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Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1972 |
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Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Author | : Stephen Fox |
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Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Author | : Stephen Fox |
Publisher | : Herring Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 1972 |
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Author | : Ellen Beasley |
Publisher | : Galveston Historical Foundation |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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The Galveston Architecture Guidebook will be invaluable to all those who visit Galveston. Historic preservationists, scholars of nineteenth-century material culture, architects, and historians will be fascinated by the broad range of buildings and urban conditions it documents. Finally, anyone interested in Galveston or the Gulf Coast will find in this book a wealth of information.
Author | : Eric J. Hill |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780814331200 |
A beautifully designed resource that takes readers on a tour of greater Detroit's many architectural wonders and special landmarks.
Author | : Gerald W. Sams |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780820314396 |
This lively guidebook surveys four hundred buildings within the Atlanta metropolitan area--from the sleek marble and glass of the Coca-Cola Tower to the lancet arches and onion domes of the Fox Theater, from the quiet stateliness of Roswell's antebellum mansions to the art-deco charms of the Varsity grill. Published in conjunction with the Atlanta chapter of the American Institute of Architects, it combines historical, descriptive, and critical commentary with more than 250 photographs and area maps. As the book makes clear, Atlanta has two faces: the "Traditional City," striving to strike a balance between the preservation of a valuable past and the challenge of modernization, and also the "Invisible Metropolis," a decentralized city shaped more by the isolated ventures of private business than by public intervention. Accordingly, the city's architecture reflects a dichotomy between the northern-emulating boosterism that made Atlanta a boom town and the genteel aesthetic more characteristic of its southern locale. The city's recent development continues the trend; as Atlanta's workplaces become increasingly "high-tech," its residential areas remain resolutely traditional. In the book's opening section, Dana White places the different stages of Atlanta's growth--from its beginnings as a railroad town to its recent selection as the site of the 1996 Summer Olympics--in their social, cultural, and economic context; Isabelle Gournay then analyzes the major urban and architectural trends from a critical perspective. The main body of the book consists of more than twenty architectural tours organized according to neighborhoods or districts such as Midtown, Druid Hills, West End, Ansley Park, and Buckhead. The buildings described and pictured capture the full range of architectural styles found in the city. Here are the prominent new buildings that have transformed Atlanta's skyline and neighborhoods: Philip John and John Burgee's revivalist IBM Tower, John Portman's taut Westin Peachtree Plaza, and Richard Meier's gleaming, white-paneled High Museum of Art, among others. Here too are landmarks from another era, such as the elegant residences designed in the early twentieth century by Neel Reid and Philip Shutze, two of the first Atlanta-based architects to achieve national prominence. Included as well are the eclectic skyscrapers near Five Points, the postmodern office clusters along Interstate 285, and the Victorian homes of Inman Park. Easy-to-follow area maps complement the descriptive entries and photographs; a bibliography, glossary, and indexes to buildings and architects round out the book. Whether first-time visitors or lifelong residents, readers will find in these pages a wealth of fascinating information about Atlanta's built environment.
Author | : Barrie Scardino Bradley |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2023-11-15 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1477329978 |
Complex, controversial, and prolific, Howard Barnstone was a central figure in the world of twentieth-century modern architecture. Recognized as Houston’s foremost modern architect in the 1950s, Barnstone came to prominence for his designs with partner Preston M. Bolton, which transposed the rigorous and austere architectural practices of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to the hot, steamy coastal plain of Texas. Barnstone was a man of contradictions—charming and witty but also self-centered, caustic, and abusive—who shaped new settings that were imbued, at once, with spatial calm and emotional intensity. Making Houston Modern explores the provocative architect’s life and work, not only through the lens of his architectural practice but also by delving into his personal life, class identity, and connections to the artists, critics, collectors, and museum directors who forged Houston’s distinctive culture in the postwar era. Edited by three renowned voices in the architecture world, this volume situates Barnstone within the contexts of American architecture, modernism, and Jewish culture to unravel the legacy of a charismatic personality whose imaginative work as an architect, author, teacher, and civic commentator helped redefine architecture in Texas.
Author | : Yolita Schmidt |
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Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Architecture, Modern |
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Author | : Terry G. Jordan |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2010-07-05 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0292788444 |
Once too numerous to attract attention, the log buildings of Texas now stand out for their rustic beauty. This book preserves a record of the log houses, stores, inns, churches, schools, jails, and barns that have already become all too few in the Texas countryside. Terry Jordan explores the use of log buildings among several different Texas cultural groups and traces their construction techniques from their European and eastern American origins.