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Another city: urban life and urban spaces in the New American Republic

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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, burgeoning American cities such as New Orleans and Philadelphia seemed increasingly chaotic. Through contemporary travel accounts, diaries, and correspondence, as well as an extensive illustration selection of maps, architectural drawings, paintings, and prints - many previously unpublished - Upton investigates not only how buildings were designed, streets were laid out, and urban space was put to use, but also why.

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Kitchens, smokehouses, and privies: outbuildings and the architecture of daily life in the eighteenth-century mid-atlantic

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In Kitchens, Smokehouses, and Privies, Michael Olmert takes us into the eighteenth-century backyards of colonial America. He explores the many small outbuildings that can still be found at obscure rural farmsteads throughout the Tidewater and greater mid-Atlantic, in towns like Williamsburg and Annapolis, and at elite plantations such as Mount Vernon and Monticello.

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Palaces of the ancient new world

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Among the most sumptuous buildings of antiquity were royal palaces. As in the Old World, kings and nobles of ancient Mexico and Peru had luxurious administrative quarters in cities, and exquisite pleasure palaces in the countryside. This volume explores the great houses of the ancient New World, from palaces of the Aztecs and Incas, looted by the Spanish conquistadors, to those lost high in the Andes and deep in the jungle. This volume, the first scholarly compendium of elite residences of the high cultures of the New World, presents definitive descriptions and interpretations by leading scholars in the field. Authoritative yet accessible, this extensively illustrated book will serve as an important resource for anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians of art, architecture, and related disciplines.

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Early American houses with a glossary of colonial architectural terms

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This publication explores the homes and architecture of 17th-century early America. Original floor plans, illustrations, and photographs are partnered with detailed descriptions. Includes 120 illustrations, 33 plates.

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A field guide to American houses : the definitive guide to identifying and understanding America's domestic architecture

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Focusing on dwellings in urban and suburban neighborhoods and rural locations all across the continental United States — houses built over the past three hundred years reflecting every social and economic background — this guide provides in-depth information on the essentials of domestic architecture with facts and frames of reference. With more than 1,600 detailed photographs and line illustrations and informative text.

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The architecture of the shakers

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Julie Nicoletta's perceptive text and Bret Morgan's striking photographs illuminate the austere beauty, regional variations, and functional and stylistic evolution of Shaker buildings over the course of two centuries, evoking a visual and literary survey of Shaker design and its impact on our culture at large.

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Habiter le monde : espaces, paysages et architectures chez les Hopi d'Arizona et les Lacandon du Chiapas

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Comment les humains pensent-ils et aménagent-ils leurs espaces de vie ou, pour mieux dire, comment habitent-ils le monde ? Cest pour répondre à cette question que lenseignant en architecture Patrick Pérez, disparu en 2019, se fait anthropologue et part à la rencontre de deux sociétés amérindiennes très différentes lune de lautre, les Hopi dArizona et les Lacandons du Chiapas. Cest le fruit de cette (en)quête qui est livré ici, à travers des textes au style élégant et expressif, mus par un même objectif : donner un sens à laltérité, amener la lectrice ou le lecteur à comprendre ce que sont les Autres, dans toute leur singularité et leur complexité. Une magistrale leçon danthropologie.

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An American Renaissance: Beaux-Artsarchitecture in New York City

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The Gilded Age, also referred to as the American Renaissance, is an era associated with unparalleled growth, technological advancement, prosperity, and cultural change. Spanning from the 1870s to the 1930s, it marks the first time that the titans of American finance and industry had more wealth than their European counterparts. As the center of this dynamic economy, New York City attracted immigrant workers and millionaires alike. It was not enough for the self-appointed elite to just build their own grand châteaux and palazzos along Fifth Avenue- collectively they dreamed of creating a new metropolis to rival the great cultural capitals of London, Paris, and Rome. To flaunt their newly acquired wealth they needed an architecture dripping in embellishment and historical reference. Enter the Beaux-Arts. This book takes a close look at twenty of the finest examples of Beaux-Arts architecture in New York City. While showing public exteriors, its focus is on the lavish interiors that are associated with the opulence of the Gilded Age- often providing a glimpse inside buildings not otherwise viewable to the public. While some of the buildings and monuments featured are world-renowned landmarks recognizable and accessible to all, others are obscure buildings that history has forgotten.

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Court house: a photographic document

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The County Court House, symbolic center of each community from the Colonial era to the present, reflects the attitudes and aspirations of each generation up to our time. This exploration of a vital part of American life tells us much about the people who left their mark on these spaces over a period of two and a half centuries and makes an important contribution to the knowledge of the architecture of the United States. From log cabin to high rise, the photographs and texts encompass modest Colonial buildings and flamboyant structures which are the reflections of properity and pride. The court house stands for the dignity of the law and the democratic principle and is the most significant single building widely distributed across the country.

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Histoire naturelle du Massachusetts

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A partir de l'observation de la faune et de la flore du Massachusetts, l'auteur de ''Walden'' ou ''La vie dans les bois'' se livre à une réflexion poétique sur la science et les scientifiques tout en célébrant la vie naturelle face à la société corruptrice.