Author: Peter Pennoyer Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 9780393730876 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 302
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The firm of Delano & Aldrich occupied a central place in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century, substantially shaping the architectural climate of the period.
Author: Peter Pennoyer Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 9780393732221 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 298
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The first close look at an innovative architect and inventor who held that traditional styles could be successfully adapted for modern times. In the final decade of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century, the United States experienced exponential growth and a flourishing economy, and with it, a building boom. Grosvenor Atterbury (1869–1956) produced more than one hundred major projects, including an array of grand mansions, picturesque estates, informal summer cottages, and farm groups. However, it was his role as town planner and civic leader and his work to create model tenements, hospitals, workers’ housing, and town plans for which he is most celebrated. His Forest Hills Gardens, designed in association with the Olmsted Brothers, is lauded as one of the most highly significant community planning projects of its time. As an inventor, Atterbury was responsible for one of the country’s first low-cost, prefabricated concrete construction systems, introducing beauty and inexpensive good design into the lives of the working classes. The Architecture of Grosvenor Atterbury is the first book to showcase the rich and varied repertoire of this prolific architect whose career spanned six decades and whose work affected the course of American architecture, planning, and construction. Illustrated with Jonathan Wallen’s stunning color photographs and over 250 historic drawings, plans, and photographs, it also includes a catalogue raisonné and an employee roster. It is the definitive source on an architect who made an indelible imprint on the American landscape.
Author: Harold Kirker Publisher: ISBN: 9780674182219 Category : Languages : en Pages : 424
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Charles Bulfinch (1763-1844), son of a wealthy and cultivated Boston family, exerted a wide influence on architecture in New England. As architect and Boston selectman, he was responsible for the great development of Old Boston. Later he was appointed architect for the final stages of the Capitol in Washington. In this fully illustrated record of commissions, Harold Kirker sets forth the fascinating career of America's first native-born architect.
Author: Peter Pennoyer Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated ISBN: 9780393731620 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 256
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During the first three decades of the twentieth century, Warren & Wetmore was one of the most successful and prolific architectural practices in America.
Author: Richard Hampton Jenrette Publisher: Gibbs Smith ISBN: 0941711765 Category : Architecture, Domestic Languages : en Pages : 232
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This is the story of one man's adventures in acquiring and bringing back to life some of America's most enticing and historically significant dwellings. With the eye of a connoisseur, the business acumen derived from a legendary career in international finance, and a Jeffersonian grasp of classical architecture, Richard Hampton Jenrette reveals his charming, often risky, ventures in the world of old houses.
Author: Kim Coventry Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 9780393730999 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 446
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On Lake Michigan's North Shore, an extraordinary group of cosmopolitan and wealthy clients commissioned havens from the city's bustle during the Gilded Age.
Author: Lewis A. Coffin Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486136868 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 162
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Blueprints, sketches, and exterior and interior photographs showcase the finest examples of 1930s country homes from 70 different architectural firms. A variety of styles are featured, from simple cottages to large estates.
Author: Peter Pennoyer Publisher: Vendome Press ISBN: 9780865652682 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 0
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Combining an inventive spirit with an erudite grasp of architectural history, Peter Pennoyer Architects has been designing elegant, classically based homes in both urban and country settings for two decades. Twenty of the firm's residential projects are featured in this sumptuously illustrated volume, ranging from a triplex in New York to a Spanish Colonial Revival house in San Francisco, from a farmhouse in Virginia to a ranch house in New Mexico. Guided by Peter Pennoyer and Anne Walkers illuminating text, the reader will derive great appreciation for the firm's implementation of classical traditions and skilful adaptation of timeless design to modern life.
Author: Peter Pennoyer
Author: Peter Pennoyer
Author: Delano & Aldrich
Author: Harold Kirker
Author: Peter Pennoyer
Author: Richard Hampton Jenrette
Author: Kim Coventry
Author: Lewis A. Coffin
Author: Leland M. Roth
Author: Peter Pennoyer