Architectural Ragtime

Author : Chris Dimattei
Publisher : Univ Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781621900900
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architectural Ragtime written by Chris Dimattei and published by Univ Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of prominent and prolific architect George F. Barber (1854-1915) can be found across North America. Virtually every major town has a residence designed by the Knoxville-based architect, who created and sold house plans through his innovative mail-order business. Despite his widespread success, little has been written about Barber. In Architectural Ragtime, Michael D. Alcorn and Christopher R. DiMattei provide an unprecedented and comprehensive analysis of Barber and his oeuvre, which is enhanced by extensive contemporary documentation of these historic homes. This study is the first to focus solely on the accomplishments of Barber's business and its influence on the development of architectural design as a professional service rather than as a product. It explores Barber's philosophy that good architectural design should be available and affordable to anyone, even those with the means to build only the most modest of homes. By investigating the remarkable versatility and range of Barber's style and enterprise, this book provides a new perspective on the overall look and impact his houses had on North America's housing legacy. It adds to the mounting evidence that the mail-order plan and kit-house suppliers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were major drivers of the character and improved quality of American neighborhoods. The book examines the development of Barber's artistic taste and the basic architectural forms that he employed to create it. The best of his work qualifies as Queen Anne Victorian, although his extensive repertoire included Romanesque- and Colonial Renaissance-style residences as well. As a businessman, Barber worked to meet client demands, yet he managed to maintain consistently high artistic standards. Replete with hundreds of photographs of Barber dwellings and illustrations that are both revealing and instructive, this volume is a valuable tool for local historians and preservationists seeking to identify, document and evaluate the historic appearance or significance of Victorian-era architecture in general and Barber buildings in particular. Students and scholars of history and architecture as well as historic home enthusiasts will find this an important resource that will enhance their understanding and appreciation of this influential architect.

Author : Michael D. Alcorn
Publisher : Crd Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780999230909
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architectural Ragtime written by Michael D. Alcorn and published by Crd Publications. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the architectural designs of the Geo. F. Barber & Co., with accompanying plans and illustrations. Also includes biographical information.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Western Architect written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donald Leslie Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351913875
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Frank Lloyd Wright's Concrete Adobe written by Donald Leslie Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the years 1919 into 1925 Frank Lloyd Wright worked on four houses and a kindergarten located in metropolitan Los Angeles using concrete blocks as the main building material. The construction system has been described by Wright and others as ’uniquely molded’, ’woven like a textile fabric’ and perceived as ground breaking, truly modern, unprecedented. Many have attempted to uphold these claims while some thought the house-designs borrowed from old exotic buildings. For the first time this book brings together Wright’s declarations, the support of upholders and inferences in order to determine their accuracy and correctness, or the possibility of feigned or fictional stories. It examines technical developments of concrete blocks by Wright and others before his experiences in Los Angeles began in 1919. It also studies the manner of Wright’s design process by an examination of relevant pictorial and textual documents. A unique, in-depth and critical analysis of the houses is set within historical, biographical and theoretical contexts. Consequently, the book explains the impact upon Wright of California contemporaries, architects Irving Gill and Rudolph Schindler, and their instrumentally profound role upon the course of modernism 1907-1923. In doing so, it allows a full appreciation of Wright’s, Gill’s and Schindler’s buildings beyond their experiential qualities.

Author : David Dutkanicz
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486171671
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A First Book of Ragtime written by David Dutkanicz and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These rollicking, easy-to-play ragtime favorites include "Maple Leaf Rag," "The Entertainer," "Tiger Rag," and other melodies by such favorites as Scott Joplin, James Scott, Joseph Lamb, and Eubie Blake. All songs available as downloadable MP3s.

Author : Clyde Woods
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1844675610
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Development Arrested written by Clyde Woods and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of a classic history of the Mississippi River Delta Development Arrested is a major reinterpretation of the 200-year-old conflict between African American workers and the planters of the Mississippi Delta. The book measures the impact of the plantation system on those who suffered its depredations firsthand, while tracing the decline and resurrection of plantation ideology in national public policy debate. Despite countless defeats under the planter regime, African Americans in the Delta continued to push forward their agenda for social and economic justice. Throughout this remarkably interdisciplinary book, ranging across fields as diverse as rural studies, musicology, development studies, and anthropology, Woods demonstrates the role of music—including jazz, rock and roll, soul, rap and, above all, the blues—in sustaining a radical vision of social change.

Author : Clyde Adrian Woods
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859848111
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Development Arrested written by Clyde Adrian Woods and published by Verso. This book was released on 1998 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Development Arrested is a major reinterpretation of the two-centuries-old conflict between African American workers and the planters of the Mississippi Delta. Ranging across disciplines as diverse as rural studies, musicology, development studies and anthropology, it provides a unique assessment of the impact of the plantation system on those who suffered its depredations at first hand.

Author : Alexander Von Hoffman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195176148
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book House by House, Block by Block written by Alexander Von Hoffman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on years of research, this is the inspiring story of the dramatic revitalization of urban wastelands from Los Angeles to Chicago to Boston and the grassroots organizations and leaders that helped bring it about. 30 line illustrations.

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Total Pages : 1514 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Architect and the Architectural Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joshua Comaroff
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452970254
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Horror in Architecture written by Joshua Comaroff and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of this extensive visual analysis of horror tropes and their architectural analogues Horror in Architecture presents an unflinching look at how horror genre tropes manifest in the built environment. Spanning the realms of art, design, literature, and film, this newly revised and expanded edition compiles examples from all areas of popular culture to form a visual anthology of the architectural uncanny. Rooted in the Romantic and Gothic treatment of horror as a serious aesthetic category, Horror in Architecture establishes incisive links between contemporary horror media and its parallel traits found in various architectural designs. Through chapters dedicated to distorted and monstrous buildings, abandoned spaces, extremes of scale, and other structural peculiarities, and featuring new essays on insurgent natures, blobs, and architectural puppets, this volume brings together diverse architectural anomalies and shows how their unsettling effects deepen our fascination with the unreal. Intended for both horror fans and students of visual culture, Horror in Architecture turns a unique lens on the relationship between the human body and the artificial landscapes it inhabits. Extensively illustrated with photographs, film stills, and diagrams, this book retrieves horror from the cultural fringes and demonstrates how its attributes permeate the modern condition and the material world.