Author: Ethan Anthony
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393731040
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This book examines the life and works of a major architect whose buildings today surpass him in recognition.
The Architecture of Ralph Adams Cram and His Office
Author: Ethan Anthony
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393731040
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This book examines the life and works of a major architect whose buildings today surpass him in recognition.
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393731040
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This book examines the life and works of a major architect whose buildings today surpass him in recognition.
Ralph Adams Cram: An architect's four quests : medieval, modernist, American, ecumenical
Author: Douglass Shand-Tucci
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN: 9781558494893
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Following in the footsteps of Boston Bohemia, 1881-1900, Douglass Shand-Tucci's widely praised portrait of Ralph Adams Cram's early years, this volume tells the story of Cram's later career as one of America's leading cultural figures and most accomplished architects. With his partner Bertram Goodhue, Cram won a number of important commissions, beginning with the West Point competition in 1903. Although an increasingly bitter rivalry with Goodhue would lead to the dissolution of their partnership in 1912, Cram had already begun to strike out on his own. Supervising architect at Princeton, consulting architect at Wellesley, and head of the MIT School of Architecture, he would also design most of New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine and the campus of Rice University, as well as important church and collegiate structures throughout the country. By the 1920s Cram had become a household name, even appearing on the cover of Time magazine. A complex man, Cram was a leading figure in what Shand-Tucci calls "a full-fledged homosexual monastery" in England, while at the same time married to Elizabeth Read. Their relationship was a complicated one, the effect of which on his children and his career is explored fully in this book. So too is his work as a religious leader and social theorist. Shand-Tucci traces the influence on Cram of such disparate figures as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Phillips Brooks, Henry Adams, and Ayn Rand. He divides Cram's career into four lifelong "quests" medieval, modernist, American, and ecumenical. Some quests may have failed, but in each he left a considerable legacy, ultimately transforming the visual image of American Christianity in the twentieth century. Handsomely illustrated with over 130 photographs and drawings and eight pages of color plates, Ralph Adams Cram can be read on its own or in conjunction with Boston Bohemia, 1881-1900. Together, the two volumes complete what the Christian Century has described as a "superbly researched and captivating biography."
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN: 9781558494893
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Following in the footsteps of Boston Bohemia, 1881-1900, Douglass Shand-Tucci's widely praised portrait of Ralph Adams Cram's early years, this volume tells the story of Cram's later career as one of America's leading cultural figures and most accomplished architects. With his partner Bertram Goodhue, Cram won a number of important commissions, beginning with the West Point competition in 1903. Although an increasingly bitter rivalry with Goodhue would lead to the dissolution of their partnership in 1912, Cram had already begun to strike out on his own. Supervising architect at Princeton, consulting architect at Wellesley, and head of the MIT School of Architecture, he would also design most of New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine and the campus of Rice University, as well as important church and collegiate structures throughout the country. By the 1920s Cram had become a household name, even appearing on the cover of Time magazine. A complex man, Cram was a leading figure in what Shand-Tucci calls "a full-fledged homosexual monastery" in England, while at the same time married to Elizabeth Read. Their relationship was a complicated one, the effect of which on his children and his career is explored fully in this book. So too is his work as a religious leader and social theorist. Shand-Tucci traces the influence on Cram of such disparate figures as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Phillips Brooks, Henry Adams, and Ayn Rand. He divides Cram's career into four lifelong "quests" medieval, modernist, American, and ecumenical. Some quests may have failed, but in each he left a considerable legacy, ultimately transforming the visual image of American Christianity in the twentieth century. Handsomely illustrated with over 130 photographs and drawings and eight pages of color plates, Ralph Adams Cram can be read on its own or in conjunction with Boston Bohemia, 1881-1900. Together, the two volumes complete what the Christian Century has described as a "superbly researched and captivating biography."
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
Author: Henry Adams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Le Mont-Saint-Michel (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Le Mont-Saint-Michel (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Substance of Gothic
Author: Ralph Adams Cram
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Gothic
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Gothic
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Church Symbolism
Author: Frederick Roth Webber
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian art and symbolism
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian art and symbolism
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Ralph Adams Cram, etc. [Photographs and plans, with an introduction.].
Arts and Crafts Architecture
Author: Maureen Meister
Publisher: University Press of New England
ISBN: 1611686644
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
This book offers the first full-scale examination of the architecture associated with the Arts and Crafts movement that spread throughout New England at the turn of the twentieth century. Although interest in the Arts and Crafts movement has grown since the 1970s, the literature on New England has focused on craft production. Meister traces the history of the movement from its origins in mid-nineteenth-century England to its arrival in the United States and describes how Boston architects including H. H. Richardson embraced its tenets in the 1870s and 1880s. She then turns to the next generation of designers, examining buildings by twelve of the region's most prominent architects, eleven men and a woman, who assumed leadership roles in the Society of Arts and Crafts, founded in Boston in 1897. Among them are Ralph Adams Cram, Lois Lilley Howe, Charles Maginnis, and H. Langford Warren. They promoted designs based on historical precedent and the region's heritage while encouraging well-executed ornament. Meister also discusses revered cultural personalities who influenced the architects, notably Ralph Waldo Emerson and art historian Charles Eliot Norton, as well as contemporaries who shared their concerns, such as Louis Brandeis. Conservative though the architects were in the styles they favored, they also were forward-looking, blending Arts and Crafts values with Progressive Era idealism. Open to new materials and building types, they made lasting contributions, with many of their designs now landmarks honored in cities and towns across New England.
Publisher: University Press of New England
ISBN: 1611686644
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
This book offers the first full-scale examination of the architecture associated with the Arts and Crafts movement that spread throughout New England at the turn of the twentieth century. Although interest in the Arts and Crafts movement has grown since the 1970s, the literature on New England has focused on craft production. Meister traces the history of the movement from its origins in mid-nineteenth-century England to its arrival in the United States and describes how Boston architects including H. H. Richardson embraced its tenets in the 1870s and 1880s. She then turns to the next generation of designers, examining buildings by twelve of the region's most prominent architects, eleven men and a woman, who assumed leadership roles in the Society of Arts and Crafts, founded in Boston in 1897. Among them are Ralph Adams Cram, Lois Lilley Howe, Charles Maginnis, and H. Langford Warren. They promoted designs based on historical precedent and the region's heritage while encouraging well-executed ornament. Meister also discusses revered cultural personalities who influenced the architects, notably Ralph Waldo Emerson and art historian Charles Eliot Norton, as well as contemporaries who shared their concerns, such as Louis Brandeis. Conservative though the architects were in the styles they favored, they also were forward-looking, blending Arts and Crafts values with Progressive Era idealism. Open to new materials and building types, they made lasting contributions, with many of their designs now landmarks honored in cities and towns across New England.
Ralph Adams Cram: An architect's four quests : medieval, modernist, American, ecumenical
Author: Douglass Shand-Tucci
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architects
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architects
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Polychromy
Author: Léon Victor Solon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Color in architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Color in architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The Ministry of Art
Author: Ralph Adams Cram
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description