Author: Harold Allen BrooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Leopold Eidlitz (1823-1908)
Author: Harold Allen BrooksBuildings by Leopold Eidlitz, 1823-1908
Author: Avery LibraryLeopold Eidlitz
Author: Kathryn E HollidayPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393732399
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Though Eidlitz's career faltered in New York in the 1880s, his blend of idealism and pragmatism, of science and art, became crucial to the further development of organic architecture in Chicago."--BOOK JACKET.
Notable Americans of Czechoslovak Ancestry in Arts and Letters and in Education
Author: Miloslav Rechcigl Jr.Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665540060
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1537
Book Description
As pointed out in my last two publications, no comprehensive study has been undertaken about the American Learned Men and Women with Czechoslovak roots. The aim of this work is to correct this glaring deficiency, with the focus on immigration from the period of mass migration and beyond, irrespective whether they were born in their European ancestral homes or whether they have descended from them. Whereas in the two mentioned monographs, the emphasis has been on scholars and social and natural scientists; and men and women in medicine, applied sciences and engineering, respectively, the present compendium deals with notable Americans of Czechoslovak ancestry in arts and letters, and in education. With respect to women, although most professional fields were closed to them through much of the nineteenth century, the area of arts and letters was opened to them, as noted earlier and as this compendium authenticates.
The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art
Author: Joan M. MarterPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195335791
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 3140
Book Description
Arranged in alphabetical order, these 5 volumes encompass the history of the cultural development of America with over 2300 entries.
American Jews with Czechoslovak Roots
Author: Miloslav Rechcigl Jr.Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 154623893X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This is a pioneering, comprehensive bibliography of existing publications relating to American Jews with ancestry in the former Czechoslovakia and its successor states, the Czech and the Slovak Republics, which has never before been attempted. Since only a few studies have been written on the subject, the present work has been extended to include biobibliography, in which area a plethora of papers and monographs exist. Consequently, this compendium can also be viewed as a comprehensive listing of biographical sources relating to American Jews with the Czechoslovak roots. As the reader will find out, they have been involved, practically, in every field of human endeavor, in numbers that surprise. As for the definition of Jews, the present work encompasses not only the individuals that have professed in Judaism but also the descendants of the former Jews who originally lived on the territory of the former Czechoslovakia, regardless of the generation or where they were born.
Jews and the Renaissance of Synagogue Architecture, 1450–1730
Author: Barry L. StiefelPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131732031X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Before the mid-fifteenth century, the Christian and Islamic governments of Europe had restricted the architecture and design of synagogues and often prevented Jews from becoming architects. Stiefel presents a study of the material culture and religious architecture that this era produced.
Leopold Eidlitz's Architectural Theories and American Transcendentalism
Author: Biruta ErdmannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Encyclopedia of Bohemian and Czech-American Biography
Author: Miloslav Rechcigl Jr.Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524620696
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description
As the Czech ambassador to the United States, H. E. Petr Gandalovic noted in his foreword to this book that Mla Rechcgl has written a monumental work representing a culmination of his life achievement as a historian of Czech America. The Encyclopedia of Bohemian and Czech American Biography is a unique and unparalleled publication. The enormity of this undertaking is reflected in the fact that it covers a universe, starting a few decades after the discovery of the New World, through the escapades and significant contributions of Bohemian Jesuits and Moravian brethren in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the mass migration of the Czechs after the revolutionary year of 1848, and up to the early years of the twentieth century and the influx of refugees from Nazism and communism. The encyclopedia has been planned as a representative, a comprehensive and authoritative reference tool, encompassing over 7,500 biographies. This prodigious and unparalleled encyclopedic vade mecum, reflecting enduring contributions of notable Americans with Czech roots, is not only an invaluable tool for all researchers and students of Czech American history but is also a carte blanche for the Czech Republic, which considers Czech Americans as their own and as a part of its magnificent cultural history.
A History of Western Architecture
Author: David WatkinPublisher: Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: 9781856694599
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
The history of Western architecture from the earliest times in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the dramatic impact of CAD on architectural practice at the beginning of the 21st century.