Des Moines Architecture Design

Author : Jay Pridmore
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625854838
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Des Moines Architecture & Design written by Jay Pridmore and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Des Moines boasts a remarkable architectural portfolio rich in depth and quality. The town drew wide attention in the nineteenth century with structures like the Iowa State Capitol and the Terrace Hill mansion. Des Moines embraced the City Beautiful movement in the twentieth century and became home to well-known work by Eliel and Eero Saarinen, notably the city's innovative Art Center. A contemporary architectural renaissance produced lauded landmarks like the Meredith Headquarters, the Des Moines Public Library and the John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park. Author Jay Pridmore crafts an illustrated survey of the architecture and design of Iowa's largest city.

Author : Jay Pridmore
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1626199752
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Des Moines Architecture & Design written by Jay Pridmore and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Des Moines boasts a remarkable architectural portfolio rich in depth and quality. The town drew wide attention in the nineteenth century with structures like the Iowa State Capitol and the Terrace Hill mansion. Des Moines embraced the City Beautiful movement in the twentieth century and became home to well-known work by Eliel and Eero Saarinen, notably the city's innovative Art Center. A contemporary architectural renaissance produced lauded landmarks like the Meredith Headquarters, the Des Moines Public Library and the John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park. Author Jay Pridmore crafts an illustrated survey of the architecture and design of Iowa's largest city.

Author : David Chipperfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500294543
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book David Chipperfield Architects written by David Chipperfield and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir David Chipperfield is of one of Britain's leading architects. Renowned for his quiet and thoughtful style, he has a huge international reputation and has created works in China, Japan, Italy, USA, Spain and Germany. Chipperfield produces sophisticated buildings, from museums to homes, with an acute sensitivity for materials and a powerful awareness of their environment. This revised and expanded book presents projects spanning Chipperfield's entire career. Each has a project profile, many accompanied by specially commissioned photographs, along with a complete project chronology. Among the featured works are the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames, the Neues Museum Berlin, BBC Scotland at Pacific Quay, The Hepworth Wakefield, Turner Contemporary Margate, Naga Museum Sudan and Fayland House. This new edition includes 34 new projects, including One Pancras Square and the Royal Academy extension.

Author : John Beldon Scott
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587297620
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The University of Iowa Guide to Campus Architecture written by John Beldon Scott and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The University of Iowa boasts an outstanding ensemble of buildings whose stylistic diversity reflects the breadth of Iowa’s contributions to research, education, and creative activities. In this first comprehensive guide to the university’s architecture, authors John Scott and Rodney Lehnertz reveal the artistic integrity, intellectual inspiration, and cutting-edge function of the campus buildings. Scott and Lehnertz highlight seventy-eight buildings that they consider architecturally significant, from the Greek Revival style of Old Capitol at the center of the Pentacrest, designed by John Francis Rague of Springfield, Illinois, to Art Building West, a work of art in itself designed by Steven Holl of New York City. The buildings are arranged in eleven campus zones, each illustrated with a map: Pentacrest, Iowa Avenue Campus, Main Campus North, Main Campus South, River Valley Campus, Arts Campus, Near West Campus, Medical Campus, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Campus, Athletics Campus, and Oakdale Research Campus. Each building is presented with one or two pages of text, giving its architectural history and its noteworthy features, and one to three photographs, most of which were taken especially for this publication. The introductory essays provide both personal recollections and historical information about the diverse styles of campus architecture. Particularly valuable are the lists of all the extant campus buildings that the authors considered worthy of inclusion organized by building names, the names of their principal and project architects, and the date completed or occupied; another list contains information about notable campus sculptures. Also included are an essay about long-time campus architect George Horner and a highly useful glossary.Current students and their parents, alumni, and professional and amateur architecture enthusiasts will appreciate this copiously illustrated, accessible, and informative tour of the University of Iowa’s distinctive campus.

Author : Jason Loper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781087500614
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This American House written by Jason Loper and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before designing his signature Usonian houses, Frank Lloyd Wright envisioned an earlier series of affordable models for the middle class: The American System-Built Homes. He developed seven floorplans of varying size and layout, standardized so that materials could be precut at the factory to reduce costs. Only a few years after the project began, the United States entered World War I, and all home construction was stalled due to lumber shortages. Wright then turned his attention to other projects, and with fewer than twenty built, the American System-Built Homes were all but forgotten.In 2011, Jason Loper and Michael Schreiber purchased the only American System-Built Home constructed in Iowa, the Meier House, which set them on a course of refurbishing and researching their new residence. In This American House, Loper and Schreiber trace the history of the Meier House through its previous owners, and shed light on this underexplored period of Wright's oeuvre. With a preface by John H. Waters, the Preservation Programs Manager of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, This American House addresses what it means to be the stewards of a piece of history.

Author : Kenneth M. Moffett
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787143414
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forming and Centering written by Kenneth M. Moffett and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-22 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book a fresh look at the central issues of architecture is assembled and recast into a fully integrated narrative, based on two foundational and complementary aspects of architectural design: those that give shape and those that give focus—forming and centering.

Author : Robin Boyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Puzzle of Architecture written by Robin Boyd and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Publisher : Books Nippan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skidmore, Owings & Merrill written by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and published by Books Nippan. This book was released on 1995 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE MASTER ARCHITECT SERIES is a series of monographs on some of the greatest architects and architectural firms of our time. Each monograph will contain 256 pages displaying several hundred color photographs, drawings, sketches and renderings. Although primarily a pictorial essay, the books will contain selected projects described in concise detail, along with a critique or overview of the firm, a resume of the partners, and a comprehensive bibliography.

Author : Linda Mason Hunter
Publisher : Cooper Square Pub
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southwest Style written by Linda Mason Hunter and published by Cooper Square Pub. This book was released on 2000 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From adobe casitas to log cabins to straw bale homes, this book includes honest, ingenious, and easily adaptable ideas from the heart of the Southwest.

Author : Wesley I. Shank
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iowa's Historic Architects written by Wesley I. Shank and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who were Iowa's historic architects? In this extensively researched dictionary. Wesley Shank answers that question by providing biographies of more than two hundred architects who practiced in Iowa before 1950 and who maintained an office in the state for at least part of their careers. For each architect Shank has gathered as much personal and professional information as possible; dates and places of birth and death; parents, spouses, and children; education and professional training; personality and competency; when and where they practiced, with whom, and when their partnerships began and ended; what roles they played in their communities and their profession; and the representative buildings they designed. As a reflection of both national and state history Iowa's Historic Architects will be valuable to professionals in the fields of architecture. American history, and historic preservation as well as to general readers.