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American ruins have become increasingly prominent, whether in discussions of “urban blight” and home foreclosures, in commemorations of 9/11, or in postapocalyptic movies. In this book, Nick Yablon argues that the association between American cities and ruins dates back to a much earlier period in the nation’s history. Recovering numerous scenes of urban desolation—from(...)
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American ruins have become increasingly prominent, whether in discussions of “urban blight” and home foreclosures, in commemorations of 9/11, or in postapocalyptic movies. In this book, Nick Yablon argues that the association between American cities and ruins dates back to a much earlier period in the nation’s history. Recovering numerous scenes of urban desolation—from(...)
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Untimely ruins : an archaeology of American urban modernity, 1819-1919
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American ruins have become increasingly prominent, whether in discussions of “urban blight” and home foreclosures, in commemorations of 9/11, or in postapocalyptic movies. In this book, Nick Yablon argues that the association between American cities and ruins dates back to a much earlier period in the nation’s history. Recovering numerous scenes of urban desolation—from failed banks, abandoned towns, and dilapidated tenements to the crumbling skyscrapers and bridges envisioned in science fiction and cartoons—this publication challenges the myth that ruins were absent or insignificant objects in nineteenth-century America. The first book to document an American cult of the ruin, it traces its deviations as well as derivations from European conventions. Unlike classical and Gothic ruins, which decayed gracefully over centuries and inspired philosophical meditations about the fate of civilizations, America’s ruins were often “untimely,” appearing unpredictably and disappearing before they could accrue an aura of age. As modern ruins of steel and iron, they stimulated critical reflections about contemporary cities, and the unfamiliar kinds of experience they enabled. Unearthing evocative sources everywhere from the archives of amateur photographers to the contents of time-capsules, this title exposes crucial debates about the economic, technological, and cultural transformations known as urban modernity.
Untimely ruins : an archaeology of American urban modernity, 1819-1919
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American ruins have become increasingly prominent, whether in discussions of “urban blight” and home foreclosures, in commemorations of 9/11, or in postapocalyptic movies. In this book, Nick Yablon argues that the association between American cities and ruins dates back to a much earlier period in the nation’s history. Recovering numerous scenes of urban desolation—from failed banks, abandoned towns, and dilapidated tenements to the crumbling skyscrapers and bridges envisioned in science fiction and cartoons—this publication challenges the myth that ruins were absent or insignificant objects in nineteenth-century America. The first book to document an American cult of the ruin, it traces its deviations as well as derivations from European conventions. Unlike classical and Gothic ruins, which decayed gracefully over centuries and inspired philosophical meditations about the fate of civilizations, America’s ruins were often “untimely,” appearing unpredictably and disappearing before they could accrue an aura of age. As modern ruins of steel and iron, they stimulated critical reflections about contemporary cities, and the unfamiliar kinds of experience they enabled. Unearthing evocative sources everywhere from the archives of amateur photographers to the contents of time-capsules, this title exposes crucial debates about the economic, technological, and cultural transformations known as urban modernity.
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February 2010, Chicago
February 2010, Chicago
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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239 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
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Stuttgart ; London : Edition Axel Menges, ©2013.
Stuttgart ; London : Edition Axel Menges, ©2013.
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Open space : transparency, freedom, dematerialisation / Günther Feuerstein.
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239 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Open space : transparency, freedom, dematerialisation / Günther Feuerstein.
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Stuttgart ; London : Edition Axel Menges, ©2013.
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2 volumes (xix, 735 ; xix, 690 pages) : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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2 volumes (xix, 735 ; xix, 690 pages) : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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Cham : Birkhäuser, [2015], ©2015
Cham : Birkhäuser, [2015], ©2015
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Architecture and mathematics from antiquity to the future / Kim Williams, Michael J. Ostwald, editors.
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Architecture and mathematics from antiquity to the future / Kim Williams, Michael J. Ostwald, editors.
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Cham : Birkhäuser, [2015], ©2015
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291 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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Rotterdam : V2 Pub. ; New York, NY : Distributed in North America through D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, ©2008.
Rotterdam : V2 Pub. ; New York, NY : Distributed in North America through D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, ©2008.
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The architecture of continuity : essays and conversations / Lars Spuybroek.
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The architecture of continuity : essays and conversations / Lars Spuybroek.
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Rotterdam : V2 Pub. ; New York, NY : Distributed in North America through D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, ©2008.
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xvii, 480 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
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Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2014], ©2014
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2014], ©2014
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Buildings of Vermont / Glenn M. Andres, Curtis B. Johnson ; with contributions by Chester H. Liebs ; photographer, Curtis B. Johnson.
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Buildings of Vermont / Glenn M. Andres, Curtis B. Johnson ; with contributions by Chester H. Liebs ; photographer, Curtis B. Johnson.
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Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2014], ©2014
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Kristine Potter: Dark waters
Kristine Potter: Dark waters
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''Dark waters'', Kristine Potter’s second monograph, continues her engagement with the American landscape as a palimpsest for cultural ideologies. In this dark and brooding series, Potter reflects on the Southern Gothic landscape as evoked in the popular imagination of 'murder ballads' from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her seductive, richly detailed(...)
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''Dark waters'', Kristine Potter’s second monograph, continues her engagement with the American landscape as a palimpsest for cultural ideologies. In this dark and brooding series, Potter reflects on the Southern Gothic landscape as evoked in the popular imagination of 'murder ballads' from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her seductive, richly detailed(...)
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Kristine Potter: Dark waters
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''Dark waters'', Kristine Potter’s second monograph, continues her engagement with the American landscape as a palimpsest for cultural ideologies. In this dark and brooding series, Potter reflects on the Southern Gothic landscape as evoked in the popular imagination of 'murder ballads' from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her seductive, richly detailed black-and-white images channel the setting and characters of these songs, capturing the landscape of the American South, and creating a series of evocative portraits that stand in for the oft-unnamed women at the center of their stories. In the American murder ballad, which has taken on cult appeal and continue to be rerecorded even to this day, the riverscape is frequently the stage of crimes as described in their lyrics. Places like Murder Creek, Bloody Fork, and Deadman’s Pond are haunted by both the victim and perpetrator of violence in the world Potter conjures, reflecting the casual and popular glamorization of violence against women that remains prevalent in today’s cultural landscape.
Kristine Potter: Dark waters
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''Dark waters'', Kristine Potter’s second monograph, continues her engagement with the American landscape as a palimpsest for cultural ideologies. In this dark and brooding series, Potter reflects on the Southern Gothic landscape as evoked in the popular imagination of 'murder ballads' from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her seductive, richly detailed black-and-white images channel the setting and characters of these songs, capturing the landscape of the American South, and creating a series of evocative portraits that stand in for the oft-unnamed women at the center of their stories. In the American murder ballad, which has taken on cult appeal and continue to be rerecorded even to this day, the riverscape is frequently the stage of crimes as described in their lyrics. Places like Murder Creek, Bloody Fork, and Deadman’s Pond are haunted by both the victim and perpetrator of violence in the world Potter conjures, reflecting the casual and popular glamorization of violence against women that remains prevalent in today’s cultural landscape.
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June 2023
June 2023
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Written by a prominent 19th-century architect, this authentic 1876 guide to Victorian house styles depicts a wide array of magnificent homes of the period. Included are a six-room ornamental cottage for $1,500 and an ornate Gothic suburban residence, complete with parlor, sitting room, dressing rooms, six bedrooms, and two baths-at a cost of $33,000. This publication is(...)
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Written by a prominent 19th-century architect, this authentic 1876 guide to Victorian house styles depicts a wide array of magnificent homes of the period. Included are a six-room ornamental cottage for $1,500 and an ornate Gothic suburban residence, complete with parlor, sitting room, dressing rooms, six bedrooms, and two baths-at a cost of $33,000. This publication is(...)
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History until 1900, North America
History until 1900, North America
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December 2005, Mineola, New York
December 2005, Mineola, New York
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Authentic Victorian villas and cottages : over 100 designs with elevation and floor plans
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Written by a prominent 19th-century architect, this authentic 1876 guide to Victorian house styles depicts a wide array of magnificent homes of the period. Included are a six-room ornamental cottage for $1,500 and an ornate Gothic suburban residence, complete with parlor, sitting room, dressing rooms, six bedrooms, and two baths-at a cost of $33,000. This publication is for architects, preservationists, home restorers, and Victoriana enthusiasts. With 122 engravings.
Authentic Victorian villas and cottages : over 100 designs with elevation and floor plans
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Written by a prominent 19th-century architect, this authentic 1876 guide to Victorian house styles depicts a wide array of magnificent homes of the period. Included are a six-room ornamental cottage for $1,500 and an ornate Gothic suburban residence, complete with parlor, sitting room, dressing rooms, six bedrooms, and two baths-at a cost of $33,000. This publication is for architects, preservationists, home restorers, and Victoriana enthusiasts. With 122 engravings.
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December 2005, Mineola, New York
December 2005, Mineola, New York
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History until 1900, North America
History until 1900, North America
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Houses of Missouri 1870-1940
Houses of Missouri 1870-1940
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With nearly 300 archival photographs, drawings, and original floor plans, Houses of Missouri, 1870–1940, offers an intimate tour behind the facades of 45 purely American houses. Among these are Greystone, the pastoral Gothic cottage of Major Emory Foster in Pevely; Oak Hall, the opulent mansion of the legendary Kansas City Star publisher William Rockhill Nelson; the(...)
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With nearly 300 archival photographs, drawings, and original floor plans, Houses of Missouri, 1870–1940, offers an intimate tour behind the facades of 45 purely American houses. Among these are Greystone, the pastoral Gothic cottage of Major Emory Foster in Pevely; Oak Hall, the opulent mansion of the legendary Kansas City Star publisher William Rockhill Nelson; the(...)
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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October 2008, New York
October 2008, New York
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Houses of Missouri 1870-1940
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With nearly 300 archival photographs, drawings, and original floor plans, Houses of Missouri, 1870–1940, offers an intimate tour behind the facades of 45 purely American houses. Among these are Greystone, the pastoral Gothic cottage of Major Emory Foster in Pevely; Oak Hall, the opulent mansion of the legendary Kansas City Star publisher William Rockhill Nelson; the iconoclastic “machine in the prairie,” Samuel Marx-designed Ladue residence for department store magnate Morton May; and Chatol, the striking Art Moderne “farmhouse” in rural Boone county. The authors bring to life the fortunes, motivations, and aspirations of their wealthy and upstanding house owners who rigorously defined what was “suitable” and respectable living in America’s heartland.
Houses of Missouri 1870-1940
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With nearly 300 archival photographs, drawings, and original floor plans, Houses of Missouri, 1870–1940, offers an intimate tour behind the facades of 45 purely American houses. Among these are Greystone, the pastoral Gothic cottage of Major Emory Foster in Pevely; Oak Hall, the opulent mansion of the legendary Kansas City Star publisher William Rockhill Nelson; the iconoclastic “machine in the prairie,” Samuel Marx-designed Ladue residence for department store magnate Morton May; and Chatol, the striking Art Moderne “farmhouse” in rural Boone county. The authors bring to life the fortunes, motivations, and aspirations of their wealthy and upstanding house owners who rigorously defined what was “suitable” and respectable living in America’s heartland.
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October 2008, New York
October 2008, New York
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Movie theaters
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They are in every American city and town—grandiose movie palaces, constructed during the heyday of the entertainment industry, that now stand abandoned, empty, decaying, or repurposed. Since 2005, the acclaimed photographic duo Marchand/Meffre have been traveling across the US to visit these early 20th-century relics. They have captured the architectural diversity of the(...)
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They are in every American city and town—grandiose movie palaces, constructed during the heyday of the entertainment industry, that now stand abandoned, empty, decaying, or repurposed. Since 2005, the acclaimed photographic duo Marchand/Meffre have been traveling across the US to visit these early 20th-century relics. They have captured the architectural diversity of the(...)
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Movie theaters
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They are in every American city and town—grandiose movie palaces, constructed during the heyday of the entertainment industry, that now stand abandoned, empty, decaying, or repurposed. Since 2005, the acclaimed photographic duo Marchand/Meffre have been traveling across the US to visit these early 20th-century relics. They have captured the architectural diversity of the theaters’ exteriors, from neo renaissance to neo-Gothic, art nouveau to Bauhaus, and neo-Byzantine to Jugendstill. They have also stepped inside to capture the commonalities of a dying culture— crumbling plaster, rows of broken crushed-velvet seats, peeling paint, defunct equipment, and abandoned concession stands—as well as their transformation into bingo halls, warehouses, fitness centers, flea markets, parking lots, and grocery stores.
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They are in every American city and town—grandiose movie palaces, constructed during the heyday of the entertainment industry, that now stand abandoned, empty, decaying, or repurposed. Since 2005, the acclaimed photographic duo Marchand/Meffre have been traveling across the US to visit these early 20th-century relics. They have captured the architectural diversity of the theaters’ exteriors, from neo renaissance to neo-Gothic, art nouveau to Bauhaus, and neo-Byzantine to Jugendstill. They have also stepped inside to capture the commonalities of a dying culture— crumbling plaster, rows of broken crushed-velvet seats, peeling paint, defunct equipment, and abandoned concession stands—as well as their transformation into bingo halls, warehouses, fitness centers, flea markets, parking lots, and grocery stores.
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January 2022
January 2022
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Elaborately conceived, grandly constructed insane asylums�ranging in appearance from classical temples to Gothic castles�were once a common sight looming on the outskirts of American towns and cities. Many of these buildings were razed long ago, and those that remain stand as grim reminders of an often cruel system. For much of the nineteenth century, however, these(...)
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Elaborately conceived, grandly constructed insane asylums�ranging in appearance from classical temples to Gothic castles�were once a common sight looming on the outskirts of American towns and cities. Many of these buildings were razed long ago, and those that remain stand as grim reminders of an often cruel system. For much of the nineteenth century, however, these(...)
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Commercial interiors, Building types
Commercial interiors, Building types
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June 2007, Minnieapolis, London
June 2007, Minnieapolis, London
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The architecture of madness : insane asylums in the united states
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Elaborately conceived, grandly constructed insane asylums�ranging in appearance from classical temples to Gothic castles�were once a common sight looming on the outskirts of American towns and cities. Many of these buildings were razed long ago, and those that remain stand as grim reminders of an often cruel system. For much of the nineteenth century, however, these asylums epitomized the widely held belief among doctors and social reformers that insanity was a curable disease and that environment�architecture in particular�was the most effective means of treatment. In The Architecture of Madness, Carla Yanni tells a compelling story of therapeutic design, from America�s earliest purpose�built institutions for the insane to the asylum construction frenzy in the second half of the century. At the center of Yanni�s inquiry is Dr. Thomas Kirkbride, a Pennsylvania-born Quaker, who in the 1840s devised a novel way to house the mentally diseased that emphasized segregation by severity of illness, ease of treatment and surveillance, and ventilation. After the Civil War, American architects designed Kirkbride-plan hospitals across the country.
The architecture of madness : insane asylums in the united states
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Elaborately conceived, grandly constructed insane asylums�ranging in appearance from classical temples to Gothic castles�were once a common sight looming on the outskirts of American towns and cities. Many of these buildings were razed long ago, and those that remain stand as grim reminders of an often cruel system. For much of the nineteenth century, however, these asylums epitomized the widely held belief among doctors and social reformers that insanity was a curable disease and that environment�architecture in particular�was the most effective means of treatment. In The Architecture of Madness, Carla Yanni tells a compelling story of therapeutic design, from America�s earliest purpose�built institutions for the insane to the asylum construction frenzy in the second half of the century. At the center of Yanni�s inquiry is Dr. Thomas Kirkbride, a Pennsylvania-born Quaker, who in the 1840s devised a novel way to house the mentally diseased that emphasized segregation by severity of illness, ease of treatment and surveillance, and ventilation. After the Civil War, American architects designed Kirkbride-plan hospitals across the country.
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June 2007, Minnieapolis, London
June 2007, Minnieapolis, London
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Commercial interiors, Building types
Commercial interiors, Building types
