Sources of Greek Revival Architecture
Author : Dora Wiebenson
Publisher :
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 12,98 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author : Dora Wiebenson
Publisher :
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 12,98 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author : Dora Wiebenson
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,93 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author : Dora Wiebenson
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 30,79 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author : Stuart
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 23,23 MB
Release : 1762
Category :
ISBN :
Author : George Everard Kidder Smith
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 35,57 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781568980249
Scorched Earth is the first book to chronicle the effects of chemical warfare on the Vietnamese people and their environment, where, even today, more than 3 million people—including 500,000 children—are sick and dying from birth defects, cancer, and other illnesses that can be directly traced to Agent Orange/dioxin exposure. Weaving first-person accounts with original research, Vietnam War scholar Fred A. Wilcox examines long-term consequences for future generations, laying bare the ongoing monumental tragedy in Vietnam, and calls for the United States government to finally admit its role in chemical warfare in Vietnam. Wilcox also warns readers that unless we stop poisoning our air, food, and water supplies, the cancer epidemic in the United States and other countries will only worsen, and he urgently demands the chemical manufacturers of Agent Orange to compensate the victims of their greed and to stop using the Earth’s rivers, lakes, and oceans as toxic waste dumps. Vietnam has chosen August 10—the day that the US began spraying Agent Orange on Vietnam—as Agent Orange Day, to commemorate all its citizens who were affected by the deadly chemical. Scorched Earth will be released upon the third anniversary of this day, in honor of all those whose families have suffered, and continue to suffer, from this tragedy.
Author : G.E. Kidder Smith
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 14,69 MB
Release : 2000-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781568982540
This comprehensive and insightful illustrated survey of 500 of America's most distinguished buildings provides a unique overview of the thousand-year architectural development of the United States. It examines our nation's architecture from its earliest days to the present, ranging from cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde to Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House in Chicago to James Ingo Freed's Holocaust Museum in Washington. Indispensable in any library, it also serves as a general introduction to American architecture or as a splendid guide for tourists.
Author : Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 23,42 MB
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0823281043
During the rise of New York from the capital of an upstart nation to a global metropolis, the visual language of Greek and Roman antiquity played a formative role in the development of the city’s art and architecture. This compilation of essays offers a survey of diverse reinterpretations of classical forms in some of New York’s most iconic buildings, public monuments, and civic spaces. Classical New York examines the influence of Greco-Roman thought and design from the Greek Revival of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries through the late-nineteenth-century American Renaissance and Beaux Arts period and into the twentieth century’s Art Deco. At every juncture, New Yorkers looked to the classical past for knowledge and inspiration in seeking out new ways to cultivate a civic identity, to design their buildings and monuments, and to structure their public and private spaces. Specialists from a range of disciplines—archaeology, architectural history, art history, classics, and history— focus on how classical art and architecture are repurposed to help shape many of New York City’s most evocative buildings and works of art. Federal Hall evoked the Parthenon as an architectural and democratic model; the Pantheon served as a model for the creation of Libraries at New York University and Columbia University; Pennsylvania Station derived its form from the Baths of Caracalla; and Atlas and Prometheus of Rockefeller Center recast ancient myths in a new light during the Great Depression. Designed to add breadth and depth to the exchange of ideas about the place and meaning of ancient Greece and Rome in our experience of New York City today, this examination of post-Revolutionary art, politics, and philosophy enriches the conversation about how we shape space—be it civic, religious, academic, theatrical, or domestic—and how we make use of that space and the objects in it.
Author : Susan Weber Soros
Publisher :
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 18,4 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300117134
The creation of the “Greek style” and its pervasive impact in England and on the Continent during the third quarter of the eighteenth century was largely due to James Stuart’s landmark multi-volume publication Antiquities of Athens, coauthored with Nicholas Revett. Stuart, subsequently known as “Athenian” Stuart, went on to a highly influential career that spanned the fields of architecture, interior decoration, furnishings, sculpture, and metalwork. This lavishly illustrated book is the first to examine Stuart’s multi-dimensional career and the full scope of his contributions as designer, artist, and tastemaker. An international team of scholars consider each area of Stuart’s work, his early training, interest in archaeology, unique network of patrons, poor record for completing projects, and legacy. With illustrations and discussion of the stunning neo-classical furnishings he created at Spencer House, the Greek Doric Temple at Hagley, and numerous other remarkable projects, the book brings Stuart’s achievements to light more clearly than ever before.
Author : Heinrich Hubsch
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 23,9 MB
Release : 1996-07-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0892361999
Hubsch's argument that the technical progress and changed living habits of the nineteenth century rendered neoclassical principles antiquated is presented here along with responses to his essay by architects, historians, and critics over two decades.
Author : Luciana Gallo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 15,87 MB
Release : 2009-06-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0521881633
This book analyses the collection of archaeological drawings drawn in Greece by a team of artists and architects in the service of Lord Elgin.