Julia Morgan Pb

Author : Mark Anthony Wilson
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 1423636546
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Julia Morgan (pb) written by Mark Anthony Wilson and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julia Morgan, America’s first truly independent female architect, left a legacy of more than 700 buildings, many of which are now designated landmarks, in cities throughout California, as well as in Hawaii, Utah, and Illinois. Her work spanned five decades, and the total of her commissions was greater than any other major American architect, including Frank Lloyd Wright. This book tells the remarkable story of this architectural pioneer, and features text, drawings, and photographs of the many buildings that still exist.

Author : Sara Holmes Boutelle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Julia Morgan, Architect written by Sara Holmes Boutelle and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Julia Morgan one of the first women to graduate in civil engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and the first women to earn a certificate in architecture from Ecole de Beaux-Arts in Paris

Author : Ellen Perry Berkeley
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ARCHIT PLACE FOR WOMEN PB written by Ellen Perry Berkeley and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1989-06-17 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Women have had a recognized place in the profession of architecture since 1888, when Louise Blanchard Bethune became the first woman elected to membership in the American Institute of Architects. This book celebrates more than these one hundred years of women in architecture. The first essay in the book celebrates a remarkable earlier achievement, forty years before Bethune's: the authorship by a woman of the first history of architecture to be published in the United States. And the final essays in the book bring fresh perspectives to a future--to a series of futures--whose indications are visible only sparsely in the present. The place of women in this field has never been more interesting than it is now, with more women than ever before studying to become architects and moving into positions of prominence in their profession. The concerns that prompted this book—what the profession of architecture may mean to women, and what women may mean to the profession of architecture--are the concerns that will occupy many women (and men) for years to come. Passing a centennial not only gives a chance to look back; it also gives an opportunity to look ahead." -- $c Preface.

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Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847869555
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Julia Morgan written by and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julia Morgan was a pioneering woman architect, best known for Hearst Castle, in the vanguard of Beaux-Arts design and style in the first half of the twentieth century. Julia Morgan was truly a pioneer of her time—among other accomplishments, she was the first woman architect to be licensed in California, in 1904. Through her remarkable life and legacy, this book celebrates the Beaux-Arts architecture of California. Focusing on Morgan’s most famous project in the state, Hearst Castle, to which she devoted more than 30 years of her life, this volume also examines, for the first time, Morgan’s fabulous early buildings in the style. Morgan designed more than 700 buildings across California, many of which are designated landmarks today. Deepening the reader’s understanding of California archi-tecture, this book also places into context Morgan’s ambitions, her influences and inspirations, as well as her daily practice and challenges as a woman shaping an extraordinarily prolific and highly successful career in a man’s world. To better understand the Beaux-Arts training Morgan underwent in Paris, the reader is taken through the challenging, highly arduous Ecole des Beaux-Arts curriculum, which Morgan completed, a lone woman among men. Also explored, in detail, is the story of how the studio and kilns of California Faience, a Berkeley ceramic artisan’s shop, became the supplier of tens of thousands of tiles designed by Morgan and overseen by Hearst himself to decorate their architectural master-piece overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

Author : Sally Byrne Woodbridge
Publisher : Abbeville Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bernard Maybeck written by Sally Byrne Woodbridge and published by Abbeville Publishing Group. This book was released on 1992 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As for other patrons so loyal that they often hired him to design more than one house. Maybeck also created two of the most beautiful buildings in all of California: the exhilarating Church of Christ, Scientist, in Berkeley, and the gloriously romantic Palace of Fine Arts, in San Francisco. This incisive overview - the first to feature color reproductions of Maybeck's exquisite interiors and exteriors - analyzes every aspect of his life and work. Not only is his.

Author : Marie Benedict
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593101545
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Personal Librarian written by Marie Benedict and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Instant New York Times Bestseller! A Good Morning America* Book Club Pick! Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR! Named a Notable Book of the Year by the Washington Post! “Historical fiction at its best!”* A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white in order to leave a lasting legacy that enriched our nation, from New York Times bestselling authors Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray. In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture in New York City society and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps create a world-class collection. But Belle has a secret, one she must protect at all costs. She was born not Belle da Costa Greene but Belle Marion Greener. She is the daughter of Richard Greener, the first Black graduate of Harvard and a well-known advocate for equality. Belle’s complexion isn’t dark because of her alleged Portuguese heritage that lets her pass as white—her complexion is dark because she is African American. The Personal Librarian tells the story of an extraordinary woman, famous for her intellect, style, and wit, and shares the lengths she must go to—for the protection of her family and her legacy—to preserve her carefully crafted white identity in the racist world in which she lives.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Author : Julian Davison
Publisher : Oro Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781935935476
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Swan and Maclaren written by Julian Davison and published by Oro Editions. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swan & Maclaren were one of the main architectural practices working in Singapore from their foundation in 1892 through to independence in 1965. As such, the history of Singapore architecture, during that period, is very much the history of Swan & Maclaren. The output of the firm was extraordinary, ranging from corporate blockbusters like the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank and the Union Building of the 1920s, to factories, shophouses, department stores, hotels, schools and university buildings, railway stations, churches, mosques, a synagogue, bungalows, even the odd cattle shed. 0The scope of the book covers the period from the mid-1880s, when the two eponymous founding partners, Archibald A. Swan and J.W.B. Maclaren first came to Singapore, and continues through to the end of the British era in 1965.

Author : Mark Anthony Wilson
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 1423611810
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bernard Maybeck written by Mark Anthony Wilson and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of Bernard Maybeck has influenced generations of architects. His landmark buildings include the Palace of Fine Arts and First Church of Christ, Scientist. His emphasis on an open use of natural materials marks him as a pioneer in sustainable architecture, or “green design.” Maybeck's work achieves that delicate balance between historicism and modernism, and his buildings are still in use throughout several states on the West Coast and the Midwest. This book includes more than two dozen Maybeck buildings that have never been photographed in color in any other book, as well as several of his buildings that were never documented before. Architect of Elegance not only encompasses his most memorable works but also includes letters and drawings from the family archives never before seen by the general public. The foreward is written by Maybeck's granddaugther, Cherry Maybeck Nittler. Author Mark Wilson's 22-year friendship with Bernard Maybeck's daughter-in-law, Jacomena Maybeck, gave him unique insights into the life and work of one of America's most important architects.

Author : Methodist Episcopal Church. Missionary Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church written by Methodist Episcopal Church. Missionary Society and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: