Download or read book Boston Architecture written by Donald Freeman and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1970 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally prepared to introduce Boston to the members of the American Institute of Architects meeting there in June 1970, this book now serves a wider purpose of presenting America's most architecturally interesting city to both architects and nonarchitects, whether in or not in Boston. Boston's architecture is marked by diversity and by a sometimes astonishing juxtaposition of styles, periods, and purposes. The work of H. H. Richardson stands its ground across the street from I. M. Pei's; Charles Bulfinch's State House (1795), at the summit of Beacon Hill, looks down on Paul Rudolph's state office buildings; the magnificent new City Hall is separated from Faneuil Hall only by Sam Adams (in bronze)&- and both equally well accommodate today's public debates, as one also did before the Revolution. Yet, in spite of this diversity, there are whole sections of the city that have their own unmistakable character&-a historic/architectural cohesion that immediately impresses itself on the mental map of those who pass through them. In picture and in text (which briefly recounts their history and prospects) some of the most important of these sections are exhibited and described. These are Beacon Hill, the Back Bay, the Fenway, the Central Business District (including the new Government Center), the Waterfront, the South End, Roxbury and Washington Park, and the city of Cambridge. Maps of these sections, pinpointing the buildings pictured, are also included.
Download or read book Heroic written by Mark Pasnik and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often problematically labeled as “Brutalist” architecture, the concrete buildings that transformed Boston during 1960s and 1970s were conceived with progressive-minded intentions by some of the world’s most influential designers, including Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, I. M. Pei, Henry Cobb, Araldo Cossutta, Gerhard Kallmann and Michael McKinnell, Paul Rudolph, Josep Lluís Sert, and The Architects Collaborative. As a worldwide phenomenon, building with concrete represents one of the major architectural movements of the postwar years, but in Boston it was deployed in more numerous and diverse civic, cultural, and academic projects than in any other major U.S. city. After decades of stagnation and corrupt leadership, public investment in Boston in the 1960s catalyzed enormous growth, resulting in a generation of bold buildings that shared a vocabulary of concrete modernism. The period from the 1960 arrival of Edward J. Logue as the powerful and often controversial director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority to the reopening of Quincy Market in 1976 saw Boston as an urban laboratory for the exploration of concrete’s structural and sculptural qualities. What emerged was a vision for the city’s widespread revitalization often referred to as the “New Boston.” Today, when concrete buildings across the nation are in danger of insensitive renovation or demolition, Heroic presents the concrete structures that defined Boston during this remarkable period—from the well-known (Boston City Hall, New England Aquarium, and cornerstones of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University) to the already lost (Mary Otis Stevens and Thomas F. McNulty’s concrete Lincoln House and Studio; Sert, Jackson & Associates’ Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School)—with hundreds of images; essays by architectural historians Joan Ockman, Lizabeth Cohen, Keith N. Morgan, and Douglass Shand-Tucci; and interviews with a number of the architects themselves. The product of 8 years of research and advocacy, Heroic surveys the intentions and aspirations of this period and considers anew its legacies—both troubled and inspired.
Download or read book Boston Architecture 1975 1990 written by Naomi Miller and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Architecture After Richardson written by Margaret Henderson Floyd and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-09 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Architectural Exhibition written by Boston Architectural Center and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing examples of english architecture and ornament (1928); ... examples of modern architecture (1929); ... examples of metal work (1930).
Download or read book Architecture and the Arts and Crafts Movement in Boston written by Maureen Meister and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2003 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H. Langford Warren (1857-1917) was an important link in the chain of individuals who contributed to the architectural practice, theories of design, and the teaching of architectural history in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. Best known in the Boston area, Warren first worked under the renowned architect Henry Hobson Richardson before establishing his own practice. Friends and colleagues during this period included Charles Eliot Norton, the noted art historian, and Harvard's Charles Herbert Moore, a leading Ruskinian painter. Hired by Harvard University in 1893, Warren developed its architectural curriculum. In 1897 he helped found Boston's Society of Arts and Crafts. At the time of his death in 1917, Warren was Dean of the School of Architecture at Harvard and President of the Society of Arts and Crafts. At the turn of the century, Warren's philosophical vision offered a conservative and ethnocentric perspective attractive to many Bostonians and to a significant segment of Americans nationwide. According to this view, English culture was the basis of American culture. Through his work at Harvard and in the Arts and Crafts movement, he articulated and promoted an aesthetic guided by an attachment to the past, and he encouraged his students at Harvard to revive and reinterpret English and Anglo-American models. Another characteristic of Warren's aesthetic was "restraint," a quality generally attributed to the region's Puritan settlers. "Restraint" also meant a rejection of both the lavish ornamentation of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the more original styles such as Art Nouveau that were emerging at the turn of the century. Following the ideals of John Ruskin, William Morris, and later leaders of the English Arts and Crafts movement, Warren and his architect-colleagues promoted a close collaboration with the craftsmen who enhanced their buildings. The resulting building designs represent a significant contribution to the development of American Arts and Crafts architecture, complementing the proto-modern work of designers such as Frank Lloyd Wright. In fact, Arts and Crafts architecture in North America was extremely diverse. Meister examines the greater complexity of this architecture by exploring the eclectic historicism of Warren, a key figure in the movement that was centered in Boston.
Download or read book The Year Book of the Boston Architectural Club written by Boston Architectural Center and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing examples of english architecture and ornament (1928); ... examples of modern architecture (1929); ... examples of metal work (1930).
Download or read book New Architecture in Boston written by Joan E. Goody and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1965 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Concrete Changes written by Brian M. Sirman and published by Bright Leaf. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1950s to the end of the twentieth century, Boston transformed from a city in freefall into a thriving metropolis, as modern glass skyscrapers sprouted up in the midst of iconic brick rowhouses. After decades of corruption and graft, a new generation of politicians swept into office, seeking to revitalize Boston through large-scale urban renewal projects. The most important of these was a new city hall, which they hoped would project a bold vision of civic participation. The massive Brutalist building that was unveiled in 1962 stands apart -- emblematic of the city's rebirth through avant-garde design. And yet Boston City Hall frequently ranks among the country's ugliest buildings. Concrete Changes seeks to answer a common question for contemporary viewers: How did this happen? In a lively narrative filled with big personalities and newspaper accounts, Brian M. Sirman argues that this structure is more than a symbol of Boston's modernization; it acted as a catalyst for political, social, and economic change.
Download or read book Ralph Adams Cram An architect s four quests medieval modernist American ecumenical written by Douglass Shand-Tucci and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following in the footsteps of Boston Bohemia, 1881-1900, Douglass Shand-Tucci's widely praised portrait of Ralph Adams Cram's early years, this volume tells the story of Cram's later career as one of America's leading cultural figures and most accomplished architects. With his partner Bertram Goodhue, Cram won a number of important commissions, beginning with the West Point competition in 1903. Although an increasingly bitter rivalry with Goodhue would lead to the dissolution of their partnership in 1912, Cram had already begun to strike out on his own. Supervising architect at Princeton, consulting architect at Wellesley, and head of the MIT School of Architecture, he would also design most of New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine and the campus of Rice University, as well as important church and collegiate structures throughout the country. By the 1920s Cram had become a household name, even appearing on the cover of Time magazine. A complex man, Cram was a leading figure in what Shand-Tucci calls "a full-fledged homosexual monastery" in England, while at the same time married to Elizabeth Read. Their relationship was a complicated one, the effect of which on his children and his career is explored fully in this book. So too is his work as a religious leader and social theorist. Shand-Tucci traces the influence on Cram of such disparate figures as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Phillips Brooks, Henry Adams, and Ayn Rand. He divides Cram's career into four lifelong "quests" medieval, modernist, American, and ecumenical. Some quests may have failed, but in each he left a considerable legacy, ultimately transforming the visual image of American Christianity in the twentieth century. Handsomely illustrated with over 130 photographs and drawings and eight pages of color plates, Ralph Adams Cram can be read on its own or in conjunction with Boston Bohemia, 1881-1900. Together, the two volumes complete what the Christian Century has described as a "superbly researched and captivating biography."
Download or read book Boston Architectural Club Year Book written by Boston Architectural Club and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A catalogue containing reproductions from the annual exhibition held in the Boston City and from the various exhibitions held in the Boston Architectural Club.
Download or read book Towards a Robotic Architecture written by Mahesh Daas and published by Applied Research and Design Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past decade's surge towards more computationally defined building systems and highly adaptable open-source design software has left the field ripe for the integration of robotics whether through large-scale building fabrication or through more intelligent/adaptive building systems. Through this surge, architecture has not only been greatly influenced by these emerging technologies, but has also begun influencing other disciplines in unexpected ways. The purpose of this book is to provide systems of classification, categorisation, and taxonomies of robotics in architecture so that a more systematic and holistic body of work could take place while addressing the multifarious aspects of possible research and production.
Download or read book Year Book of the Boston Architectural Club written by Boston Architectural Club and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in volumes for 1890, 1891, 1895, 1902, 1904, 1906, 1908.
Download or read book Boston Architectural Club Year Book written by Boston Architectural Center and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Current Architecture written by Architectural Club (Boston, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The A I A Guide to Boston written by Michael Southworth and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best of its kind in this continent - TIME Magazine. 'Anecdotes expand on purely architectural considerations to lend a lively air to the sights' - ALA Booklist
Download or read book Historic Buildings of Boston written by Scott Clowney and published by Commonwealth Editions. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this follow-up book to Historic Buildings of Washington, D.C., author and artist Scott Clowney highlights, through beautifully detailed line drawings, iconic buildings and buildings off the beaten path that give shape to historic Boston, capital city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and largest city in New England. Accompanied by informative descriptions, buildings include Boston City Hall, Burrage Mansion, Faneuil Hall Marketplace, Old North Church, and the Paul Revere House, among others. Reimagine these architectural landmarks with crayons, colored pencils, pens, and markers. Make a mark with your own colorful and creative expression!
