Author: Lewis MumfordPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Sticks and Stones
Author: Lewis MumfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Sticks and Stones: A Study of American Architecture and Civilization
Author: Lewis MumfordPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
A classic of American cultural history, Sticks and Stones is a discussion of early New England towns, Colonial and Federal architectural periods, and various important 19th-century architects like Henry Hobson Richardson. You will enjoy learning about the architecture making up some of the most beautiful towns in the United States.
Sticks and Stones
Author: L. MumfordSticks and Stones
Author: Lewis MumfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Sticks and Stones
Author: William BurnsideSticks and stones, a study of american architecture and civilization
Author: Sticks and Stones, a Study of American Architecture and Civilization. Lewis Mumford
Author: Lewis MumfordSticks and Stones; a Study of American Architecture and Civilization
Author: Lewis Mumford (Architekturtheoretiker)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Sticks and Stones
Author: Mumford LewisPublisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
For a hundred years or so after its settlement, there lived and flourished in America a type of community which was rapidly disappearing in Europe. This community was embodied in villages and towns whose mummified remains even today have a rooted dignity that the most gigantic metropolises do not often possess. If we would understand the architecture of America in a period when good building was almost universal, we must understand something of the kind of life that this community fostered.The capital example of the medieval tradition lies in the New England village.There are two or three things that stand in the way of our seeing the life of a New England village; and one of them is the myth of the pioneer, the conception of the first settlers as a free band of "Americans" throwing off the bedraggled garments of Europe and starting life afresh in the wilderness. So far from giving birth to a new life, the settlement[14] of the northern American seaboard prolonged for a little while the social habits and economic institutions which were fast crumbling away in Europe, particularly in England. In the villages of the New World there flickered up the last dying embers of the medieval order.Whereas in England the common lands were being confiscated for the benefit of an aristocracy, and the arable turned into sheep-runs for the profit of the great proprietors, in New England the common lands were re-established with the founding of a new settlement. In England the depauperate peasants and yeomen were driven into the large towns to become the casual workers, menials, and soldiers; in New England, on the other hand, it was at first only with threats of punishment and conscription that the town workers were kept from going out into the countryside to seek a more independent living from the soil. Just as the archaic speech of the Elizabethans has lingered in the Kentucky Mountains, so the Middle Ages at their best lingered along the coast of Appalachia; and in the organization of our New England villages one sees a greater resemblance to the medieval Utopia of Sir Thomas More than to the classic republic in the style of Montesquieu, [15] which was actually founded in the eighteenth century.
Author: Lewis Mumford