American Architects and Texts

American Architects and Texts
Author: Juan Pablo Bonta
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1996
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780262024006

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In this volume the author analyzes 400 architectural books and articles published over the past 150 years to reveal changing societal preferences in architecture and to measure the reputations of individual architects - the text includes a ranked list of the 100 most famous architects.

American Architects and Their Books to 1848

American Architects and Their Books to 1848
Author: Kenneth Hafertepe
Publisher: Studies in Print Culture and t
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2001
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

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Since the Renaissance, books and drawings have been a primary means of communication among architects and their colleagues and clients. In this volume, 12 historians explore the use of books by architects in America in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a period when the profession of architecture was first emerging in the United States.

Three American Architects

Three American Architects
Author: James F. O'Gorman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 1992-09-15
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780226620725

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''Discusses the individual and collective achievement of the three American architects.''--

African American Architects

African American Architects
Author: Dreck Spurlock Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 855
Release: 2004-03
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1135956294

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Since 1865 African-American architects have been designing and building houses and public buildings, but the architects are virtually unknown. This work brings their lives and work to light for the first time.

A Concise History of American Architecture

A Concise History of American Architecture
Author: Leland M. Roth
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Total Pages: 436
Release: 1979
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

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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.

Walker & Gillette

Walker & Gillette
Author: Edith Crouch
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780764345241

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The work of Walker & Gillette, one of the leading architectural firms of the twentieth century, is documented with an extensive text and over 800 illustrations. These include many unpublished works by the company and by architect Joseph Mordecai Hirschman, whose passion for old world buildings influenced their design. The first half of the twentieth century featured a wide variety of architectural styles, including Classicism, Art Deco, and Modernism, which Walker & Gillette used well. Established in the early twentieth century, this firm would remain active until the 1950s. Over the years, the firm diversified, planning residential country estates, urban mansions, town homes, and apartments. Commercial, corporate, and governmental architecture, Art Deco skyscrapers, and unique commissions are all covered, as are the interiors they created for private yachts, ocean liners, the Playland Amusement Park, and their 1939 New York World's Fair offering. This book has relevance and appeal to architects, artists, historians, and readers who love vibrant American history.

American Architecture and Urbanism

American Architecture and Urbanism
Author: Vincent Scully
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2013-04-29
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1595341803

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A classic book authored by the foremost architectural historian in America, this fully illustrated history of American architecture and city planning is based on Vincent Scully's conviction that architecture and city planning are inseparably linked and must therefore be treated together. He defines architecture as a continuing dialogue between generations which creates an environment across time. This definitive survey extends beyond the cities themselves to the American scene as a whole, which has inspired the reasonable balanced, closed and ordered forms, and above all the probity, that he feels typifies American architecture.

The American Architect

The American Architect
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 454
Release: 1909
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

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