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Rome: A Living Portrait of an Ancient City - Paperback

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by Stephen L. Dyson (Author)Stephen L. Dyson has spent a lifetime studying and teaching the history of ancient Rome. That unparalleled knowledge is reflected in his magisterial overview of the Eternal City.Rather than look only at the physical development of the city--its buildings, monuments, and urban spaces--Dyson also explores its social, economic, and cultural histories. This unique approach situates Rome against a background of comparative urban history and theory, allowing Dyson to exa...

The Old Stones of Kingston: Its Buildings Before 1867 - Paperback

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by Margaret Angus (Author)Margaret Angus presents the stories of some of the architecturally and historically important limestone buildings, and of their owners, and thus tells the story of Kingston from the landing of the Empire Loyalists in 1784, through its brief period as capital of Canada (1841-43) up to Confederation.Author BiographyMargaret Angus, LL.D. has lived in Kingston since 1937, and now serves as Historical Consultant to government and private institutions. Number of P...

Back to Nature: The Arcadian Myth in Urban America - Paperback

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by Peter J. Schmitt (Author)Peter J. Schmitt describes the many ways in which America's urban middle class became involved with nature from the turn of the century to shortly after World War I, and he assess the influence of the "Arcadian myth" on American culture. With sympathy and gentle irony, he surveys the manifestations of the American love affair with the country: summer camps, the beginnings of wildlie protection and the conservation crusade, landscaped cemeteris, "Christian ornitholo...

The Rough Road to Renaissance: Urban Revitalization in America, 1940-1985 - Paperback

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by Jon C. Teaford (Author)After prospering in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, America's great urban centers faced economic, demographic, and political decline during the depression of the 1930s. When the Second World War brought economic recovery, politicians and planners of the 1940s confidently anticipated a new golden age for big cities. But the postwar boom never came, and urban America has been waiting for the "renaissance" ever since. In"The Rough Road to Renaissance", Jon...

'Designing Women': Gender and the Architectural Profession - Paperback

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by Annmarie Adams (Author), Peta Tancred (Author)Women architects in Canada have reacted with ingenuity to the architectural profession's restrictive and sometimes discriminatory practices, contributing major innovations in practice and design to the field. Number of Pages: 204 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9.02 x 6.06 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: May 18, 2000

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by William H. Wilson (Author)Winner of the Lewis Mumford Prize from the Society for American City and Regional Planning HistoryWinner of the Outstanding Book in Architecture and Urban Planning Award from the Association of American PublishersCritics of the turn-of-the-century's City Beautiful Movement denounced its projects--broad, tree-lined boulevards and monumental but low-lying civic buildings--as grandiose and unnecessary. In this masterful analysis, William H. Wilson sees the movement a...

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by Robert E. Grese (Author)Jens Jensen was one of America's greatest landscape designers and conservationists. Using native plants and "fitting" designs, he advocated that our gardens, parks, roads, playgrounds, and cities should be harmonious with nature and its ecological processes--a belief that was to become a major theme of modern American landscape design. In Jens Jensen: Maker of Natural Parks and Gardens, Robert E. Grese draws on Jensen's writings and plans, interviews with people who...

Finding Order in Nature: The Naturalist Tradition from Linnaeus to E. O. Wilson - Paperback

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by Paul Lawrence Farber (Author)Since emerging as a discipline in the middle of the eighteenth century, natural history has been at the heart of the life sciences. It gave rise to the major organizing theory of life--evolution--and continues to be a vital science with impressive practical value. Central to advanced work in ecology, agriculture, medicine, and environmental science, natural history also attracts enormous popular interest.In Finding Order in Nature Paul Farber traces the develop...

The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition, V1 - Paperback

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by Florentino Garcia Martinez (Author), Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar (Author)The complete, authoritative study guide to one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of all time--the Dead Sea Scrolls. This indispensable two-volume compendium of the Dead Sea Scrolls contains newly edited English translations and summaries of all the biblical and nonbiblical scrolls found at Qumran. Designed as a practical reference tool to facilitate study of the Scrolls, these volumes will be an essential addit...

The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition, V2 - Paperback

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by Florentino Garcia Martinez (Author)The complete, authoritative study guide to one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of all time--the Dead Sea Scrolls. This indispensable two-volume compendium of the Dead Sea Scrolls contains newly edited English translations and summaries of all the biblical and nonbiblical scrolls found at Qumran. Designed as a practical reference tool to facilitate study of the Scrolls, these volumes will be an essential addition to the library of anyone interes...

Wilderness by Design: Landscape Architecture and the National Park Service - Paperback

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by Ethan Carr (Author)Tracing the history of landscape park design from British gardens up through the city park designs of Frederick Law Olmsted, Ethan Carr places national park landscape architecture within a larger historical context. Despite the difficulties now confronting the parks, their continued ability to attract millions of visitors suggests that their creators succeeded in presenting a captivating vision of a once-wild America. Ethan Carr is a landscape architect and is currently ...

Sustainable Compromises: A Yurt, a Straw Bale House, and Ecological Living - Paperback

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by Alan Boye (Author)Living simply isn't always simple. When Alan Boye first lived in sustainable housing, he was young, idealistic, and not much susceptible to compromise--until rattlesnakes, black widow spiders, and loneliness drove him out of the utilities-free yurt he'd built in New Mexico. Thirty-five years later, he decided to try again. This time, with an idealism tempered by experience and practical considerations, Boye and his wife constructed an off-the-grid, energy-efficient, straw...

A Harmony of the Arts: The Nebraska State Capitol - Paperback

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by Frederick C. Luebke (Editor)Since its completion in 1932, the Nebraska State Capitol has been widely recognized as an architectural masterpiece, one that justifiably inspires pride in the citizens of the state and admiration in people everywhere. Rising four hundred feet from a massive two-story base, domed with gold-glazed tile and topped with a bronze statue of a pioneer sower of grain, it can be seen for miles on the plains. This most striking of statehouses, designed by Bertram Grosven...

Skyline: The Narcissistic City - Paperback

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by Hubert Damisch (Author), John Goodman (Translator)One of today's foremost art historians and critics presents a strikingly original view of architecture and the city through the twin lenses of cultural theory and psychoanalysis. Hubert Damisch--whose work on the history of perspective, the notion of imitation, and the question of representation has emerged as the most important body of critical thought on painting since, perhaps, Meyer Shapiro's collected essays--here engages a subject tha...

Museum Memories: History, Technology, Art - Paperback

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by Didier Maleuvre (Author)From its inception in the early nineteenth century, the museum has been more than a mere historical object; it has manufactured an image of history. In collecting past artifacts, the museum gives shape and presence to history, defining the space of a ritual encounter with the past. The museum believes in history, yet it behaves as though history could be summarized and completed. By building a monument to the end of history and lifting art out of the turmoil of hist...

Vernacular Modernism: Heimat, Globalization, and the Built Environment - Paperback

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by Maiken Umbach (Editor), Bernd Hüppauf (Editor)Vernacular Modernism challenges the common perception of modern architecture as the example of an internationalism which eradicates local traditions and transforms the globe into a faceless urban sprawl. The essays trace the vernacular in some of modernity's most paradigmatic sites--both real and imagined. They engage in a search for an idiom that mediates between place and space, the vernacular and the abstract in architecture, from its early ...

The House the Rockefellers Built: A Tale of Money, Taste, and Power in Twentieth-Century America - Paperback

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by Robert F. Dalzell Jr. (Author), Lee Baldwin Dalzell (Author)The Dalzells . . . do an astonishing job of placing Kykuit in historical context while weaving the larger-than-life Rockefeller personalities into its very walls and hallways.--Los Angeles Times One hundred years ago America's richest man established a dynastic seat, the granite-clad Kykuit, high above the Hudson River. John D. Rockefeller, who detested ostentation, had something simple in mind--at least until his son John Jr. an...

Cherry Creek Gothic: Victorian Architecture in Denver - Paperback

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by Sandra Dallas (Author)"Almost every citizen is laudably ambitious to build a house unlike that of his neighbor," wrote an observer in early Denver, "and is more desirous that it shall have some novel feature than that it shall be surpassingly beautiful." This history of early Denver has over two hundred illustrations of buildings designed by nouveaux riches miners and frontier businessmen who had more money and fanciful imagination than taste. There is also a picture map of the business di...

Framing the Sacred: The Indian Churches of Early Colonial Mexico - Paperback

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by Eleanor Wake (Author)Christian churches erected in Mexico during the early colonial era represented the triumph of European conquest and religious domination. Or did they? Building on recent research that questions the "cultural" conquest of Mesoamerica, Eleanor Wake shows that colonial Mexican churches also reflected the beliefs of the indigenous communities that built them. European authorities failed to recognize that the meaning of the edifices they so admired was being challenged: pre...

Goff on Goff: Conversations and Lectures - Paperback

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by Phillip B. Welch (Editor), Arthur Dyson (Foreword by)Architect Bruce Goff was not afraid to be different. One of the most innovative designers the United States has produced in the twentieth century-a member of a select band that included Frank Lloyd Wright (with whom Goff worked), Louis Sullivan, and Mies Van der Rohe-he rode the crest of the architectural wave that swept through the country with the post-World War II technological revolution.In the 1950s, when Goff was head of the Univer...

Bruce Goff: Architecture of Discipline in Freedom - Hardcover

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by Arn Henderson (Author) Renowned today as one of the most important architects of the twentieth century, Bruce Goff (1904-1982) was only twelve years old when a Tulsa architectural firm took him on as an apprentice. Throughout his career he defied expectations, not only as a designer of innovative buildings but also as a gifted educator and painter. This beautifully illustrated volume, featuring more than 150 photographs, architectural drawings, and color plates, explores the vast multitude...

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by J. Michael Desmond (Author)The core of the LSU campus is an example of what we can do when we set our sights high. It stands out today as one of the most successful and inspiring examples in the state, one meant by its architect to become an intuitive course in architecture for the students, spreading the influence of its ideals and inspirations across the highlands and lowlands of Louisiana. from The Architecture of LSU When viewed from the technical vantage point of an architect, the dis...

The Crosby Arboretum: A Sustainable Regional Landscape - Hardcover

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by Robert F. Brzuszek (Author), Neil G. Odenwald (Foreword by)Since its genesis in 1980, Crosby Arboretum in southern Mississippi has attracted international recognition for its contributions to architecture, biology, and landscape design. Now owned and operated by Mississippi State University, Crosby is the first fully realized ecologically designed arboretum in the United States and the premier native plant conservatory in the Southeast.Former site director and curator Robert F. Brzuszek pr...

Using Plants for Stormwater Management: A Green Infrastructure Guide for the Gulf South - Paperback

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by Dana Nunez Brown (Author)The subtropical climate of the Gulf South supports a varied abundance of flora, and this diversity is sustained by the ample amount of rainwater that characterizes the region. Managing rainwater in a planned environment and mitigating its effect on human habitation can test the skills of even the most seasoned landscape architect or designer. That challenge has never been more acute as increased human demand for natural resources compels professionals and home gard...

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by Catherine W. Bishir (Author)This award-winning, lavishly illustrated history displays the wide range of North Carolina's architectural heritage, from colonial times to the beginning of World War II. North Carolina Architecture addresses the state's grand public and private buildings that have become familiar landmarks, but it also focuses on the quieter beauty of more common structures: farmhouses, barns, urban dwellings, log houses, mills, factories, and churches. These buildings, like th...

The Chesapeake House: Architectural Investigation by Colonial Williamsburg - Hardcover

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by Cary Carson (Editor), Carl R. Lounsbury (Editor)For more than thirty years, the architectural research department at Colonial Williamsburg has engaged in comprehensive study of early buildings, landscapes, and social history in the Chesapeake region. Its painstaking work has transformed our understanding of building practices in the colonial and early national periods and thereby greatly enriched the experience of visiting historic sites. In this beautifully illustrated volume, a team of h...

Gothic Arches, Latin Crosses: Anti-Catholicism and American Church Designs in the Nineteenth Century - Paperback

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by Ryan K. Smith (Author)Crosses, candles, choir vestments, sanctuary flowers, and stained glass are common church features found in nearly all mainline denominations of American Christianity today. Most Protestant churchgoers would be surprised to learn, however, that at one time these elements were viewed with suspicion as foreign implements associated strictly with the Roman Catholic Church. Blending history with the study of material culture, Ryan K. Smith sheds light on the ironic conver...

Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery - Paperback

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by John Michael Vlach (Author)Behind the "Big Houses" of the antebellum South existed a different world, socially and architecturally, where slaves lived and worked. John Michael Vlach explores the structures and spaces that formed the slaves' environment. Through photographs and the words of former slaves, he portrays the plantation landscape from the slaves' own point of view.The plantation landscape was chiefly the creation of slaveholders, but Vlach argues convincingly that slaves imbued ...

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by Guy Gugliotta (Author)The history of the modern United States Capitol, the iconic seat of the U.S. government, is also the history of America's most tumultuous years. As the majestic new building rose above Washington's skyline, battles over slavery and secession were ripping the country apart. Ground was broken just months after Congress adopted the compromise of 1850. Workers began to bolt the Capitol's 9-million-pound cast-iron dome into place in 1856. The statue Freedom was placed atop...

Creating Colonial Williamsburg: The Restoration of Virginia's Eighteenth-Century Capital - Paperback

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by Anders Greenspan (Author)In Creating Colonial Williamsburg, Anders Greenspan examines the restoration and re-creation of the structures and gardens of Virginia's colonial capital beginning in 1926. The restoration was undertaken by the Rockefeller family, whose aim was to promote a twentieth-century appreciation for eighteenth-century ideals. Ironically, those ideals, including democracy, individualism, and representative government, were often promoted at the expense of a more complete un...

Guide to the Historic Architecture of Eastern North Carolina - Paperback

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by Catherine W. Bishir (Author), Michael T. Southern (Author)Eastern North Carolina boasts some of the oldest and most distinctive architecture in the state, from colonial churches and antebellum plantation houses to the imperiled lighthouses of the late nineteenth century. The more recent history of this predominantly agricultural region includes landscapes of small farmsteads, country churches, factories, tobacco barns, quiet maritime villages, and market towns. In their guide to this rich ...

Little House For A Grand Life: Tiny House Architecture For An Adventure Independent Of Location - Paperback

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by Larry Windes (Author)Are you interested in unique traveling opportunities with your own tiny home? Have you been looking for an independent business solution? Or are you just curious to explore the world of tiny living?Tiny dwellings are revolutionizing the way we live and work as they enable us to embrace a sense of adventure. In "Little House For a Grand Life, " architect Larry Windes expertly showcases the potential of this unique type of lightweight home. With his book, you will get a ...