American Houses: The Architecture of Fairfax & Sammons

American Houses: The Architecture of Fairfax & Sammons
Author: Mary Miers
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2006-11-07
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

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Anne Fairfax and Richard Sammons are at the forefront of a movement among architects today who draw inspiration from the wellspring of the classical traditions in architecture. They have developed a body of work that reflects and adheres to the long-held theories of proportion and order passed down through many past generations of scholarship and practice. The firm's office also served as the headquarters for Henry Hope Reid's Classical America, the only organization offering an alternative to modernist aesthetics until the establishment of the Institute of Classical Architecture in 1992. The twenty-four projects in this volume show the firm's consistent focus on classical architectural beauty, whether the chosen style be Palladian, Tuscan, Mediterranean, Georgian, Adamesque, Neo-classical, British or Dutch Colonial, Colonial Revival, or even East Coast Shingle Style, in all of which Fairfax & Sammons are eminently proficient. The projects selected out of the firm's large body of work include country houses located in Connecticut, New York, Virginia, and Florida, including the renovation of town houses and apartments in New York City—all presented in new color photography.

American Houses

American Houses
Author: Gerald L. Foster
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2004
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

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Great American Homes: William T. Baker

Great American Homes: William T. Baker
Author: William T. Baker
Publisher: Images Publishing
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2012
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1864704837

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IMAGES' third monograph on the outstanding new classicist, William T. Baker.

American House Styles

American House Styles
Author: John Milnes Baker
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1994
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780393323252

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America has an abundance of fascinating and varied house styles, as fascinating and diverse as its people. This unique book will allow readers to recognize the architectural features and style of virtually any house they encounter.

Fifty Houses

Fifty Houses
Author: Sandy Sorlien
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2002
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780801870620

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In 1988, photographer Sandy Sorlien set out on a series of journeys to document the rich architectural heritage that America is losing to the cheap and banal design aesthetic of tract housing, strip malls, and big-box stores. Her seven-year odyssey took her over 90,000 miles of back roads to every state in the Union in search of homes that reflect and define the region in which they stand. After making over a thousand house portraits, Sorlien has chosen one representative image from each state and collected them in this volume.

Houses and Homes

Houses and Homes
Author: Barbara J. Howe
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1997
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780761989295

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This volume in the Nearby History series helps the reader document the history of a home. The reader will learn to examine written records, oral testimonies, visual sources, and the house's surroundings. The author covers American housing patterns, the individual characteristics of houses in different regions, construction techniques and materials, household technology, and family life styles. Houses and Homes is Volume 2 in The Nearby History Series.

American Homes

American Homes
Author: Ryan Ridge
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2014-12-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0472052586

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An eccentric, otherworldly guide to the domestic spaces Americans inhabit

This American House

This American House
Author: Jason Loper
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2021
Genre: American System-Built Homes
ISBN: 9781087500614

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Long before designing his signature Usonian houses, Frank Lloyd Wright envisioned an earlier series of affordable models for the middle class: The American System-Built Homes. He developed seven floorplans of varying size and layout, standardized so that materials could be precut at the factory to reduce costs. Only a few years after the project began, the United States entered World War I, and all home construction was stalled due to lumber shortages. Wright then turned his attention to other projects, and with fewer than twenty built, the American System-Built Homes were all but forgotten.In 2011, Jason Loper and Michael Schreiber purchased the only American System-Built Home constructed in Iowa, the Meier House, which set them on a course of refurbishing and researching their new residence. In This American House, Loper and Schreiber trace the history of the Meier House through its previous owners, and shed light on this underexplored period of Wright's oeuvre. With a preface by John H. Waters, the Preservation Programs Manager of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, This American House addresses what it means to be the stewards of a piece of history.

American Murder Houses

American Murder Houses
Author: Steve Lehto
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2015-02-03
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1101593016

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There are places in the United States of America where violent acts of bloodshed have occurred. Years may pass—even centuries—but the mark of death remains. They are known as Murder Houses. From a colonial manse in New England to a small-town home in Iowa to a Beverly Hills mansion, these residences have taken on a life of their own, gaining everything from local lore and gossip to national—and even global—infamy. Writer Steve Lehto recounts the stories behind the houses where Lizzie Borden supposedly gave her stepmother “forty whacks,” where the real Amityville Horror was first unleashed by gunfire, and where the demented acts of the Manson Family horrified a nation—as well some lesser-known sites of murder that were no less ghastly. Exploring the past and present of more than twenty-five renowned homicide scenes, American Murder Houses is a tour through the real estate of some of the most grisly and fascinating crimes in American history. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS

House Styles in America

House Styles in America
Author: James C. Massey
Publisher: Penguin Putnam
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Architecture, American
ISBN: 9780140281125

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This beautifully illustrated tour of America's houses begins in 1640 with the early roots of American style -- a combination of European skill and attitude combined with American know-how. This architectural journey continues on through the 18th and 19th centuries, through the Greek Revival, the Americanization of the Gothic Revival, and the early Colonial Revival. The houses of the 20th century are the main attraction as House Styles in America delves into the major movements in the Romantic Revivals of the 1920s and 1930s: English, French, and Spanish. Replete with 200 color photographs, this architectural journey is an essential and beautiful guide for realtors, tourists, and students of architecture.