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Classic work by the great Victorian expresses his deepest convictions about the nature and role of architecture and its aesthetics. This authoritative edition includes reproductions of the 14 original plates of Ruskin's superb drawings of architectural details from such structures as the Doge's Palace in Venice to the Cathedral of Rouen.
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Profusely illustrated volume by 19th-century pioneer of professional art criticism offers valuable information on how to furnish a home tastefully and affordably. Charming, lucidly written text covers everything from firescreens, curtained archways, and Grandmother's cupboard to Tyrolian tables and chairs, a Dutch bedstead, and a French bureau with fine brass mounts.
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Working with buildings and documentary sources as diverse as court cases and recipes, Herman interprets town houses as lived experience. He demonstrates that city houses served as sites of power as well as complex and often conflicted artifacts mapping the everyday negotiations of social identity and the display of sociability.
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Spurred by a rapidly expanding economy and abundant resources of land, building materials and skilled labor, the dream of building and owning one's own home became a reality in America in the 1920s. With the beginning market for small- to medium-sized one-family dwellings came a succession of innovative home designs that transformed American domestic architecture.
This outstanding book presents 500 small-home designs of the 1920s as they appeared...
This outstanding book presents 500 small-home designs of the 1920s as they appeared...
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Containing over 1200 photographs and detailed line drawings from which one can design and build directly, Patterns from the Golden Age of Rustic Design is a valuable reference for preservationists, historians, designers, and homeowners. Albert Good provided plans for the construction of cabins, lodges, hotels, fireplaces, boat houses, furniture, fixtures, and more. Initially developed as a teaching tool for designers in the 1930s, this book is for...
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A dual portrait of America's first great architect, Henry Hobson Richardson, and her finest landscape designer, Frederick Law Olmsted-and their immense impact on America
As the nation recovered from a cataclysmic war, two titans of design profoundly influenced how Americans came to interact with the built and natural world around them through their pioneering work in architecture and landscape design.
Frederick Law Olmsted is widely revered as America's...
10) Art Nouveau
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Art Nouveau gives a name to the decorative and architectural style developed in the 1880s and 1890s in the West. Born in reaction to the Industrial Revolution and to the creative vacuum it left behind, Art Nouveau was at the heart of a "renaissance" in the decorative arts. The primary objective of the movement was the creation of a new aesthetic of nature through a return to the study of natural subjects. In order to achieve this, artists such as...
11) L'Art nouveau
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Le terme « Art nouveau » désigne un style décoratif et architectural qui se développe dans les années 1880-1890 en Occident. Né en réaction contre les dérives de l'industrialisation et le vide créatif qu'elle entraîne, l'Art nouveau est à l'origine d'une véritable renaissance des arts décoratifs. L'objectif premier est la création d'une nouvelle esthétique de la nature, par un retour à l'étude du motif naturel. Pour ce faire, des...
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The metropolis of the future - as perceived by architect Hugh Ferriss in 1929 - was both generous and prophetic in vision. Largely an illustrated essay on the modern city and its future, Ferriss' book incorporated his philosophy of architecture. Includes powerful illustrations of towering structures, personal space, wide avenues, and rooftop parks. 59 illustrations.
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On the morning of the 19th of April, 1792, after weeks of stormy agitation in Paris, the Ministers of Louis XVI. brought down a letter from the King to the Legislative Assembly of France. The letter was brief but significant. It announced that the King intended to appear in the Hall of Assembly at noon on the following day. Though the letter did not disclose the object of the King's visit, it was known that Louis had given way to the pressure of his...
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About 1912, a renaissance of interest in early American architecture occurred that claimed the attention of a broad cross-section of the culture. It was demonstrated not only by being a popular topic in books and magazines, but also by the public's passion for collecting American antique furniture, and by students and architects traveling through different regions of the nation and photographing the most notable architectural examples. In the 1930s,...
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"La elaboración de este libro ha sido motivada, entre otros factores, por los siguientes: inicialmente, por la propia experiencia personal en la SCEE (Sociedad Constructora de Establecimientos Educacionales) durante doce años de trabajo, tiempo en que alcancé a conocer a José Aracena, quien murió en 1971; luego, por un deseo de abordar la vida de Gustavo Mönckeberg, quien fuera el padre de Hernán Mönckeberg Barros (colega arquitecto) que,...
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"Latin America: Thoughts" presents a collection of Ruth Verde Zein's articles on architectural theory, history and critic, arranged around three themes: Teaching and research, case studies and panoramas. Essays that share the belief that architectural design process is both creation of the new and connection with the relevant tradition and that being an eminently practical activity, its completion and renewal only occurs when it relates to conceptual...
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De nos jours, on ne défend plus l'idée que les peuples autochtones conquis et colonisés étaient sans culture ou sans histoire, tout en reconnaissant néanmoins que leur histoire était obscure et leur univers culturel opaque pour les premiers voyageurs européens. Roland Viau écrit ici la rencontre entre l'Europe et l'Amerindia en donnant la parole à l'Autre. Sa perspective est globale, proche de la world history — symbiose entre les disciplines...
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This handy reference displays a variety of handsome bungalows built in the early 1920s from Maine to California. Included are illustrations of charming bungalows for a small family, a farm bungalow with a novel siding treatment, a stucco bungalow design, a chalet in Los Angeles, and other models. 43 double-page spreads of halftones and line illustrations.
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Manuel Lago (Popayán, 1932) y Jaime Sáenz (Cali, 1932) una vez concluyeron su formación como arquitectos en la Universidad de Cornell y la Universidad de Notre Dame, respectivamente, retornaron a Cali para asociarse como Lago & Sáenz y configurar así una de las firmas de arquitectura más sobresalientes y activas en el país, cuyos proyectos rápidamente alcanzaron reconocimiento en publicaciones internacionales.
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Designs for 60 homes, from a simple four-room cottage with a front porch to a comfortable two-story home with four bedrooms, a reception hall, and pantry. Shown in landscaped exteriors, floor plans, and overhead cutaway views. With detailed commentaries on each design.
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