Architects and Builders in North Carolina
Author : Catherine W. Bishir
Publisher :
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 26,69 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
North Carolina Architecture
Author : Catherine W. Bishir
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 677 pages
File Size : 38,30 MB
Release : 2014-03-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1469620782
Book Description
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 the people who created them and who have used them, are central to the character of North Carolina. Now in a convenient new format, this portable edition of North Carolina Architecture retains all of the text of the original edition as well as hundreds of halftones by master photographer Tim Buchman. Catherine Bishir's narrative analyzes construction and design techniques and locates the structures in their cultural, political, and historical contexts. This extraordinary history of North Carolina's built world presents a unique and valuable portrait of the state.
Native Places
Author : Harmon
Publisher : Oro Editions
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 27,89 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781940743455
Book Description
Native Places is a collection of 64 watercolor sketches paired with mini-essays about architecture, landscape, everyday objects, and nature. The sketches relate the delight found in ordinary places. The short essays, rather than repeat what is visible in the sketch, illustrate ideas and thoughts sparked by that image and offer a fresh interpretation of ordinary things. The goal of Native Places is, in part, to transform the way we see. Through its pages, barns become guidebooks to crops and weather; a country church is redolent of the struggle for civil rights and human dignity; and a highway rest stop offers a glimpse of egalitarian society. Native Places also expresses the belief that writing and hand drawing are not obsolete skills. Both disciplines offer us the opportunity to develop a natural grace in the way we view the world and take part in it.
Designing Your Perfect House: Lessons from an Architect
Author : William J Hirsch, Jr
Publisher : Designing Your Perfect House
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 32,71 MB
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0979882001
Book Description
A #1 best seller for years, Bill Hirsch's Designing Your Perfect House: Lessons from an Architect has been called an essential read for Homeowners as well as Professionals. Bill's flowing style of writing makes you feel like you are sitting with him having a chat about your project. The philosophy behind design decisions is explained with stories, photos, sketches, and checklists. The book is divided into Twelve Lessons, with an additional Bonus Lesson ," Building Green, Naturally". You will learn how to evaluate your needs and work towards creating a suitable design, perfect for you and your family. The experience of home design and construction should be controllable, gratifying and enjoyable. With the valuable advice that Designing Your Perfect House: Lessons from an Architect provides, it can be.
Rural Modern
Author : Russell Abraham ASMP
Publisher : Images Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 32,84 MB
Release : 2013-07-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 186470487X
Book Description
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The Man-Made City
Author : Gerald D. Suttles
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 31,45 MB
Release : 1990-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226781938
Book Description
With its extraordinary uniform street grid, its magnificent lake-side park, and innovative architecture and public sculpture, Chicago is one of the most planned cities of the modern era. Yet over the past few decades Chicago has come to epitomize some of the worst evils of urban decay: widespread graft and corruption, political stalemates, troubled race relations, and economic decline. Broad-shouldered boosterism can no longer disguise the city's failure to keep pace with others, its failure to attract new "sunrise" industries and world-class events. For Chicago, as for other rust-belt cities, new ways of planning and managing the urban environment are now much more than civic beautification; they are the means to survival. Gerald D. Suttles here offers an irreverent, highly critical guide to both the realities and myths of land-use planning and development in Chicago from 1976 through 1987.
Architects and Builders in North Carolina
Author : Catherine W. Bishir
Publisher :
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 48,61 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Book Description
African American Architects
Author : Dreck Spurlock Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 855 pages
File Size : 14,98 MB
Release : 2004-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1135956294
Book Description
Since 1865 African-American architects have been designing and building houses and public buildings, but the architects are virtually unknown. This work brings their lives and work to light for the first time.
Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America
Author : James D. Kornwolf
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 43,85 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780801859861
Book Description
Incorporating more than 3,000 illustrations, Kornwolf's work conveys the full range of the colonial encounter with the continent's geography, from the high forms of architecture through formal landscape design and town planning. From these pages emerge the fine arts of environmental design, an understanding of the political and economic events that helped to determine settlement in North America, an appreciation of the various architectural and landscape forms that the settlers created, and an awareness of the diversity of the continent's geography and its peoples. Considering the humblest buildings along with the mansions of the wealthy and powerful, public buildings, forts, and churches, Kornwolf captures the true dynamism and diversity of colonial communities - their rivalries and frictions, their outlooks and attitudes - as they extended their hold on the land.
The Model Architect
Author : Samuel Sloan
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 37,97 MB
Release : 1865
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN :
