Author: David VeaseyPublisher: Fonthill Media
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
New Jersey's Colonial Architecture Told in 100 Buildings
Author: David VeaseyPublisher: Fonthill Media
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Early Architecture of Cape May County, New Jersey
Author: Joan BerkeyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780615190969
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Colonial Architecture for Those about to Build
Author: Herbert Clifton WisePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Architecture and Building
Author: Architectural Record
Author: Plainfield, New Jersey's History and Architecture
Author: John GradyPublisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780764329159
Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Tour homes in Plainfield, New Jersey, many of which have sheltered several generations. Images of brick, wood, and stone buildings and their occupants relate the city's heritage. Here residents worshipped, learned, purchased worldly goods, and conducted their daily businesses. See many homes as they first appeared and were transformed over the past three centuries. They have shaped Plainfield, New Jersey, into the city it is today.
Dutch Colonial Homes in America
Author: Roderic H. BlackburnPublisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This lavishly-illustrated volume provides an unprecedented look at twenty-eight houses (plus eleven barns and other structures) built in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by Dutch colonists in the north-eastern United States, primarily in upstate New York and along the Hudson River Valley, on Long Island and Staten Island, and in New Jersey. An authoritative work-- written by eminent experts in the field-- "Dutch Colonial Homes in America" explores the homes in their broader social context by focusing on the historical and religious forces of the times. This book is the first to investigate the meaning of the home and its aesthetics for the Dutch in America, and also the first to look at these homes as a form of art and craft and, importantly, the influence this form and these people had on the shape of the American house to come. The 200 spectacular new color photographs here are beautifully styled in a manner that recalls the paintings of Vermeer and evoke what might have been the ambiance of these homes hundreds of years ago.
Building in China
Author: Jeffrey W CodyPublisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
ISBN: 9882378749
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Building in China is about striking an architectural balance between the pull of monumental tradition and the push of technological novelty. Centering on the dynamic period of post-imperial and pre-Communist China, the book focuses on the building and city planning initiatives of Henry Murphy, a little-known American architect who initially ventured to China in 1914 to design a campus for the Yale-in-China programme, but who then found himself captivated by a professional and cultural challenge that lasted two decades: how to preserve China's rich architectural traditions while also designing new buildings using up-to-date Western technologies. Murphy's buildings were compromises — " wine in old bottles" as he once called them — and the book uses those "tles" as lenses through which to understand not only Murphy's quest to find a middle ground for his architecture in China, but also to gaze at a tumultuous society facing an uncertain future. Murphy's buildings were more than vessels for either aesthetic visions or technical expertise; inadvertently they became political emblems, as Chinese rulers such as Chiang Kai-shek and Sun Yat-sen's son called on Murphy for city planning advice to complement their hopes for urban reconstruction. There are few serious studies of Western architects in the twentieth century who practiced in non-Western contexts, and those scant studies that have been published concentrate largely on British, French or Dutch examples in colonial settings. Hence, the book makes significant contributions to the fields of both American and Chinese architectural history.
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