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Author : Wayne Andrews
Publisher : New York : Free Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)
Download or read book Architecture, Ambition, and Americans written by Wayne Andrews and published by New York : Free Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wayne Andrews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)
Download or read book Architecture, Ambition and Americans written by Wayne Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wayne Andrews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)
Download or read book Architecture, Ambition and Americans written by Wayne Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rachel Carley
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805045635
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Visual Dictionary of American Domestic Architecture written by Rachel Carley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-03-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visual presentation of the many types of houses built in America from the earliest Indian dwellings to designs for futuristic homes.
Author : Leland M. Roth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429708777
Total Pages : 681 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)
Download or read book America Builds written by Leland M. Roth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture requires a broad definition. It involves more than simply questions of style, esoteric theory, or technical progress; it is the physical record of a culture's relationship to its technology and the land, and, most important, of the system of values concerning men's relationships with one another. Hence this volume, like my Concise Hist
Author : Stefan Al
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026203574X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Strip written by Stefan Al and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transformations of the Strip—from the fake Wild West to neon signs twenty stories high to “starchitecture”—and how they mirror America itself. The Las Vegas Strip has impersonated the Wild West, with saloon doors and wagon wheels; it has decked itself out in midcentury modern sleekness. It has illuminated itself with twenty-story-high neon signs, then junked them. After that came Disney-like theme parks featuring castles and pirates, followed by replicas of Venetian canals, New York skyscrapers, and the Eiffel Tower. (It might be noted that forty-two million people visited Las Vegas in 2015—ten million more than visited the real Paris.) More recently, the Strip decided to get classy, with casinos designed by famous architects and zillion-dollar collections of art. Las Vegas became the “implosion capital of the world” as developers, driven by competition, got rid of the old to make way for the new—offering a non-metaphorical definition of “creative destruction.” In The Strip, Stefan Al examines the many transformations of the Las Vegas Strip, arguing that they mirror transformations in America itself. The Strip is not, as popularly supposed, a display of architectural freaks but representative of architectural trends and a record of social, cultural, and economic change. Al tells two parallel stories. He describes the feverish competition of Las Vegas developers to build the snazziest, most tourist-grabbing casinos and resorts—with a cast of characters including the mobster Bugsy Siegel, the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, and the would-be political kingmaker Sheldon Adelson. And he views the Strip in a larger social context, showing that it has not only reflected trends but also magnified them and sometimes even initiated them. Generously illustrated with stunning color images throughout, The Strip traces the many metamorphoses of a city that offers a vivid projection of the American dream.
Author : Juan Pablo Bonta
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262024006
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Architects and Texts written by Juan Pablo Bonta and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Architect written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carter Wiseman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393045642
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)
Download or read book Shaping a Nation written by Carter Wiseman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The critic and historian presents an account of the most influential figures, movements, and buildings that have defined twentieth-century American architecture.
Author : Keith Eggener
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134399243
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Architectural History written by Keith Eggener and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new text presents a collection of recent writings on architecture and urbanism in the United States, with topics ranging from colonial to contemporary times. In terms of content and scope, there is no collection, in or out of print, directly comparable to this one. The essays are drawn from the past twenty years' of publishing in the field, arranged chronologically from colonial to contemporary and accessible in thematic groupings, contextualized and introduced by Keith Eggener. Drawing together 24 illustrated essays by major and emerging scholars in the field, American Architectural History is a valuable resource for students of the history of American art, architecture, urbanism, and material culture.
