Unbuilt America
Author | : Alison Sky |
Publisher | : New York ; Montréal : McGraw-Hill |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Alison Sky |
Publisher | : New York ; Montréal : McGraw-Hill |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alison Sky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780896593411 |
Pictures and describes abandoned architectural projects, explaining why they did not materialize
Author | : Alison Sky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Steven Strom |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2010-02-15 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0292721137 |
Offers a fascinating look at what has been lost--and what might have been built--in Houston and sounds a call or preserve what is left of Houston's built heritage before more architectural treasures are lost forever.
Author | : Melvin H. Schuetz |
Publisher | : Universal-Publishers |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9781581128291 |
Chesley Bonestell has been called the "Father of Space Art." His photorealistic paintings of the Moon and planets, and other worlds beyond, have awed us since they were first published, over half a century ago. Moreover, he showed, long before Gagarin or Glenn, what it would be like for humans to explore the vastness of space. As author Howard E. McCurdy has written in his book, Space and the American Imagination: "No artist had more impact on the emerging popular culture of space in America than Chesley Bonestell. . . . Through his visual images, he stimulated the interest of a generation of Americans and showed how space travel would be accomplished." Considering his great influence on both the public interest in space flight and the actual development of a national space program, it is therefore both surprising and unfortunate that, heretofore, there has not been available a bibliography documenting those places where Bonestell's art appeared in print. This book fills that void. Written in cooperation with the artist's widow and his estate managers, A Chesley Bonestell Space Art Chronology contains well over 700 entries and is the definitive reference guide to publications containing Bonestell's space art. In praise of it, the illustrator Vincent Di Fate says: "This entertaining and scholarly work is an invaluable and indispensable treasure for the vast legions of Bonestell's fans. [T]houghtful, engrossing and utterly thorough . . . [it] provides the cosmic ride of a lifetime."
Author | : Roxanne Kuter Williamson |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2014-03-07 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0292762909 |
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 | : Mark Pimlott |
Publisher | : episode publishers |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9789059730342 |
Author | : Hanno-Walter Kruft |
Publisher | : Princeton Architectural Press |
Total Pages | : 802 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781568980102 |
As the first comprehensive encyclopedic survey of Western architectural theory from Vitruvius to the present, this book is an essential resource for architects, students, teachers, historians, and theorists. Using only original sources, Kruft has undertaken the monumental task of researching, organizing, and analyzing the significant statements put forth by architectural theorists over the last two thousand years. The result is a text that is authoritative and complete, easy to read without being reductive.
Author | : Jon Lang |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 461 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1351935232 |
A range of current approaches to architecture are neglected in our contemporary writings on design philosophies. This book argues that the model of 'function' and the concept of a 'functional building' that we have inherited from the twentieth-century Modernists is limited in scope and detracts from a full understanding of the purposes served by the built environment. It simply does not cover the range of functions that buildings can afford nor is it tied in a conceptually clear manner to our contemporary concepts of architectural theory. Based on Abraham Maslow's theory of human motivations, and following on from Lang's widely-used text, Creating Architectural Theory: The Role of the Behavioral Sciences in Environmental Design, Lang and Moleski here propose a new model of functionalism that responds to numerous observations on the inadequacy of current ways of thinking about functionalism in architecture and urban design. Copiously illustrated, the book puts forward this model and then goes on to discuss in detail each function of buildings and urban environments.
Author | : Douglas Tallack |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 467 |
Release | : 2014-07-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 131787059X |
The multi-volume Longman literature in English series aims to provide students of literature with a critical introduction to the major genres in their historical and cultural context. This book looks at cinema, painting and architecture in 20th-century America, as well as the culture of politics.