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Author | : Vincent Scully |
Publisher | : Trinity University Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2013-04-29 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1595341803 |
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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.
Author | : Vincent Scully |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781595341518 |
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"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. "--
Author | : Keith Eggener |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780415306959 |
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This book presents a collection of recent writings on architecture and urbanism in the United States, with topics ranging from colonial to contemporary times.
Author | : Mario Gandelsonas |
Publisher | : Princeton Architectural Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : City planning |
ISBN | : 1568981511 |
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Examines configurations of urban space, analyzing them in ways that blur the traditional opposition between figure and ground.
Author | : Mark Gelernter |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780719047275 |
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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 | : Vincent Scully (Jr.) |
Publisher | : Rizzoli International Publications |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
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A charming book. Little text; hundreds of renderings and photos. Cloth edition ($25) not seen. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Clare Cardinal-Pett |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 555 |
Release | : 2015-11-19 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1317431251 |
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A History of Architecture and Urbanism in the Americas is the first comprehensive survey to narrate the urbanization of the Western Hemisphere, from the Arctic Circle to Antarctica, making it a vital resource to help you understand the built environment in this part of the world. The book combines the latest scholarship about the indigenous past with an environmental history approach covering issues of climate, geology, and biology, so that you'll see the relationship between urban and rural in a new, more inclusive way. Author Clare Cardinal-Pett tells the story chronologically, from the earliest-known human migrations into the Americas to the 1930s to reveal information and insights that weave across time and place so that you can develop a complex and nuanced understanding of human-made landscape forms, patterns of urbanization, and associated building typologies. Each chapter addresses developments throughout the hemisphere and includes information from various disciplines, original artwork, and historical photographs of everyday life, which - along with numerous maps, diagrams, and traditional building photographs - will train your eye to see the built environment as you read about it.
Author | : John A. Dutton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
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This book reviews the recent resurgence of town and urban design in America, with particular attention to the return to traditional forms of urbanism and building conventions.
Author | : Catherine W. Bishir |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780813925394 |
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"Jacob W. Holt, An American Builder"; "Good and Sufficient Language for Building"; "Black Builders in Antebellum North Carolina"; "Mr. Jones Goes to Richmond: A Note on the Influence of Alexander Parris's Wickham House"; "Philadelphia Bricks for New Bern Jail"; "'Severe Survitude to House Building': The Construction of Hayes Plantation House, 1814-17"; "The Montmorenci--Prospect Hill School: A Study of High-Style Vernacular Architecture in the Roanoke Valley"; "The 'Unpainted Aristocracy': The Beach Cottages of Old Nags Head"; "'A Strong Force of Ladies': Women, Politics, and Confederate Memorial Associations in Nineteenth-Century Raleigh"; "Landmarks of Power: Building a Southern Past, 1885-1915"; "Looking at North Carolina's History Through Architecture"; "Yuppies and Bubbas and the Politics of Culture in Historic Preservation"
Author | : Justin McGuirk |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2015-10-13 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1781688680 |
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What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city? In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and alternative communities already answering these questions. From Brazil to Venezuela, and from Mexico to Argentina, McGuirk discovers the people and ideas shaping the way cities are evolving. Ever since the mid twentieth century, when the dream of modernist utopia went to Latin America to die, the continent has been a testing ground for exciting new conceptions of the city. An architect in Chile has designed a form of social housing where only half of the house is built, allowing the owners to adapt the rest; Medellín, formerly the world’s murder capital, has been transformed with innovative public architecture; squatters in Caracas have taken over the forty-five-story Torre David skyscraper; and Rio is on a mission to incorporate its favelas into the rest of the city. Here, in the most urbanised continent on the planet, extreme cities have bred extreme conditions, from vast housing estates to sprawling slums. But after decades of social and political failure, a new generation has revitalised architecture and urban design in order to address persistent poverty and inequality. Together, these activists, pragmatists and social idealists are performing bold experiments that the rest of the world may learn from. Radical Cities is a colorful journey through Latin America—a crucible of architectural and urban innovation.