new volume features an extraordinary variety in style, sophistication, affordability, site and landscape, with an emphasis on sustainability practices in both design and construction. Each project illustrates how architects adapt their signature styles to accommodate the challenges posed by local topography and variations in climate, along with a sharp focus on optimum strategies for sustainable living. A lively introduction by critic Ian Volner comments on the many trends, often contradictory, that characterize the architecture of houses in the 2010s. In its sweeping scope, this book considers the present and points to the future of residential design in the United States.
Author : A. G. Smith
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0486244725
"Noted illustrator A. G. Smith has rendered over 40 extant structures in crisp, detailed drawings. Ranging from the Taos Pueblo ... to a striking contemporary design ..., the houses represent a host of native and European-inspired styles"--Back cover.
Author : Katherine Morrow 1905- Ford,Thomas Hawk Creighton
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1015072453
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. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Walt Hunter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192668981
The house is perhaps the most recognizable emblem of the American ideals of self-making: prosperity, stability, domesticity, and upward mobility. Yet over the years from 1945-2021, the American house becomes more famous for the betrayal of those hopes than for their fulfilment: first, through the segregation of cities and public housing; then through the expansion of private credit that lays the ground for the subprime mortgage crisis of the early twenty-first century. Walt Hunter argues that, as access to housing expands to include a greater share of the US population, the house emerges as a central metaphor for the poetic imagination. From the kitchenette of Gwendolyn Brooks to the duplex of Jericho Brown, and from the suburban imagination of Adrienne Rich to the epic constructions of James Merrill, the American house poem represents the changing abilities of US poets to imagine new forms of life while also building on the past. In The American House Poem, 1945-2021, Hunter focuses on poets who register the unevenly distributed pressures of successive housing crises by rewriting older poetic forms. Writing about the materials, tools, and plans for making a house, these poets express the tensions between making their lives into art and freeing their lives from inherited constraints and conditions.
Author : Lucius D. Gould
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Carpentry
ISBN : MINN:31951000804284X
Author : Clive Aslet
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300105053
This magnificent book describes the great country houses built with American industrial fortunes from the end of the Civil War until 1940. The American Country House draws on the rich and often amusing writings of contemporaries to evoke the lives the buildings served as well as architectural shapes they took. 275 illustrations.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Images Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1864706821
Forming part of its Classical Architecture Collection, this latest compilation volume by IMAGES, The Classical American House, reveals an enticing glimpse into the exquisite architectural works of innovative and skilled contemporary classicists.
Author : Steven Emerson
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1985-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780531097786
An examination of Saudi Arabia and its immense clout in the United States and throughout the Western world thanks to its petrodollars wealth and control of a huge proportion of the world's petroleum.
Author : Lisa Nanni-Messegee,Todd Messegee
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-26
Category : Home
ISBN : 1508597480
A man walks on the moon. A ship transporting a fortune in gold sinks in a hurricane. A country awaits the return of their brave soldiers at the end of a great and terrible war. These are just some of the moments that impact the lives of the characters in "An American House," a play by Lisa Nanni-Messegee and Todd Messegee (writers of the made for TV movie, "Romantically Speaking" starring Heather Morris.) The story takes place in a single home in the imaginary town of Linden Falls, New York and presents one hundred and fifty years of American history, showing how those events change the lives of the people who live in this American house. "An American House" is a play for all ages, steeped in a love of family and country.
Author : Gerald L. Foster
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0547561520
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.