Author: Andrew Jackson DowningPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
The Architecture of Country Houses
Author: Andrew Jackson DowningPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
The Architecture of Country Houses
Author: Andrew Jackson DowningPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
American Country Houses of the Thirties
Author: Lewis A. CoffinPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486136868
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
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.
American Country Houses of the Gilded Age
Author: A. LewisPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486141217
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Reproduces all of Sheldon's fascinating and historically important photographs and plans for a total of 97 buildings (93 houses, 4 casinos) built during the 1880s. Approximately 200 illustrations.
100 Country Houses
Author: The Images Publishing GroupPublisher: Images Publishing
ISBN: 1864703326
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The cream of contemporary rural residential architecture.
Long Island Country Houses and Their Architects, 1860-1940
Author: Brendan GillPublisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393038569
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 563
Book Description
An illustrated treasury of the most magnificent Long Island mansions and a compendium of the architects who designed them.
Country Houses and Seaside Cottages of the Victorian Era
Author: William T. ComstockPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486158268
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
This fascinating book presents a series of 44 designs for vacation homes of varying styles and sizes, created over a century ago by a select group of New York and New Jersey architects. Many of them are two-story, and most were intended to be built on low-to-medium budgets. All of them reflect the ideals of comfort and charm and state-of-the-art technology of the Victorian period. The original publishers compiled a splendid variety of designs, presented them as "seaside and country houses" and included designs for a Victorian club house, pavilion, school house, and a "small seaside chapel." A total of 200 illustrations — including perspective views, front and side elevations, and first- and second-story floor plans — depict these appealing designs. Occasionally the architects have specified construction materials and finishing details such as paint, color, and trim, and in all cases they have included the overall anticipated costs, which range from about $500 to about $9,000. The Victorians, of course, loved architectural embellishments of every kind, and it is no small part of the charm of this book to study the profusion of gables, porches, portholes, dormers, porticoes, chimneys, pinnacles, and more, lavished on even the most modest designs. Above all, the houses and cottages appear to be both comfortable and reassuring, appealing reminders of a gracious age long gone. Those studying and working in the fields of architecture, history, and sociology will find in this wonderful book exuberant examples of a rich and charming architectural style. Those who wish to join the growing number of home builders and restorers re-creating Victorian homes will find inspiration in each of these thoughtful designs.
A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America
Author: Andrew Jackson DowningPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Landscape gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
American Houses: The Architecture of Fairfax & Sammons
Author: Mary MiersPublisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Anne Fairfax and Richard Sammons are at the forefront of a movement among architects today who draw inspiration from the wellspring of the classical traditions in architecture. They have developed a body of work that reflects and adheres to the long-held theories of proportion and order passed down through many past generations of scholarship and practice. The firm's office also served as the headquarters for Henry Hope Reid's Classical America, the only organization offering an alternative to modernist aesthetics until the establishment of the Institute of Classical Architecture in 1992. The twenty-four projects in this volume show the firm's consistent focus on classical architectural beauty, whether the chosen style be Palladian, Tuscan, Mediterranean, Georgian, Adamesque, Neo-classical, British or Dutch Colonial, Colonial Revival, or even East Coast Shingle Style, in all of which Fairfax & Sammons are eminently proficient. The projects selected out of the firm's large body of work include country houses located in Connecticut, New York, Virginia, and Florida, including the renovation of town houses and apartments in New York City—all presented in new color photography.
Victorian Cottage Residences
Author: Andrew Jackson DowningPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486142825
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
This incredibly rich, firsthand source for the most popular styles of 19th-century Victorian architecture presents 26 cottage designs — including Gothic, bracketed, Italianate, "rustic," more — and 155 illustrations (includes floor plans).