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Author : John S. Garner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015019577140
Author : Andrew R. L. Cayton,Richard Sisson,Chris Zacher
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 1918 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253003492
This first-ever encyclopedia of the Midwest seeks to embrace this large and diverse area, to give it voice, and help define its distinctive character. Organized by topic, it encourages readers to reflect upon the region as a whole. Each section moves from the general to the specific, covering broad themes in longer introductory essays, filling in the details in the shorter entries that follow. There are portraits of each of the region's twelve states, followed by entries on society and culture, community and social life, economy and technology, and public life. The book offers a wealth of information about the region's surprising ethnic diversity -- a vast array of foods, languages, styles, religions, and customs -- plus well-informed essays on the region's history, culture and values, and conflicts. A site of ideas and innovations, reforms and revivals, and social and physical extremes, the Midwest emerges as a place of great complexity, signal importance, and continual fascination.
Author : Zach Mortice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1948742578
A reexamination of overlooked Midwestern architectural styles
Author : William H. Tishler
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0252025938
This richly illustrated collection profiles the bold innovators in landscape architecture who, around the turn of the twentieth century, ventured into the nation's heartland to develop a new style of design celebrating the native midwestern landscape.The pioneers of landscape architecture in the Midwest are responsible for creating some of the most recognizable parks, cemeteries, recreation areas, and other public gathering places in the region.Midwestern Landscape Architectureincludes essays on Adolph Strauch, who introduced a new concept of visually integrated landscape treatment in Cincinnati's Spring Grove Cemetery; William Le Baron Jenney, designer of Chicago's diverse West Parks; and Jens Jensen, who created the American Garden in Union Park in Chicago (a celebration of native flora) and founder of The Clearing, a unique school of the arts and humanities in Wisconsin. Other major figures include Frederick Law Olmsted Sr., co-designer of New York's Central Park, whose work in the Midwest included the layout of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, and Ossian Cole Simonds, who helped reconcile the formal approach of the City Beautiful movement with the naturalism of the Prairie School in urban park design.This volume also details the contributions of crusaders for ecological awareness and an appreciation of the region's natural heritage. These include horticultural writer Wilhelm Miller, who spread the ideals of the Prairie style, and Genevieve Gillette, a landscape architect and conservationist whose preservation efforts led to the establishment of numerous Michigan state parks and wilderness areas.Midwestern Landscape Architecturefosters a better understanding of how landscape design took shape in the Midwest and how the land itself inspired new solutions to enhance its understated beauty. Despite Olmsted's assessment of the Illinois prairie as "one of the most tiresome landscapes that I ever met with," the Midwest has amassed an important legacy of landscape design that continues to influence how people interact with their environment in the heartland.
Author : Philip A. Greasley
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 1074 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780253021168
The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation's Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on 35 pivotal Midwestern literary works, literary genres, literary, cultural, historical, and social movements, state and city literatures, literary journals and magazines, as well as entries on science fiction, film, comic strips, graphic novels, and environmental writing. Prepared by a team of scholars, this second volume of the Dictionary of Midwestern Literature is a comprehensive resource that demonstrates the Midwest's continuing cultural vitality and the stature and distinctiveness of its literature.
Author : Marcus Whiffen,Frederick Koeper
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262730707
The second volume of a guide comprehensive guide to American Architecture, covering developments between the years 1860 and 1976.
Author : Robert Winter,Alexander Vertikoff
Publisher : Gibbs Smith Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1586857991
A visual tour of midwestern America's most important buildings and their architects
Author : Mark Gelernter
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0719047277
Why did the colonial Americans give over a significant part of their homes to a grand staircase? Why did the Victorians drape their buildings ornate decoration? And why did American buildings grow so tall in the last decades of the 19th century. This book explores the history of American architecture from prehistoric times to the present, explaining why characteristic architectural forms arose at particular times and in particular places.
Author : Marilyn J. Chiat
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997-10-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0471145025
From the Moorish synagogue in small Texas town, to the New England meetinghouse nestled in the palm trees of Hawaii, this comprehensive historical survey of America's religious architecture celebrates the country's ethnic and spiritual diversity through the magnificent breadth of these community landmarks. The first comprehensive architectural and cultural history of its kind, the book features 500 places of worship nationwide, many listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Includes over 300 black-and-white photographs and foreword by Bill Moyers, creator of the PBS "Genesis" series.
Author : Lisa M. Tucker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317562221
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 : James F. O'Gorman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992-09-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0226620727
''Discusses the individual and collective achievement of the three American architects.''--
Author : Charles A. Birnbaum,Lisa E. Crowder
Publisher : Department of Interior National Park Reservation Assistance
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCR:31210024881144
Author : Jon K. Lauck
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806191416
At the center of American history is a hole—a gap where some scholars’ indifference or disdain has too long stood in for the true story of the American Midwest. A first-ever chronicle of the Midwest’s formative century, The Good Country restores this American heartland to its central place in the nation’s history. Jon K. Lauck, the premier historian of the region, puts midwestern “squares” center stage—an unorthodox approach that leads to surprising conclusions. The American Midwest, in Lauck’s cogent account, was the most democratically advanced place in the world during the nineteenth century. The Good Country describes a rich civic culture that prized education, literature, libraries, and the arts; developed a stable social order grounded in Victorian norms, republican virtue, and Christian teachings; and generally put democratic ideals into practice to a greater extent than any nation to date. The outbreak of the Civil War and the fight against the slaveholding South only deepened the Midwest’s dedication to advancing a democratic culture and solidified its regional identity. The “good country” was, of course, not the “perfect country,” and Lauck devotes a chapter to the question of race in the Midwest, finding early examples of overt racism but also discovering a steady march toward racial progress. He also finds many instances of modest reforms enacted through the democratic process and designed to address particular social problems, as well as significant advances for women, who were active in civic affairs and took advantage of the Midwest’s openness to women in higher education. Lauck reaches his conclusions through a measured analysis that weighs historical achievements and injustices, rejects the acrimonious tones of the culture wars, and seeks a new historical discourse grounded in fair readings of the American past. In a trying time of contested politics and culture, his book locates a middle ground, fittingly, in the center of the country.
Author : Dreck Spurlock Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 855 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135956295
Since 1865 African-American architects have been designing and building houses and public buildings, but the architects are virtually unknown. This work brings their lives and work to light for the first time.
Author : Marcus Whiffen,Frederick Koeper
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262730693
The first volume of a two-volume survey of American Architecture, this book covers architectural developments from Jamestown to the Civil War.
