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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(...)
décembre 2005, Mineola, New York
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.
Look again in Baltimore
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A marriage of photography and criticism, this volume celebrates details of Baltimore's architectural heritage and explores both familiar and unnoticed places. Photographer James DuSel and art critic John Dorsey have created a book that leads from images to thoughts, and they invite readers to follow the same path. DuSel's black-and-white photographs focus on details(...)
janvier 2005, Baltimore
Look again in Baltimore
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A marriage of photography and criticism, this volume celebrates details of Baltimore's architectural heritage and explores both familiar and unnoticed places. Photographer James DuSel and art critic John Dorsey have created a book that leads from images to thoughts, and they invite readers to follow the same path. DuSel's black-and-white photographs focus on details of larger images: the bottom of a doorway, the corner of a portico, the wall of a shoe repair shop, the substructure of a bridge. Dorsey ruminates on these images, and he draws connections between Baltimore's visual vocabulary and the tapestry of civilization. He carries us from a window in Roland Park to the triumphal arch of Constantine in Rome, from a stairway at the Maryland Institute to the Doge's Palace in Venice, from a vine at the Baltimore museum of art to Shakespeare. DuSel and Dorsey, through a studious appreciation of detail, encourage us to look at our built environment afresh and discover a new and more meaningful relationship with our surroundings. Shaking off what DuSel calls "the anesthesia of daily life," "Look again in Baltimore" offers arresting insights into the richness of the everyday world.
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Over the past ten years, the Library of Congress has cataloged more than forty thousand drawings, prints, and photographs that capture important developments in the growth of Washington, D.C., and its greater metropolitan area, including Virginia and Maryland. This volume, a guide to the library's massive collection, offers an introduction to its content and a(...)
janvier 2005, Baltimore / Washindton
Capital drawings : architectural designs for Washington, D.C., from the library of congress
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Over the past ten years, the Library of Congress has cataloged more than forty thousand drawings, prints, and photographs that capture important developments in the growth of Washington, D.C., and its greater metropolitan area, including Virginia and Maryland. This volume, a guide to the library's massive collection, offers an introduction to its content and a celebration of the ambitious project of designing the nation's capital. "Capital drawings" features drawings for some of Washington's most important buildings, monuments, and memorials—the United States Capitol, the White House, and the Vietnam Memorial—as well as anonymous structures of everyday life and ambitious projects that were never built. These newly available documents tell the story of the capital's planning and growth. Each of these "capital drawings" reflects some aspect of the lives, history, and values of its creators and sponsors. Contributors: Richard Longstreth, George Washington University; C. Ford Peatross, Library of Congress; Pamela Scott, American University; William Seale, White House Historical Association; Damie Stillman, Society of Architectural Historians; Gwendolyn Wright, Columbia University.
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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(...)
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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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"Grand avenues" tells the riveting story of Pierre Charles L’Enfant and the creation of Washington D.C. - from the seeds of his inspiration to the fulfillment of his extraordinary vision. L’Enfant’s story is one of consuming passion, high emotion, artistic genius, and human frailty. As a boy he studied drawing at the most prestigious art institute in the world. As a(...)
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Grand avenues : the story of the French visionary who designed Washington, D.C.
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"Grand avenues" tells the riveting story of Pierre Charles L’Enfant and the creation of Washington D.C. - from the seeds of his inspiration to the fulfillment of his extraordinary vision. L’Enfant’s story is one of consuming passion, high emotion, artistic genius, and human frailty. As a boy he studied drawing at the most prestigious art institute in the world. As a young man he left his home in Paris to volunteer in the army of the American colonies, where he served under George Washington. There he would also meet many of the people who would have a profound impact on his life, including Alexander Hamilton and James Monroe. And it was Washington himself who, in 1791, entrusted L’Enfant with the planning of the nation’s capital - and reluctantly allowed him to be dismissed from the project eleven months later. The plan for the city was published under another name, and for the remainder of his life L’Enfant fought for recognition of his achievement. But he would not live to see that day, and a century would pass before L’Enfant would be given credit for his brilliant design.
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Through a lively exploration of material culture, literature, and architecture, 'American Arcadia' offers a tour through California's development as a Mediterranean haven from the late nineteenth century to the present. Art historian Peter J. Holliday traces the classical influence primarily through the evidence of material culture, yet the book emphasizes the stories and(...)
American Arcadia: California and the classical tradition
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Through a lively exploration of material culture, literature, and architecture, 'American Arcadia' offers a tour through California's development as a Mediterranean haven from the late nineteenth century to the present. Art historian Peter J. Holliday traces the classical influence primarily through the evidence of material culture, yet the book emphasizes the stories and people, famous and forgotten, behind the works, such as Florence Yoch, the renowned landscape designer and set designer for Gone with the Wind, and "Sister Aimee" Semple McPherson, the most publicized Christian evangelist of her day, whose sermons filled the Pantheon-like Angelus Temple.
Lady Liberty
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La statue de la liberté est l’un des monuments le plus photographié au monde.Pour assurer le suivi de sa construction qui se déroule à Paris, son créateur, le Français Auguste Bartholdi, fait appel à l’expertise de photographes professionnels. C’est ainsi qu’il commande un panorama géant de la ville de New York qui l’aide à figurer les projets d’implantation de sa statue.(...)
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Lady Liberty
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La statue de la liberté est l’un des monuments le plus photographié au monde.Pour assurer le suivi de sa construction qui se déroule à Paris, son créateur, le Français Auguste Bartholdi, fait appel à l’expertise de photographes professionnels. C’est ainsi qu’il commande un panorama géant de la ville de New York qui l’aide à figurer les projets d’implantation de sa statue. Dessinant sur les images, les retouchant, il se livre aussi à des photomontages. L’image, et en particulier la photographie, jouent ici un rôle inédit.Au-delà de leur fonction, ces images oscillent entre réalité et fiction. Elles racontent vingt années d’un projet démesuré et utopique marqué par les plus grands enjeux politiques, sociaux, architecturaux et esthétiques de son temps.
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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.
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.
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Colonial, Neoclassical, Queen Anne, Craftsman—what distinguishes one architectural style from another? This book will allow readers to recognize the architectural features and style of virtually any house they encounter. Here, architect John Milnes Baker explains the historical, cultural, and technical influences that shaped each of these styles and many more. Organized(...)
American house styles: a concise guide
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Colonial, Neoclassical, Queen Anne, Craftsman—what distinguishes one architectural style from another? This book will allow readers to recognize the architectural features and style of virtually any house they encounter. Here, architect John Milnes Baker explains the historical, cultural, and technical influences that shaped each of these styles and many more. Organized in periods, from Early Colonial (1600–1715) to the Modern Movement (1920–60) and beyond, this tour of America’s varied residential architecture is rendered in elevation drawings that precisely illustrate the key characteristics of each style.
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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(...)
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.