American Architects and Texts
Title | American Architects and Texts PDF eBook |
Author | Juan Pablo Bonta |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 452 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780262024006 |
In this volume the author analyzes 400 architectural books and articles published over the past 150 years to reveal changing societal preferences in architecture and to measure the reputations of individual architects - the text includes a ranked list of the 100 most famous architects.
Three American Architects
Title | Three American Architects PDF eBook |
Author | James F. O'Gorman |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 1992-09-15 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780226620725 |
''Discusses the individual and collective achievement of the three American architects.''--
Discover America's Favorite Architects
Title | Discover America's Favorite Architects PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Brown Glenn |
Publisher | Wiley |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1996-11-04 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780471143543 |
In this wonderful collection of short biographies, you'll meet a fascinating group of women and men from many different backgrounds. The one trait they have in common is their passion for creating beautiful buildings. The architects you will discover in this book are important both for the buildings they created and for their leadership in developing new designs, construction techniques, and ideas about the role of architecture in our culture. Award-winning author Patricia Brown Glenn takes you on a wondrous journey across time and space and introduces you to each gifted artist. You'll learn how they became interested in architecture, the inspiration for their ideas, and how they influenced their contemporaries as well as later generations of architects. You'll also take a closer look at each architect's most glorious projects. And there are plenty of surprises along the way. Did you know that Thomas Jefferson, writer of the Declaration of Independence and one of our most memorable presidents, was also America's first great architect? You'll also discover the woman who designed William Randolph Hearst's fabled mansion, San Simeon; the architect who, in the 1940s, was banned from building his home in Los Angeles' fanciest suburb because he was black; and the Asian-American who has created some of our most impressive office towers, museums, and libraries. Complete with more than 100 colorful drawings from illustrator Joe Stites, Discover America's Favorite Architects is fun as well as informative. It is a terrific source for writing school reports, a great companion for family vacations, and an inspiration for young readers who might want to grow up to be architects one day.
American Architects and Their Books to 1848
Title | American Architects and Their Books to 1848 PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Hafertepe |
Publisher | Studies in Print Culture and t |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN |
Since the Renaissance, books and drawings have been a primary means of communication among architects and their colleagues and clients. In this volume, 12 historians explore the use of books by architects in America in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a period when the profession of architecture was first emerging in the United States.
Architects on Architecture
Title | Architects on Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Heyer |
Publisher | Van Nostrand Reinhold Company |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Architecture |
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Based on interviews with leading architects, this book presents their thoughts on architectural theory and practice.
A Concise History of American Architecture
Title | A Concise History of American Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | Leland M. Roth |
Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN |
Explores the factors and influences that have enriched American architecture throughout its development from colonial times to the present, covering houses, apartments, factories, and office buildings and the architects who designed them.
Atlas of Another America
Title | Atlas of Another America PDF eBook |
Author | Keith Krumwiede |
Publisher | Park Publishing (WI) |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Architecture and society |
ISBN | 9783038600022 |
"Owning a home is a cornerstone of the American Dream, the ultimate status symbol in the land of the free. But is the dream in crisis? Mass-marketed and endlessly multiplied, the suburban single-family house has become an instrument of global economic calamity and ongoing environmental catastrophe. Never before have we been so badly in need of a reassessment of our cultural values from an architectural perspective."--Back cover.