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Author : Glenn Lyle Saxton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : NYPL:33433065866463
Author : Glenn Lyle Saxton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1334233136
Excerpt from The Plan Book of American Dwellings: Being a Compilation of Original Home Designs Showing Actual Photographic Exteriors and Floor Plans of Moderately Priced Bungalows, Cottages, Residences The reason for this is apparent; when a person decides to build a home of elaborate proportions, he feels the need of a competent architect. He has the means to employ one, and he usually endeavors to engage the services of the best he can obtain. On the other hand, the man of moderate means. Who can afford only a medium priced home, realizes that it is only through the most rigid economy that he can hope to build a home with the necessary rooms, finished in the simplest style possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Sarah J. Boykin,Susan M. Hunter
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780820351810
Southern Homes and Plan Books showcases the architectural legacy and design philosophy of Leila Ross Wilburn (1885–1967), a legacy that includes hundreds of houses in a variety of popular house styles, from bungalows to ranch houses, built using Wilburn’s plan books during the first six decades of the twentieth century. Wilburn opened her own firm in Atlanta in 1908 and practiced until her death in 1967. She published nine plan books that offered mail order house designs to contractors, builders, and prospective homeowners and allowed them the ease of choosing a preconceived design and construction plan. Sarah J. Boykin and Susan M. Hunter provide a survey of the southern homes built from Wilburn’s plan books, examining Wilburn’s architectural legacy and her achievements as a plan book architect. The book provides beautiful photographs of houses built from her plans, along with illustrations from the plan books themselves and other related documents from the time. Readers can thus see how her designs were realized as individual houses and also how they influenced the development of some of the Atlanta area’s beloved historical neighborhoods, most notably Druid Hills, Morningside, Virginia-Highland, and Candler Park, as well as the McDonough–Adams–Kings Highway (MAK) Historic District in Decatur. Today, Wilburn’s houses are enjoyed as appealing, historic homes and represent some of the richest examples of southern vernacular architecture to emerge from the plan book tradition.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Sterling Publishing (NY)
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0806974168
Author : Henry L. Wilson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780486138336
Here are 112 of the most popular and economic blueprints of the early 20th century — plus an illustration or photograph of each completed house. A wonderful time capsule that still offers a wealth of valuable insights.
Author : Linda E. Smeins
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0761989633
This work follows the evolution of the pattern book houses and how they represented the notion of home and community in American historical memory. The book also includes illustrations of such communities.
Author : M. Nolan Gray
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781642832549
It's time for America to move beyond zoning, argues city planner M. Nolan Gray in Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It. With lively explanations, Gray shows why zoning abolition is a necessary--if not sufficient--condition for building more affordable, vibrant, equitable, and sustainable cities. Gray lays the groundwork for this ambitious cause by clearing up common misconceptions about how American cities regulate growth and examining four contemporary critiques of zoning (its role in increasing housing costs, restricting growth in our most productive cities, institutionalizing racial and economic segregation, and mandating sprawl). He sets out some of the efforts currently underway to reform zoning and charts how land-use regulation might work in the post-zoning American city. Arbitrary Lines is an invitation to rethink the rules that will continue to shape American life--where we may live or work, who we may encounter, how we may travel. If the task seems daunting, the good news is that we have nowhere to go but up
Author : Loizeaux
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780486135717
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 : Conor Dougherty
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780525560227
A Time 100 Must-Read Book of 2020 • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • California Book Award Silver Medal in Nonfiction • Finalist for The New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism • Named a top 30 must-read Book of 2020 by the New York Post • Named one of the 10 Best Business Books of 2020 by Fortune • Named A Must-Read Book of 2020 by Apartment Therapy • Runner-Up General Nonfiction: San Francisco Book Festival • A Planetizen Top Urban Planning Book of 2020 • Shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice “Tells the story of housing in all its complexity.” —NPR Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area, where fleets of private buses ferry software engineers past the tarp-and-plywood shanties of the homeless. The adage that California is a glimpse of the nation’s future has become a cautionary tale. With propulsive storytelling and ground-level reporting, New York Times journalist Conor Dougherty chronicles America’s housing crisis from its West Coast epicenter, peeling back the decades of history and economic forces that brought us here and taking readers inside the activist movements that have risen in tandem with housing costs.
Author : The Editors of Southern Living
Publisher : Time Home Entertainment
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-10
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9780848719326
The editors of Southern Living Magazine presents House Plans.
Author : Sears, Roebuck and Company
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1991-06-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780486267098
Excellent reproduction of rare catalog illustrates and describes 86 different types of houses and bungalows still in evidence across America. Over 300 photographs, illustrations and floor plans with full descriptions comprise an invaluable sourcebook for study, authentication or restoration of antique articles or architecture.
Author : Gil Schafer III
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : Stewart Brand
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995-10-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781101562642
Buildings have often been studies whole in space, but never before have they been studied whole in time. How Buildings Learn is a masterful new synthesis that proposes that buildings adapt best when constantly refined and reshaped by their occupants, and that architects can mature from being artists of space to becoming artists of time. From the connected farmhouses of New England to I.M. Pei's Media Lab, from "satisficing" to "form follows funding," from the evolution of bungalows to the invention of Santa Fe Style, from Low Road military surplus buildings to a High Road English classic like Chatsworth—this is a far-ranging survey of unexplored essential territory. More than any other human artifacts, buildings improve with time—if they're allowed to. How Buildings Learn shows how to work with time rather than against it.
Author : Charles S. Keefe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : UOM:39015026798556
Author : Better Homes and Gardens
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781328945006
Take a walk down memory lane with this 1950s decorating classic, re-released for a whole new generation The year is 1956. America is a mere decade past World War II. Richard Nixon is next in command to President Dwight Eisenhower, the Dow Jones soars above 500, and Norma Jean Mortenson legally changes her name to Marilyn Monroe. Two words described the decade, as John Updike wrote in the short story “When Everyone Was Pregnant”: Fear and gratitude. And during this boom period, grateful young families thrilled to find themselves homeowners after the uncertainty of the Great Depression followed by a second Great War. Those empty rooms needed filling in order to make the house a home, and homeowners turned to the iconic Better Homes and Gardens brand. Better Homes and Gardens Decorating Book, the first edition of a title that would spawn ten editions over the years, became the new home bible for injecting class, style (and the occasional misguided cowboy wallpaper) into American homes. While exploring numerous styles, the main theme of the book is the on-trend mid-century modern sensibility, a style as appropriate today as it was six decades ago when the book was initially released. Filled with hundreds of full-color period photos, dozens of adorable illustrations, and decorating tips and tricks that are both helpful and nostalgic, the book remains a fun classic. With this welcome hardcover release, reproduced exactly as it looked and read in the 1950s, everything old is new again.