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The American suburban dream house-a single-family, detached dwelling, frequently clustered in tight rows and cul-de-sacs-has been attacked for some time as homogeneous and barren, yet the suburbs are home to half of the American population. Architectural historian John Archer suggests the endurance of the ideal house is deeply rooted in the notions of privacy, property,(...)
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The American suburban dream house-a single-family, detached dwelling, frequently clustered in tight rows and cul-de-sacs-has been attacked for some time as homogeneous and barren, yet the suburbs are home to half of the American population. Architectural historian John Archer suggests the endurance of the ideal house is deeply rooted in the notions of privacy, property,(...)
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Architecture and suburbia: from english villa to American dream house, 1690-2000
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The American suburban dream house-a single-family, detached dwelling, frequently clustered in tight rows and cul-de-sacs-has been attacked for some time as homogeneous and barren, yet the suburbs are home to half of the American population. Architectural historian John Archer suggests the endurance of the ideal house is deeply rooted in the notions of privacy, property, and selfhood that were introduced in late seventeenth-century England and became the foundation of the American nation and identity. Spanning four centuries, Architecture and Suburbia explores phenomena ranging from household furnishings and routines to the proliferation of the dream house in parallel with Cold War politics. Beginning with John Locke, whose Enlightenment philosophy imagined individuals capable of self-fulfillment, Archer examines the eighteenth-century British bourgeois villa and the earliest London suburbs. He recounts how early American homeowners used houses to establish social status and how twentieth-century Americans continued to flock to single-family houses in the suburbs, encouraged by patriotism, fueled by consumerism, and resisting disdain by disaffected youths, designers, and intellectuals. Finally, he recognizes “hybridized” or increasingly diverse American suburbs as the dynamic basis for a strengthened social fabric. From Enlightenment philosophy to rap lyrics, from the rise of a mercantile economy to discussions over neighborhoods, sprawl, and gated communities, Archer addresses the past, present, and future of the American dream house. John Archer is professor of cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. His book The Literature of British Domestic Architecture, 1715-1842, is the standard reference on the subject, and he also contributed to the Encyclopedia of Urban America and the Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Architecture.
Architecture and suburbia: from english villa to American dream house, 1690-2000
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The American suburban dream house-a single-family, detached dwelling, frequently clustered in tight rows and cul-de-sacs-has been attacked for some time as homogeneous and barren, yet the suburbs are home to half of the American population. Architectural historian John Archer suggests the endurance of the ideal house is deeply rooted in the notions of privacy, property, and selfhood that were introduced in late seventeenth-century England and became the foundation of the American nation and identity. Spanning four centuries, Architecture and Suburbia explores phenomena ranging from household furnishings and routines to the proliferation of the dream house in parallel with Cold War politics. Beginning with John Locke, whose Enlightenment philosophy imagined individuals capable of self-fulfillment, Archer examines the eighteenth-century British bourgeois villa and the earliest London suburbs. He recounts how early American homeowners used houses to establish social status and how twentieth-century Americans continued to flock to single-family houses in the suburbs, encouraged by patriotism, fueled by consumerism, and resisting disdain by disaffected youths, designers, and intellectuals. Finally, he recognizes “hybridized” or increasingly diverse American suburbs as the dynamic basis for a strengthened social fabric. From Enlightenment philosophy to rap lyrics, from the rise of a mercantile economy to discussions over neighborhoods, sprawl, and gated communities, Archer addresses the past, present, and future of the American dream house. John Archer is professor of cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. His book The Literature of British Domestic Architecture, 1715-1842, is the standard reference on the subject, and he also contributed to the Encyclopedia of Urban America and the Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Architecture.
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February 2008, Minneapolis, London
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For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could only be achieved by sacrificing those original freedoms, or alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. Graeber and Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a(...)
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For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could only be achieved by sacrificing those original freedoms, or alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. Graeber and Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a(...)
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The dawn of everything: a new history of humanity
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For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could only be achieved by sacrificing those original freedoms, or alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. Graeber and Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself. Drawing on path-breaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what's really there. If humans did not spend 95% of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? What was really happening during the periods that we usually describe as the emergence of "the state"? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume. ''The dawn of everything'' fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action.
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For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could only be achieved by sacrificing those original freedoms, or alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. Graeber and Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself. Drawing on path-breaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what's really there. If humans did not spend 95% of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? What was really happening during the periods that we usually describe as the emergence of "the state"? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume. ''The dawn of everything'' fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action.
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October 2021
October 2021
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223 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm
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Vancouver : UBC Press ; Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2005.
Vancouver : UBC Press ; Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2005.
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Vanishing British Columbia / Michael Kluckner.
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Vancouver : UBC Press ; Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2005.
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272 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm + 1 DVD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
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New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©2009.
New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©2009.
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Engineered transparency : the technical, visual, and spatial effects of glass / Michael Bell and Jeannie Kim, editors.
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Engineered transparency : the technical, visual, and spatial effects of glass / Michael Bell and Jeannie Kim, editors.
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New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©2009.
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2 volumes (volumes I. 1 preliminary leaf, [2], 201, [5] pages volumes II. 77 plates) ; 4o
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London : Printed for Richard Ware, at the Bible and Sun, on Ludgate Hill, [date of publication not identified]
London : Printed for Richard Ware, at the Bible and Sun, on Ludgate Hill, [date of publication not identified]
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The builders compleat assistant, or a library of arts and sciences, absolutely necessary to be understood by builders and workmen in general. viz. I. Arithmetick ... II. Geometry ... III. Architecture ... IV. Mensuration. V. Plain trigonometry. VI. Surveying ... VII. Mechanick powers. VIII. Hystrostraticks. : Illustrated by above thirteen hundred examples of lines, superficies, solids, mouldings, pedestals, columns, pilasters, entablatures, pediments, imposts, block cornices, rustick goins, frontispieces, arcades, porticos, &c. / Proportioned by modules and minutes, according to Andrea Palladio, and by equal parts. Likewise, great varieties of trussed roofs, timber bridges, centerings, arches, groins, twisted rails, compartments, obelisques, vases, pedestals for busts, sun-dials, fonts, &c. and methods for raising heavy bodies by the force of levers, pulleys, axis in peritrochio, screws, and wedges; as also water, by the common pump, crane &c. Wherein the properties, and pressure of the air, on water, &c. is explained. By B. Langley.
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The builders compleat assistant, or a library of arts and sciences, absolutely necessary to be understood by builders and workmen in general. viz. I. Arithmetick ... II. Geometry ... III. Architecture ... IV. Mensuration. V. Plain trigonometry. VI. Surveying ... VII. Mechanick powers. VIII. Hystrostraticks. : Illustrated by above thirteen hundred examples of lines, superficies, solids, mouldings, pedestals, columns, pilasters, entablatures, pediments, imposts, block cornices, rustick goins, frontispieces, arcades, porticos, &c. / Proportioned by modules and minutes, according to Andrea Palladio, and by equal parts. Likewise, great varieties of trussed roofs, timber bridges, centerings, arches, groins, twisted rails, compartments, obelisques, vases, pedestals for busts, sun-dials, fonts, &c. and methods for raising heavy bodies by the force of levers, pulleys, axis in peritrochio, screws, and wedges; as also water, by the common pump, crane &c. Wherein the properties, and pressure of the air, on water, &c. is explained. By B. Langley.
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London : Printed for Richard Ware, at the Bible and Sun, on Ludgate Hill, [date of publication not identified]
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This book introduces to an English-language audience the writings of the so-called New Vienna School of art history. In the 1930s Hans Sedlmayr (1896-1984) and Otto Pächt (1902-1988) undertook an ambitious extension of the formalist art historical project of Alois (...)
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This book introduces to an English-language audience the writings of the so-called New Vienna School of art history. In the 1930s Hans Sedlmayr (1896-1984) and Otto Pächt (1902-1988) undertook an ambitious extension of the formalist art historical project of Alois (...)
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The Vienna School reader : politics and art historical method in the 1930s
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This book introduces to an English-language audience the writings of the so-called New Vienna School of art history. In the 1930s Hans Sedlmayr (1896-1984) and Otto Pächt (1902-1988) undertook an ambitious extension of the formalist art historical project of Alois Riegl (1858-1905). Sedlmayr and Pächt began with an aestheticist conception of the autonomy and irreducibility of the artistic process. At the same time they believed they could read entire cultures and worldviews in the work of art. The key to this contextualist alchemy was the concept of "structure," a kind of deep formal property that the work of art shared with the world. Sedlmayr and Pächt's project immediately caught the attention of thinkers like Walter Benjamin who were similarly impatient with traditional empiricist scholarship. But the new project had its dark side. Sedlmayr used art history as a vehicle for a sweeping critique of modernity that soon escalated into nationalist and outright fascist polemic, even while Pächt, a Jew, was forced into exile. Sedlmayr and the whole scholarly project of Strukturanalyse were sharply repudiated by Meyer Schapiro and later Ernst Gombrich. After an introductory essay, the book opens with two selections from Riegl. The next section includes two essays by Sedlmayr, two by Pächt, and one each by Guido Kaschnitz-Weinberg and Fritz Novotny, all dating from the 1930s. The book closes with the divergent responses of Benjamin (1933) and Schapiro (1936). The difference of opinion between these two key voices raises again the question of the legitimacy and effectiveness of the method, and reveals the analogies between the New Vienna School project and the antiempiricist cultural histories of our own time. The book also contains an extensive bibliography.
The Vienna School reader : politics and art historical method in the 1930s
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This book introduces to an English-language audience the writings of the so-called New Vienna School of art history. In the 1930s Hans Sedlmayr (1896-1984) and Otto Pächt (1902-1988) undertook an ambitious extension of the formalist art historical project of Alois Riegl (1858-1905). Sedlmayr and Pächt began with an aestheticist conception of the autonomy and irreducibility of the artistic process. At the same time they believed they could read entire cultures and worldviews in the work of art. The key to this contextualist alchemy was the concept of "structure," a kind of deep formal property that the work of art shared with the world. Sedlmayr and Pächt's project immediately caught the attention of thinkers like Walter Benjamin who were similarly impatient with traditional empiricist scholarship. But the new project had its dark side. Sedlmayr used art history as a vehicle for a sweeping critique of modernity that soon escalated into nationalist and outright fascist polemic, even while Pächt, a Jew, was forced into exile. Sedlmayr and the whole scholarly project of Strukturanalyse were sharply repudiated by Meyer Schapiro and later Ernst Gombrich. After an introductory essay, the book opens with two selections from Riegl. The next section includes two essays by Sedlmayr, two by Pächt, and one each by Guido Kaschnitz-Weinberg and Fritz Novotny, all dating from the 1930s. The book closes with the divergent responses of Benjamin (1933) and Schapiro (1936). The difference of opinion between these two key voices raises again the question of the legitimacy and effectiveness of the method, and reveals the analogies between the New Vienna School project and the antiempiricist cultural histories of our own time. The book also contains an extensive bibliography.
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January 1900, New York
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xix, 1062 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 30 cm
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Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons Inc., [2016], ©2016
Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons Inc., [2016], ©2016
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Architectural graphic standards / authored by the American Institute of Architects ; Dennis J. Hall, FAIA, FCSI, editor-in-chief ; The Magnum Group, illustrator.
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Architectural graphic standards / authored by the American Institute of Architects ; Dennis J. Hall, FAIA, FCSI, editor-in-chief ; The Magnum Group, illustrator.
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Basel, Switzerland : Birkhäuser, [2018], ©2018
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Porous city : from metaphor to urban agenda / editors, Sophie Wolfrum, Heiner Stengel, Florian Kurbasik, Norbert Kling, Sofia Dona, Imke Mumm, Christian Zöhrer.
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Porous city : from metaphor to urban agenda / editors, Sophie Wolfrum, Heiner Stengel, Florian Kurbasik, Norbert Kling, Sofia Dona, Imke Mumm, Christian Zöhrer.
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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2015], ©2015
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A world of homeowners : American power and the politics of housing aid / Nancy H. Kwak.
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