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Book Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals  2d Ed   Rev  and Enl

Download or read book Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals 2d Ed Rev and Enl written by Avery Library and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Italian Gardens

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles Adams Platt
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1893
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Italian Gardens written by Charles Adams Platt and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Frank Lloyd Wright

Download or read book Frank Lloyd Wright written by Barry Bergdoll and published by Moma. This book was released on 2017 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in conjunction with a major exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this catalogue reveals new perspectives on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, a designer so prolific and familiar as to nearly preclude critical reexamination. Structured as a series of inquiries into the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives, the book is a collection of scholarly explorations rather than an attempt to construct a master narrative. Each chapter centers on a key object from the archive that an invited author has "unpacked"-interpreting and contextualizing it, tracing its meanings and connections, and juxtaposing it with other works from the archive, from MoMA, or from outside collections. The publication aims to open up Wright's work to questions, interrogations, and debates, and to highlight interpretations by contemporary scholars, both established Wright experts and others considering this iconic figure from new and illuminating perspectives.

Book Preservation and the New Data Landscape

Download or read book Preservation and the New Data Landscape written by Erica Avrami and published by Issues in Preservation Policy. This book was released on 2019 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how enhancing the collection, accuracy, and management of data can aid in identifying vulnerable neighborhoods, understanding the role of older buildings, and planning sustainable growth. For preservation to play a dynamic and inclusive role, policy must evolve beyond designation and regulation and use evidence-based research.

Book Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings

Download or read book Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings written by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 1996-09-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sebastiano Serlio on Architecture

Download or read book Sebastiano Serlio on Architecture written by Sebastiano Serlio and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Preservation and Social Inclusion

    Book Details:
  • Author : Erica Avrami
  • Publisher : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City
  • Release : 2020-03-15
  • ISBN : 9781941332603
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Preservation and Social Inclusion written by Erica Avrami and published by Columbia Books on Architecture and the City. This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of historic preservation is becoming more socially and culturally inclusive, through more diversity in the profession and enhanced community engagement. Bringing together a broad range of practitioners, this book documents historic preservation's progress toward inclusivity and explores further steps to be taken.

Book Condemned Buildings

    Book Details:
  • Author : Douglas Darden
  • Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780910413633
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book Condemned Buildings written by Douglas Darden and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Condemned Building is one of our most requested out-of-print books, so we've done a special limited edition reprint (only 750 copies) to meet the ongoing demand for this book. Not long after this book was published, the only one on the work of this gifted architect and delineator, Doug died of leukemia. Fans and friends, including legions of students, quickly bought up the remaining copies, and the difficulty of finding this book has undoubtedly only increased its appeal. Doug said that these projects were "the underbelly of canonical architectural principles and forms", and indeed many are dark, brooding, or sexual in nature: a "kamasutra with the negative." The book covers ten projects, in model, drawing, and "psychoanalytical" text. Douglas Darden taught at Harvard, Columbia, and most recently the University of Colorado at Denver. He was a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. He is sorely missed, but we're happy to be able to offer his book once again.

Book Rules and Examples of Perspective Proper for Painters and Architects

Download or read book Rules and Examples of Perspective Proper for Painters and Architects written by Andrea Pozzo and published by Hansebooks. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rules and Examples of Perspective Proper for Painters and Architects - in English and Latin: containing a most easie and expeditious method to delineate in perspective all designs relating to architecture is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1693. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Book Architecture Is All Over

Download or read book Architecture Is All Over written by Esther Choi and published by . This book was released on 2014-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the comprehensive scale of the city to the small scale of the installation, Architecture Is All Over responds to the field's dichotomous conditions of monumentality and invisibility. Structured as an unfolding spectrum that ranges from obsolescence to pervasiveness, this twenty-contributor collection assembles recent and historical evidence of the discipline's "all over-ness." The title's double entendre celebrates the enduring instability, unpredictability and mutability that form architecture's motive core. In conversations, speculations and case studies, Architecture Is All Over refuses the easy figment of crisis to narrate new possibilities for design theory and praxis.

Book Immigrant Architect  Rafael Guastavino and the American Dream  The History Makers Series

Download or read book Immigrant Architect Rafael Guastavino and the American Dream The History Makers Series written by Berta de Miguel and published by Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Booklist Starred Review Named to the 2022 Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List The Spanish architects Rafael Guastavino Sr. and hisson, Rafael Guastavino Jr., designed more than one thousand iconic spaces across New York City and the United States, such as the New York City Hall Subway Station (still a tourist destination though no longer active), the Manhattan Federal Reserve Bank, the Nebraska State Capitol, the Great Hall of Ellis Island, the Oyster bar at Grand Central Terminal in New York, the Elephant House at the Bronx Zoo, the soaring tiled vaults under the Queensboro Bridge, the central dome of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, and the Boston Public Library. Written in the voice of the son, who was eight years old in 1881 when he immigrated to America with his father, this is their story. Rafael Guastavino Sr. was 39 when he left a successful career as an architect in Barcelona. American cities—densely packed and built largely of wood—were experiencing horrific fires, and Guastavino had the solution: The soaring interior spaces created by his tiled vaults and domes made buildings sturdier, fireproof, and beautiful. What he didn’t have was fluent English. Unable to win design commissions, he transferred control of the company to his American-educated son, whose subsequent half-century of inspired design work resulted in major contributions to the built environment of America. Immigrant Architect is an introduction to architectural concepts and a timely reminder of immigrant contributions to America. The book includes four route maps for visiting Guastavino-designed spaces in New York City: uptown, midtown, downtown, and Prospect Park.

Book Mastering McKim s Plan

Download or read book Mastering McKim s Plan written by Barry Bergdoll and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume charts the architectural trajectory of Columbia University in New York City and celebrates the centennial of architect Charles Follen McKim's enduring vision of a spatially unified, architecturally integrated urban university.

Book A Guide to American Trade Catalogs  1744 1900

Download or read book A Guide to American Trade Catalogs 1744 1900 written by Lawrence B. Romaine and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invaluable listing of rare catalogs selling cars, beekeeper's equipment, clocks, firearms, livestock, clothes, toys, more. Cites catalog's location, size, more.

Book Paths to Prison

    Book Details:
  • Author : Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-09
  • ISBN : 9781941332665
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Paths to Prison written by Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paths to Prison aims to expand the ways the built environment's relationship to and participation in the carceral state is understood in architecture. The collected essays implicate architecture in the more longstanding and pervasive legacies of racialized coercion in the United States.

Book The Architecture of Diplomacy

Download or read book The Architecture of Diplomacy written by Jane C. Loeffler and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1998-07 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Architecture of Diplomacy reveals the complex interplay of architecture, politics, and power in the history of America's embassy-building program. Through colorful personalities, bizarre episodes, and high drama this compelling story takes readers from scandalous "inspection" junkets by members of Congress to bugged offices at the Moscow embassy to the daring rescue of American personnel in Somalia by Marines and Navy Seals. Rigorously researched and lucidly written, The Architecture of Diplomacy focuses on the embassy-building program during the Cold War years, when the United States initiated a massive construction campaign that would demonstrate its commitment to its allies and assert its presence as a superpower.

Book Columbia in Manhattanville

Download or read book Columbia in Manhattanville written by Caitlin Blanchfield and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home to the famed Cotton Club, Alexander Hamilton's grange, the Manhattan Project, and a Studebaker factory, West Harlem has been an ever-transforming pocket of New York City. With the arrival of Columbia University's Manhattanville expansion-a campus master plan designed by architect Renzo Piano-it is now also a site of experimentation in the future of the twenty-first century university. Bringing together conversations with the architects and planners designing the Manhattanville campus, the educators who will inhabit its buildings, and essays from urban and architectural historians, this book both documents the making of Manhattanville and critically engages with the University's own history of expansion. Featuring contributions from Renzo Piano, Elizabeth Diller, Charles Renfro, Amale Andraos, Reinhold Martin, Tom Jessell, and Maxine Griffith, among others.

Book The Arab City

Download or read book The Arab City written by Amale Andraos and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving beyond reductive notions of identity, myths of authenticity, fetishized traditionalism, or the constructed opposition of tradition and modernity, The Arab City: Architectural and Representation critically engages contemporary architectural and urban production in the Middle East. Taking the "Arab City" and "Islamic Architecture" as sites of investigation rather than given categories, this book reframes the region's buildings, cities, and landscapes and broadens its architectural and urban canons. Arab cities are multifaceted places and sites of layered historical imaginaries; defined by regional and territorial economies, they bridge scales of production and political engagement. The essays collected here investigate cultural representation, the evolution of historical cities, contemporary architectural practices, emerging urban conditions, and responsive urban imaginaries in the Arab World. With contributions from Ashraf Abdalla, Senan Abdelqader, Nadia Abu ElÂ-Haj, Su'ad Amiry, Amale Andraos, Mohammed al-Asad, George Arbid, Mohamed Elshahed, Yasser Elsheshtawy, Rania Ghosn, Saba Innab, Adrian Lahoud, Lila Abu Lughod, Ziad Jamaleddine, Ahmed Kanna, Bernard Khoury, Laura Kurgan, Ali Mangera, Reinhold Martin, Timothy Mitchell, Magda Mostafa, Nasser Rabbat, Hashim Sarkis, Felicity Scott, Hala Warde, Mark Wasiuta, Eyal Weizman, Mabel O. Wilson, and Gwendolyn Wright.