Author: George Evertson WoodwardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Woodward's Victorian Architecture and Rural Art
Author: George Evertson WoodwardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Woodward's Victorian Architecture and Rural Art
Author: George Evertson WoodwardPublisher: [s.l.] : American Life Foundation
ISBN: 9780892570447
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Houses from Books
Author: Daniel D. ReiffPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271044194
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Many homes across America have designs based on plans taken from pattern books or mail-order catalogs. In Houses from Books, Daniel D. Reiff traces the history of published plans and offers the first comprehensive survey of their influence on the structure and the style of American houses from 1738 to 1950. Houses from Books shows that architectural publications, from Palladio&’s I Quattro Libri to Aladdin's Readi-Cut Homes, played a decisive role in every aspect of American domestic building. Reiff discusses the people and the firms who produced the books as well as the ways in which builders and architects adapted the designs in communities throughout the country. His book also offers a wide-ranging analysis of the economic and social conditions shaping American building practices. As architectural publication developed and grew more sophisticated, it played an increasingly prominent part in the design and the construction of domestic buildings. In villages and small towns, which often did not have professional architects, the publications became basic resources for carpenters and builders at all levels of expertise. Through the use of published designs, they were able to choose among a variety of plans, styles, and individual motifs and engage in a fruitful dialogue with past and present architects. Houses from Books reconstructs this dialogue by examining the links between the published designs and the houses themselves. Reiff&’s book will be indispensable to architectural historians, architects, preservationists, and regional historians. Realtors and homeowners will also find it of great interest. A catalog at the end of the book can function as a guide for those attempting to locate a model and a date for a particular design. Houses from Books contains a wealth of photographs, many by the author, that enhance its importance as a history and guide.
New Orleans Architecture: Jefferson City
Author: Friends of the CabildoPublisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455609383
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Traces the development of Uptown New Orleans. A thoroughly researched history of the area tells how the land was transformed from the sprawling plantation to an agricultural suburb and finally to the elegant residential city of the 1870s and after. A complete architectural inventory lists all noteworthy buildings of the neighborhood.
The Way We Ate
Author: Jacqueline B. WilliamsPublisher: Washington State University Press
ISBN: 1636820697
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Probing diaries, letters, business journals, and newspapers for morsels of information, food historian Jackie Williams here follows pioneers from the earliest years of settlement in the Northwest--when smoldering logs in a fireplace stood in for a stove, and water had to be hauled from a stream or well--to the times when railroads brought Pacific Northwest cooks the latest ingredients and implements. The fifty-year journey described in The Way We Ate documents a change from a land with few stores and inadequate housing to one with business establishments bursting with goods and homes decorated with the latest finery. Like she did in her earlier acclaimed volume, Wagon Wheel Kitchens: Food on the Oregon Trail, Williams has in her latest book shed important new light on a little-understood aspect of our past. These tales of a pioneer wife bemoaning her husband’s gift of a cookbook when she really needed more food, or preparing sweets and savories for holiday celebrations when the kitchen was just a tiny space in a one-room log cabin, show another side of the grim-faced pioneers portrayed in movies. Here we encounter real American history and culture, one that vividly portrays the daily lives of the people who won the West--not in Hollywood gun battles, but in the kitchens and fields of a world that has disappeared. Interlacing a lively narrative with the pioneers’ own words, The Way We Ate is truly a feast for those who believe that “much depends on dinner.”
On the Structure of Theory in Architecture as Demonstrated in a Pattern Language
Author: Benjamin ClavanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Victorian Architecture
Author: Mary A. VancePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Victorian
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Architecture in the United States
Author: Dell UptonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192842176
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
From Native American sites in New Mexico and Arizona to the ancient earthworks of the Mississippi Valley to the most fashionable contemporary buildings of Chicago and New York, American architecture is incredibly varied. In this revolutionary interpretation, Upton examines American architecture in relation to five themes: community, nature, technology, money, and art. 109 illustrations. 40 linecuts. Map.
Hearth & Home
Author: George W. McDanielPublisher:
ISBN: 9780877223672
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Woodward's National Architect
Author: George Evertson WoodwardPublisher: American Life Foundation
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description