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Author : James F. O'Gorman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1992-09-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0226620727
''Discusses the individual and collective achievement of the three American architects.''--
Author : James F. O'Gorman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1991-04-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0226620719
O'Gorman discusses the individual and collective achievement of the recognized trinity of American architecture: Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-86), Louis Sullivan (1856-1924), and Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959). He traces the evolution of forms created during these architects' careers, emphasizing the interrelationships among them and focusing on the designs and executed buildings that demonstrate those interrelationships. O'Gorman also shows how each envisioned the building types demanded by the growth of nineteenth-century cities and suburbs—the downtown skyscraper and the single-family home. [A] brilliant analysis . . . a major contribution to our understanding of the beginnings of modern American architecture."—David Hamilton Eddy, Times Higher Education Supplement.
Author : Joseph Jacobs Thorndike
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Architects
ISBN : UOM:39015006331741
Profusely illustrated text describes the personalities and architectural achievements of major American architects of the past and present.
Author : Robert Sharoff
Publisher : Images Publishing
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781864704297
St. Louis is one of the most architecturally impressive cities in the United States, with a heritage of innovative design stretching back to the early 1800s. This is reflected in the architecture of the downtown area and surrounding neighborhoods. More than just about any city in America, St. Louis embraced the imposing forms and lush ornamentation of the Beaux Arts tradition. Indeed, one can make the argument that only Washington, D.C. in the United States has a more impressive collection of classically inspired structures. American City: St. Louis Architecture is the first large-format book on the city's architecture since the 1920s, and includes over 100 new color photographs and text for 50 of the city's most important structures. These range from such 19th Century masterpieces as Louis Sullivan's Wainwright Building, Alfred Mullet's Old Post Office and Theodore Link's Union Station, to Eero Saarinen's Gateway Arch, Tadao Andao's Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts Building and Maya Lin's recently completed Ellen Clark Hope Plaza.
Author : Hugh Howard
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780789339799
This is the first volume to include all of the existing work by Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States and the father of American architecture. Along with his numerous political achievements, Thomas Jefferson was also the first great architect of the United States. The Jeffersonian Classical style has been so influential that along with Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson, Jefferson is one of the three most recognized architects in American History.
Author : Roxanne Kuter Williamson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780292762909
Why does one talented individual win lasting recognition in a particular field, while another equally talented person does not? While there are many possible reasons, one obvious answer is that something more than talent is requisite to produce fame. The "something more" in the field of architecture, asserts Roxanne Williamson, is the association with a "famous" architect at the moment he or she first receives major publicity or designs the building for which he or she will eventually be celebrated. In this study of more than six hundred American architects who have achieved a place in architectural histories, Williamson finds that only a small minority do not fit the "right person–right time" pattern. She traces the apprenticeship connection in case studies of Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Henry Hobson Richardson, the firm of McKim, Mead & White, Latrobe and his descendants, the Bulfinch and Renwick Lines, the European immigrant masters, and Louis Kahn. Although she acknowledges and discusses the importance of family connections, the right schools, self-promotion, scholarships, design competition awards, and promotion by important journals, Williamson maintains that the apprenticeship connection is the single most important predictor of architectural fame. She offers the intriguing hypothesis that what is transferred in the relationship is not a particular style or approach but rather the courage and self-confidence to be true to one's own vision. Perhaps, she says, this is the case in all the arts. American Architects and the Mechanics of Fame is sure to provoke thought and comment in architecture and other creative fields.
Author : Joan Ockman
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262017084
The first comprehensive history of architecture education in North America, offering a chronological overview and a topical lexicon. Rooted in the British apprenticeship system, the French Beaux-Arts, and the German polytechnical schools, architecture education in North America has had a unique history spanning almost three hundred years. Although architects in the United States and Canada began to identify themselves as professionals by the late eighteenth century, it was not until nearly a century later that North American universities began to offer formal architectural training; the first program was established at MIT in 1865. Today most architects receive their training within an academic setting that draws on the humanities, fine arts, applied science, and public service for its philosophy and methodology. This book, published in conjunction with the centennial of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), provides the first comprehensive history of North American architecture education. Architecture School opens with six chronological essays, each devoted to a major period of development: before 1860; 1860–1920; 1920–1940; 1940–1968; 1968–1990; and 1990 to the present. This overview is followed by a “lexicon” containing shorter articles on more than two dozen topics that have figured centrally in archictecture education's history, from competitions and design pedagogy to research, structures, studio culture, and travel.
Author : John J. G. Blumenson
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0761991433
Have you ever been intrigued by a beautiful building and wondered when it was built? Identifying American Architecture provides the answer to such questions in a concise handbook perfect for preservationists, architects, students, and tourists alike. With 214 photographs, it allows readers to associate real buildings with architectural styles, elements, and orders. Identifying American Architecture was designed to be used--carried about and kept handy for frequent reference. Every photograph is keyed to an explanatory legend pointing out characteristic features of each building's style. Trade bookstores order from W.W. Norton, NY
Author : Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781483135373
Letters to Architects presents letters addressed to architects practicing throughout the world, many of them contemporaries with Frank Lloyd Wright during the first half of the twentieth century. Taken as a whole, this selection of letters aims at revealing an underlying unity of purpose: the growth of his work and the unquestionable magnitude of influence it engendered in the world of architecture. The letters are organized into five sections. Section One presents the first publication ever to be made of the letters between Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis H. Sullivan. Section Two traces Wright's concern, through letters addressed to both European and American architects, that his work be understood as the cornerstone of an American Culture. In Section Three, correspondence has been selected to include three specific persons: Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Lewis Mumford, and Howard Myers. These men offered Wright a special forum from which he could speak to the profession as a whole, most particularly through the medium of publication. Section Four narrates, by means of letters to various architects concerned with the assembling and exhibition of the largest one man architectural exhibition ever to be produced, the details, trials, problems, and results of such a large undertaking. Section Five recounts the honors bestowed on Frank Lloyd Wright first in England, in 1941, and then in his own country, in 1949. It shows his concern for the profession of architecture in the moving address he gave at the occasion of his receiving the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects.
Author : Margaret Henderson Floyd
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1994-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0226254100
Over the years, their commissions included scores of city and country residences for the elite of both regions as well as major institutional and business buildings such as those at Harvard and Radcliffe, the Cambridge City Hall, and Pittsburgh's Duquesne Club and Carnegie Institute.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X001788848
Author : Chester Liebs
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1995-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0801850959
"Traces the transformation of commercial development as it has moved from centralized main streets, out along the street car lines, to form the "miracle miles" and shopping malls of today ... Also explores the evolution of roadside buildings."--Back cover.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X001788876
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UFL:31262043711018
Author : Vincent Scully
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781595341808
A classic book authored by the foremost architectural historian in America, this fully illustrated history of American architecture and city planning is based on Vincent Scully's conviction that architecture and city planning are inseparably linked and must therefore be treated together. He defines architecture as a continuing dialogue between generations which creates an environment across time. This definitive survey extends beyond the cities themselves to the American scene as a whole, which has inspired the reasonable balanced, closed and ordered forms, and above all the probity, that he feels typifies American architecture.