G. E. Kidder Smith Builds

G. E. Kidder Smith Builds
Title G. E. Kidder Smith Builds PDF eBook
Author Angelo Maggi
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2022-07-18
Genre Architectural photography
ISBN 9781954081536

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George Everard Kidder Smith (1913-1997) was a multidimensional figure within the wide-ranging field of North American architectural professionals in the second half of the twentieth century. Although he trained as an architect, he chose not to practice within the conventional strictures of an architecture office. Instead, Kidder Smith "designed," researched, wrote, and photographed a remarkably diverse collection of books about architecture and the built environment. His work and life were deeply interwoven and punctuated by travel related to the research, writing, and promotion of books that sought to reveal the genius loci of the countries whose built environments he admired and wished to share with a broader audience. From the early 1940s to the late 1950s his interest in architecture led him to describe visually the architectural and historical identity of many European countries. After his far-flung travels over the decades, with his wife Dorothea, Kidder Smith focused on his own country and produced a series of ambitious books focused on the United States. Kidder Smith's vision and narrative betray the gaze of the traveler, the scholar, and the architect.

Sweden Builds

Sweden Builds
Title Sweden Builds PDF eBook
Author George Everard Kidder Smith
Publisher
Pages 276
Release 1957
Genre Architecture
ISBN

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Bibliography:p.267-70.

Source Book of American Architecture

Source Book of American Architecture
Title Source Book of American Architecture PDF eBook
Author George Everard Kidder Smith
Publisher Princeton Architectural Press
Pages 696
Release 1996
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9781568980256

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This survey provides a unique overview of 1,000-years of architectural development.

Italy Builds

Italy Builds
Title Italy Builds PDF eBook
Author George Everard Kidder Smith
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 1955
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9789990899481

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The Design-Build Studio

The Design-Build Studio
Title The Design-Build Studio PDF eBook
Author Tolya Stonorov
Publisher Routledge
Pages 486
Release 2017-09-20
Genre Architecture
ISBN 131730795X

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The Design-Build Studio examines sixteen international community driven design-build case studies through process and product, with preceding chapters on community involvement, digital and handcraft methodologies and a graphic Time Map. Together these projects serve as a field guide to the current trends in academic design-build studios, a window into the different processes and methodologies being taught and realized today. Design-build supports the idea that building, making and designing are intrinsic to each other: knowledge of one strengthens and informs the expression of the other. Hands-on learning through the act of building what you design translates theories and ideas into real world experience. The work chronicled in this book reveals how this type of applied knowledge grounds us in the physicality of the world in which we live.

Modern in the Middle

Modern in the Middle
Title Modern in the Middle PDF eBook
Author Susan Benjamin
Publisher The Monacelli Press, LLC
Pages 346
Release 2020-09-01
Genre Architecture
ISBN 1580935265

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The first survey of the classic twentieth-century houses that defined American Midwestern modernism. Famed as the birthplace of that icon of twentieth-century architecture, the skyscraper, Chicago also cultivated a more humble but no less consequential form of modernism--the private residence. Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929-75 explores the substantial yet overlooked role that Chicago and its suburbs played in the development of the modern single-family house in the twentieth century. In a city often associated with the outsize reputations of Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the examples discussed in this generously illustrated book expand and enrich the story of the region's built environment. Authors Susan Benjamin and Michelangelo Sabatino survey dozens of influential houses by architects whose contributions are ripe for reappraisal, such as Paul Schweikher, Harry Weese, Keck & Keck, and William Pereira. From the bold, early example of the "Battledeck House" by Henry Dubin (1930) to John Vinci and Lawrence Kenny's gem the Freeark House (1975), the generation-spanning residences discussed here reveal how these architects contended with climate and natural setting while negotiating the dominant influences of Wright and Mies. They also reveal how residential clients--typically middle-class professionals, progressive in their thinking--helped to trailblaze modern architecture in America. Though reflecting different approaches to site, space, structure, and materials, the examples in Modern in the Middle reveal an abundance of astonishing houses that have never been collected into one study--until now.

Looking at Architecture

Looking at Architecture
Title Looking at Architecture PDF eBook
Author George Everard Kidder Smith
Publisher ABRAMS
Pages 176
Release 1990
Genre Architecture
ISBN

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"In more than 50 years of architectural endeavors, the author photographed and researched most of the world's notable buildings for his books, exhibitions, and lectures. Here he focuses on 80 remarkable architectural achievements: classics like the Pyramids, the Parthenon, . and the Taj Mahal, but also lesser-known places--like the Abbey of Pomposa in Italy, the Turkish Mosque in Djerba, Tunisia, the Whipple House in Ipswich, Massachusetts--which have spoken as eloquently to him. Both the grand monuments and the little gems are vivified by Kidder Smith's inquisitive camera. Each photograph is paired with a text to stimulate appreciation of the art of architecture. While imparting much valuable information, the text more importantly aims to capture the spirit of a place, as Kidder Smith discusses the history, highlights what is significant, reveals his own enthusiasms, and suggests paths for further thought."--Résumé de l'éditeur.