A History of American Architecture

A History of American Architecture
Author: Mark Gelernter
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2001
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780719047275

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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.

Source Book of American Architecture

Source Book of American Architecture
Author: George Everard Kidder Smith
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Total Pages: 696
Release: 1996
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781568980256

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This survey provides a unique overview of 1,000-years of architectural development.

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.

American Buildings and Their Architects: The colonial and neoclassical styles

American Buildings and Their Architects: The colonial and neoclassical styles
Author: William Harvey Pierson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 552
Release: 1986
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

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Beginning with a description of Gothic, Classical, and Baroque architecture, Pierson explores how American architects used these traditions to develop a uniquely American style. He examines the works of the early masters, including Bulfinch's Massachusetts State House, Latrobe's Capitol Building in Washington, Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Mills's buildings in South Carolina, as well as Thomas Jefferson's house in Monticello, which represents the clearest expression of the new American architectural vision.

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.

Building the Nation

Building the Nation
Author: Steven Conn
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2003-06-23
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0812218523

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"Some anthologies seem slapdash or opportunistic; others are labors of love, informed by a mastery of a particular field and a passion for sharing the heterogeneous richness of their documents. "Building the Nation" is happily one of the latter. . . . Vastly useful."--"Preservation"

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.

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.

Architecture in North America Since 1960

Architecture in North America Since 1960
Author: Alexander Tzonis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1995
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780500341414

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This work traces the evolution of North American architectual work from 1960 to 1995. The book explores its developments and innovations through the themes of ideology, place, social change, technology, the city and the environment. It features 78 projects and both examines and offers critical insights into the debates surrounding architecture today.

Women in American Architecture

Women in American Architecture
Author: Architectural League of New York
Publisher: New York : Whitney Library of Design
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1977
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

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