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Caribbean Modernist Architecture

Caribbean Modernist Architecture
Author: Gustavo Luis Moré
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2010
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780870707759

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In February and March 2008, the International Program and the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art organised the Museum's first symposium on the modernist architecture of the Caribbean and bordering Latin American countries, in collaboration with the Caribbean School of Architecture at the University of Technology, Kingston, Jamaica. The goal was to encourage scholarly, curatorial and broader educational awareness. Topics covered included regional and international legacies, preservation, environmental sustainability and urban planning, as they relate to modernist architectural history and contemporary practice. The presenters were leading architects and architectural historians from the region, and attendees included their colleagues as well as local and international university students, policy makers, civic leaders and developers from Jamaica, the surrounding Caribbean isalnds and the United States. This illustrated volume, co-published by MoMA and Archivos de Arquitectura Antillana (AAA), an architectural journal based in the Dominican Republic, presents the papers from this critical symposium in both English and Spanish, making them accessible to a broader public.


Mill Reef Style

Mill Reef Style
Author: Elizabeth Ballantine
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2012-01-16
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781586671266

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In 1946, Robertson Ward embarked on the Caribbean's most successful architectural endeavor: Mill Reef Club. At a time when images of nuclear war stalked the American imagination and architects were preoccupied with the grimmer strains of modernism—skyscrapers, airports, and bunkers—Ward rebelled, creating instead the Mill Reef Club. This book presents an illustrated study of his amazing vision.


Historic Architecture in the Caribbean Islands

Historic Architecture in the Caribbean Islands
Author: Edward E. Crain
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Total Pages: 531
Release: 2017-11-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1947372238

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The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic. They examine topics critical to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, and tourism. They look at the growth of Florida and the Caribbean and the attendant pressures on the environment, culture, urban development, and the movement of peoples, both forced and voluntary. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series gathers the rich data available in these architectural, archaeological, cultural, and historical works, as well as the travelogues and naturalists’ sketches of the area prior to the twentieth century, making it accessible for scholars and the general public alike. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series is made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, under the Humanities Open Books program.


Historic Architecture of the Caribbean

Historic Architecture of the Caribbean
Author: David Buisseret
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1980
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

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Architecture and Empire in Jamaica

Architecture and Empire in Jamaica
Author: Louis Nelson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2016-03-15
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0300214359

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Through Creole houses and merchant stores to sugar fields and boiling houses, Jamaica played a leading role in the formation of both the early modern Atlantic world and the British Empire. Architecture and Empire in Jamaica offers the first scholarly analysis of Jamaican architecture in the long 18th century, spanning roughly from the Port Royal earthquake of 1692 to Emancipation in 1838. In this richly illustrated study, which includes hundreds of the author’s own photographs and drawings, Louis P. Nelson examines surviving buildings and archival records to write a social history of architecture. Nelson begins with an overview of the architecture of the West African slave trade then moves to chapters framed around types of buildings and landscapes, including the Jamaican plantation landscape and fortified houses to the architecture of free blacks. He concludes with a consideration of Jamaican architecture in Britain. By connecting the architecture of the Caribbean first to West Africa and then to Britain, Nelson traces the flow of capital and makes explicit the material, economic, and political networks around the Atlantic.


Caribbean Houses

Caribbean Houses
Author: Michael Connors
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2009-09-22
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

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Caribbean Houses is a lavishly illustrated account of the development of historically significant houses in the West Indies. Author Michael Connors, a West Indian decorative arts scholar, examines venerable houses that remain as a testimony to the rich history and vibrant lifestyle that was, and continues to be, an important part of Caribbean culture. The book is divided into five chapters, one for each European heritage: the Spanish Antilles, the Dutch Leewards, the English Islands, the French Lesser Antilles, and the Danish Virgin Islands. An authoritative text sheds light on the area’s rich architectural and interior design history and gives the reader a unique view of houses that combine the tradition of European styles with the vernacular island forms and decorative motifs. The lavish new photography captures the stunning exteriors and provides a rare look into the interiors of these historic houses, with exotic tropical hardwoods, indigenous stone, and a blending of local crafts and handiwork with antiques and contemporary furnishings. With the disappearance of so much of the Caribbean’s historic domestic architecture, the colonial residences that still exist represent an important historical record of the Caribbean’s material culture.


Architectural Heritage of the Caribbean

Architectural Heritage of the Caribbean
Author: Andrew Gerald Gravette
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2000
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

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"Illustrated with colour plates and line drawings, Architectural Heritage of the Caribbean also traces the historical and economic developments which created the region's unique Creole styles. As governments and conservation societies look to the increasing potential of 'heritage tourism', this wide-ranging book provides an invaluable guide for visitors and students of architecture."--Jacket.