Download or read book Architecture Ambition and Americans written by Wayne Andrews and published by New York : Free Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Architecture Ambition and Americans written by Wayne Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Architecture Ambition and Americans written by Wayne Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Visual Dictionary of American Domestic Architecture written by Rachel Carley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-03-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visual presentation of the many types of houses built in America from the earliest Indian dwellings to designs for futuristic homes.
Download or read book America Builds written by Leland M. Roth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture requires a broad definition. It involves more than simply questions of style, esoteric theory, or technical progress; it is the physical record of a culture's relationship to its technology and the land, and, most important, of the system of values concerning men's relationships with one another. Hence this volume, like my Concise Hist
Download or read book A History of American Architecture written by Mark Gelernter and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did the colonial Americans give over a significant part of their homes to a grand staircase? Why did the Victorians drape their buildings ornate decoration? And why did American buildings grow so tall in the last decades of the 19th century. This book explores the history of American architecture from prehistoric times to the present, explaining why characteristic architectural forms arose at particular times and in particular places.
Download or read book The Strip written by Stefan Al and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transformations of the Strip—from the fake Wild West to neon signs twenty stories high to “starchitecture”—and how they mirror America itself. The Las Vegas Strip has impersonated the Wild West, with saloon doors and wagon wheels; it has decked itself out in midcentury modern sleekness. It has illuminated itself with twenty-story-high neon signs, then junked them. After that came Disney-like theme parks featuring castles and pirates, followed by replicas of Venetian canals, New York skyscrapers, and the Eiffel Tower. (It might be noted that forty-two million people visited Las Vegas in 2015—ten million more than visited the real Paris.) More recently, the Strip decided to get classy, with casinos designed by famous architects and zillion-dollar collections of art. Las Vegas became the “implosion capital of the world” as developers, driven by competition, got rid of the old to make way for the new—offering a non-metaphorical definition of “creative destruction.” In The Strip, Stefan Al examines the many transformations of the Las Vegas Strip, arguing that they mirror transformations in America itself. The Strip is not, as popularly supposed, a display of architectural freaks but representative of architectural trends and a record of social, cultural, and economic change. Al tells two parallel stories. He describes the feverish competition of Las Vegas developers to build the snazziest, most tourist-grabbing casinos and resorts—with a cast of characters including the mobster Bugsy Siegel, the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, and the would-be political kingmaker Sheldon Adelson. And he views the Strip in a larger social context, showing that it has not only reflected trends but also magnified them and sometimes even initiated them. Generously illustrated with stunning color images throughout, The Strip traces the many metamorphoses of a city that offers a vivid projection of the American dream.
Download or read book American Architect written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Architecture in New York written by Wayne Andrews and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1995-03-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the many photographs magnificently reproduced in this collection, Andrews has captured the incredible range of the architecture of New York State, from Manhattan Island to Chautauqua County. Something of the scope of this work is indicated by the fact that A. J. Davis, Richard Upjohn, James Renwick, Richard M. Hunt, Henry Hardenbergh, Daniel Burnham, Carrere & Hastings, Cass Gilbert, John Russell Pope, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, Marcel Breuer, Eliel Saarincn, and Paul Rudolph are among the architects whose works are illustrated.
Download or read book Shaping a Nation written by Carter Wiseman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The critic and historian presents an account of the most influential figures, movements, and buildings that have defined twentieth-century American architecture.
Download or read book The Architecture of Happiness written by Alain De Botton and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2010-12-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Alain de Botton considers how our private homes and public edifices influence how we feel, and how we could build dwellings in which we would stand a better chance of happiness. In this witty, erudite look at how we shape, and are shaped by, our surroundings, Alain de Botton applies Stendhal’s motto that “Beauty is the promise of happiness” to the spaces we inhabit daily. Why should we pay attention to what architecture has to say to us? de Botton asks provocatively. With his trademark lucidity and humour, de Botton traces how human needs and desires have been served by styles of architecture, from stately Classical to minimalist Modern, arguing that the stylistic choices of a society can represent both its cherished ideals and the qualities it desperately lacks. On an individual level, de Botton has deep sympathy for our need to see our selves reflected in our surroundings; he demonstrates with great wisdom how buildings — just like friends — can serve as guardians of our identity. Worrying about the shape of our sofa or the colour of our walls might seem self-indulgent, but de Botton considers the hopes and fears we have for our homes at a new level of depth and insight. When shopping for furniture or remodelling the kitchen, we don’t just consider functionality but also the major questions of aesthetics and the philosophy of art: What is beauty? Can beautiful surroundings make us good? Can beauty bring happiness? The buildings we find beautiful, de Botton concludes, are those that represent our ideas of a meaningful life. The Architecture of Happiness marks a return to what Alain does best — taking on a subject whose allure is at once tantalizing and a little forbidding and offering to readers a completely beguiling and original exploration of the subject. As he did with Proust, philosophy, and travel, now he does with architecture.
Download or read book American Architectural History written by Keith Eggener and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering some 30 essays, this volume concentrates on recent writings by historians of American architecture & urbanism. The essays are arranged chronologically from colonial to contemporary & accessible in thematic groupings.
Download or read book World of Art Series American Architecture 2e written by David Handlin and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2004-01-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America has always presented a unique challenge to architects: should they emulate the Old World or respond to the demands of the New? David Handlin tells the complex story with lucidity and insight. Almost from its seventeenth-century beginnings, American architecture was subject to two apparently contradictory processesthe practical and the grandiose. The first comes through in the vernacular buildings of rural America, the innovations of Jefferson, Bulfinch's fine civic buildings, the offices and factories of the Industrial Age, and the comfortable domestic tradition that lies behind the houses of the Greene Brothers and Frank Lloyd Wright. The second is seen in the unprecedented daring of the Chicago Schoolgreat engineers like Adler united with great designers like Sullivan; in the majestic state capitols, exhibition halls, and public buildings by firms such as McKim, Mead & White; in the luxury of Fifth Avenue mansions; and in the exuberance of commercial Manhattan.The revised edition ends with a lively account of recent developmentsvirtual architecture, the revival of historical styles (including modernism), the thirst for striking originality, and a new interest in the local, with figures including Stern, Meier, Gehry, and Mockbee. 264 illustrations.
Download or read book American Architecture a Critical History written by David P. Handlin and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of American Architecture written by Mark Gelernter and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history of American architecture, from the first civilizations in America to the present.
Download or read book A Concise History of American Architecture written by Leland M. Roth and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1979 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the factors and influences that have enriched American architecture throughout its development from colonial times to the present, covering houses, apartments, factories, and office buildings and the architects who designed them.
Download or read book A Concise History Of American Architecture written by Leland Roth and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1980-10-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 0-06-430158-3 Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, and Meaning
