Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
Building
Author: Official Catalogue
Author: United States Centennial CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Centennial Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
The Builder
Author: Dougherty + Dougherty Artchitects LLP
Author: Dougherty + Dougherty ArchitectsPublisher: Images Publishing
ISBN: 9781864703030
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Architects Betsy Dougherty, FAIA and Brian Dougherty, FAIA are as active in the community as they are in architecture. Their Orange County practice Dougherty + Dougherty was founded in 1979, and quickly became a pioneer in the implementation of CAD in the design process. Since, the firm has been dedicated to the design of technologically advanced, environmentally responsive facilities that meet functional demand and provide for future needs. This new book looks exclusively at the firm's portfolio of work which includes projects for child development, education (from K-12 to college and university projects), governmental, healthcare and interiors. Betsy Dougherty served in 2007 as the Chancellor of the National of the AIA College of Fellows. Brian Dougherty is a well-known for his work as chair of the AIA National Ethics Council, and his LEED accreditation.
Building Developer
Author: Building the Nation
Author: Steven ConnPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081229310X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Moving away from the standard survey that takes readers from architect to architect and style to style, Building the Nation: Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape suggests a wholly new way of thinking about the history of America's built environment and how Americans have related to it. Through an enormous range of American voices, some famous and some obscure, and across more than two centuries of history, this anthology shows that the struggle to imagine what kinds of buildings and land use would best suit the nation pervaded all classes of Americans and was not the purview only of architects and designers. Some of the nation's finest writers, including Mark Twain, W. E. B. Du Bois, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Lewis Mumford, E. B. White, and John McPhee, are here, contemplating the American way of building. Equally important are those eloquent but little-known voices found in American newspapers and magazines which insistently wondered what American architecture and environmental planning should look like. Building the Nation also insists that American architecture can be understood only as both a result of and a force in shaping American social, cultural, and political developments. In so doing, this anthology demonstrates how central the built environment has been to our definition of what it is to be American and reveals seven central themes that have repeatedly animated American writers over the course of the past two centuries: the relationship of American architecture to European architecture, the nation's diverse regions, the place and shape of nature in American life, the design of cities, the explosion of the suburbs, the power of architecture to reform individuals, and the role of tradition in a nation dedicated to being perennially young.
The Reality Record and Builder
Author: International Exhibition, 1876
Author: United States Centennial CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Centennial Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The Nation
Author: Googie Redux
Author: Alan HessPublisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811842723
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The book that helped spark the retro craze for fifties architecture and introduced the term googie to the world is back! First published by Chronicle in 1986, this key survey of mid-century coffee shop and commercial architecture is still the standard work on the subject Googie Redux is a thoroughly revised and expanded edition of the classic and perennial top-selling book that rekindled the craze for 1950s coffee shop and commercial architecture. Long derided by critics as popular folly, the style - so named after John Lautner's eccentric Los Angeles coffee shop - was emblematic of Southern California's car-oriented architecture. By the time of the first edition's debut, these buildings were being demolished by the score. Alan Hess' 1985 Chronicle book did much not only to educate, legitimize, and popularize the style that characterized this endangered architecture, but it helped spark a resurgence of interest into midcentury modern design. Completely revised and significantly expanded in both text and images (some of them recently unearthed for this edition), this redesigned package features is still an entertaining and informative look at the rise, fall, and resurgence of the commercial architecture that changed the American landscape. Includes a greatly expanded guided tour of the iconic buildings in Southern California.