Download or read book A Home for All written by Orson Squire Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Octagon House written by Orson Squire Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Octagon House written by Orson Fowler and published by A.R. Shephard. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-19th Century, America was host to a curious architectural trend: the octagonal house. Such eight-sided homes?as well as schools, churches, barns, and businesses?were popping up across the country so quickly that by 1857 over 1,000 had been built. Though the craze has long since subsided, the book that started it all remains a valuable and curious artifact of architectural history. A phrenologist by trade and eccentric Renaissance man by character, Orson S. Fowler, subscribed to the principle that form follows function in architecture years before the edict was popularized by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. For a multitude of reasons explored at length in these pages, Fowler determined that an octagonal house provides for the maximal utilization of space and resources like heat and water. Years ahead of his time with respect to his concerns about energy efficiency, Fowler includes plans that call for central heating, running water, and ?speaking tubes?. Modern readers will likely be amused by his short sermon on the potential benefits of an ?indoor water closet?. Though Fowler himself was never trained as an architect, he supports his assertions with strong reasoning and even includes plans and instructions for designing and constructing an octagon house. As the long-dormant octagonal home craze heats up once again, The Octagon House continues to be highly sought after for its creative architectural suggestions, and its cheerful, engaging, and quirky tone. True to character, Fowler folds a great deal of vivacious, offbeat commentary into this treatise on octagonal architecture. With plenty of sudden left turns and amusing anecdotes, this high-quality re-issue of 1848?s The Octagon House is sure to delight anyone who appreciates art, architecture, and curious minds.
Download or read book A Home for All the Gravel Wall and Octagon Mode of Building written by Orson S. Fowler and published by . This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1848, Orson Squire Fowler, published A Home for All, or a New, Cheap, Convenient, and Superior Mode of Building in which he announced that the octagon house with its eight sides enclosed more space than a square one with equal wall space. The octagonal form had been used in public buildings in the past, but now as a concept for domestic architecture it had a dedicated and convincing champion. Fowler's books, stressing the functional and stylistic advantages of the octagon house, found many readers and several hundred followers who sprinkled the landscape from New England to Wisconsin with eight-sided houses, barns, churches, schoolhouses, carriage houses, garden houses, smokehouses, and privies. Fowler's creative idea for an octagon house came to him while contemplating a design for his own home. He wondered why there had been so little advancement in architectural design, particularly given the preponderance of scientific advancements. Looking for a radical change in house style, Fowler questioned why the spherical form that is predominant in nature was not employed in architecture. The constraint of right angles for the framing of houses was the obvious reason. Fowler thought "Why not have our houses six-, eight-, 12-or 20-sided? Why not build after some mathematical figure?" The solution: the octagon. Since octagons enclose more floor space per linear foot than comparable squares or rectangles, Fowler claimed they cost less to build and reduced heat loss. He also insisted octagons allowed in more sunlight and had better ventilation than conventional houses; owners of these unusual homes found that the improved light and ventilation went into the triangular closets and pantriesthat occupied the octagons' angles.
Download or read book A Home for All Or The Gravel Wall and Octagon Mode of Building written by Orson Squire Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Building the Octagon written by Orlando Ridout and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Home for All Or The Gravel Wall and Octagon Mode of Building written by Orson Squire Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Octagon Buildings in New York State written by New York State Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Erie County Fair written by Martin Biniasz on behalf of the Erie County Agricultural Society and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its humble, pioneer beginnings to its current incarnation as the largest independent county fair in the United States, the Erie County Fair in Hamburg, New York, is a beloved western New York institution. Annually, over one million people flock to its historic fairgrounds located just south of Buffalo to celebrate agriculture, showcase time-honored traditions, keep the spirit of competition alive, and, most importantly, come together as a community. Through vintage photographs, Erie County Fair presents a visual narrative of the fair's history and stimulates cherished memories rooted in decades of excitement found at this annual summer gathering. The continuity of the American county fair spirit is most evident through these images from the archives of the Erie County Agricultural Society.
Download or read book The Armour Stiner Octagon House written by Joseph Pell Lombardi and published by . This book was released on 2020-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated history of The Armour-Stiner (Octagon) House, written by owner Joseph Pell Lombardi. Through a collection of images and an extensively researched history, Joseph Pell Lombardi provides a first-time, comprehensive narrative into the lyrical Armour-Stiner (Octagon) House and its significance. Unique-to-the world, this extraordinary home has an equally extraordinary story. Being a full account of a highly skilled professional conservation of an important monument, this beautiful book will appeal to all including architectural historians, preservationists, home restorers, and anyone interested in remarkable homes. An international architect, preservationist, recipient of numerous awards, and a worldwide lecturer, Joseph Pell Lombardi has conserved over 1,000 historic homes throughout the world during the past 50 years.
Download or read book A Home for All Or The Gravel Wall and Octagon Mode of Building written by Orson Squire Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil 200 600 written by Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the year 600, more than thirty dynasties, kingdoms, and states rose and fell on the eastern side of the Asian continent. The founders and rulers of those polities represented the spectrum of peoples in North, East, and Central Asia. Nearly all of them built palaces, altars, temples, tombs, and cities, and almost without exception, the architecture was grounded in the building tradition of China. Illustrated with more than 475 color and black-and-white photographs, maps, and drawings, Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil uses all available evidence—Chinese texts, secondary literature in six languages, excavation reports, and most important, physical remains—to present the architectural history of this tumultuous period in China’s history. Its author, Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt, arguably North America’s leading scholar of premodern Chinese architecture, has done field research at nearly every site mentioned, many of which were unknown twenty years ago and have never been described in a Western language. The physical remains are a handful of pagodas, dozens of cave-temples, thousands of tombs, small-scale evidence of architecture such as sarcophaguses, and countless representations of buildings in paint and relief sculpture. Together they narrate an expansive architectural history that offers the first in-depth study of the development, century-by-century, of Chinese architecture of third through the sixth centuries, plus a view of important buildings from the two hundred years before the third century and the resolution of architecture of this period in later construction. The subtext of this history is an examination of Chinese architecture that answers fundamental questions such as: What was achieved by a building system of standardized components? Why has this building tradition of perishable materials endured so long in China? Why did it have so much appeal to non-Chinese empire builders? Does contemporary architecture of Korea and Japan enhance our understanding of Chinese construction? How much of a role did Buddhism play in construction during the period under study? In answering these questions, the book focuses on the relation between cities and monuments and their heroic or powerful patrons, among them Cao Cao, Shi Hu, Empress Dowager Hu, Gao Huan, and lesser-known individuals. Specific and uniquely Chinese aspects of architecture are explained. The relevance of sweeping—and sometimes uncomfortable—concepts relevant to the Chinese architectural tradition such as colonialism, diffusionism, and the role of historical memory also resonate though the book.
Download or read book How to Architect written by Doug Patt and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-02-17 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basics of the profession and practice of architecture, presented in illustrated A-Z form. The word "architect" is a noun, but Doug Patt uses it as a verb—coining a term and making a point about using parts of speech and parts of buildings in new ways. Changing the function of a word, or a room, can produce surprise and meaning. In How to Architect, Patt—an architect and the creator of a series of wildly popular online videos about architecture—presents the basics of architecture in A-Z form, starting with "A is for Asymmetry" (as seen in Chartres Cathedral and Frank Gehry), detouring through "N is for Narrative," and ending with "Z is for Zeal" (a quality that successful architects tend to have, even in fiction—see The Fountainhead's architect-hero Howard Roark.) How to Architect is a book to guide you on the road to architecture. If you are just starting on that journey or thinking about becoming an architect, it is a place to begin. If you are already an architect and want to remind yourself of what drew you to the profession, it is a book of affirmation. And if you are just curious about what goes into the design and construction of buildings, this book tells you how architects think. Patt introduces each entry with a hand-drawn letter, and accompanies the text with illustrations that illuminate the concept discussed: a fallen Humpty Dumpty illustrates the perils of fragile egos; photographs of an X-Acto knife and other hand tools remind us of architecture's nondigital origins. How to Architect offers encouragement to aspiring architects but also mounts a defense of architecture as a profession—by calling out a defiant verb: architect!
Download or read book Architecture written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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