Author : Albert Simons
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,17 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780872497085
Highlights the architectural heritage paying tribute to the skill of America's early architects.
Author : Jonathan H. Poston
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 49,61 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781570032028
From the Battery to Wragg mall, a comprehensive guide to the architectural treasures of one of America's best preserved cities.
Author : Gene Waddell
Publisher : Gibbs M. Smith, Incorporated
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,78 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
This book is about how a consistently high standard of excellence was achieved in Charleston architecture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Regardless of what style Charleston's architects used—Greek or Roman, Gothic or Renaissance, Adamesque or Greek Revival—they were in agreement about what constituted excellence. Special emphasis is placed on the knowledge that was required to create Charleston's early architecture. An introduction discusses the writings and buildings of Andrea Palladio, Robert Adam, A. Welby Pugin, and other influential architects. Sources of inspiration for Charleston buildings have included specific buildings in Greece, Italy, England, France and Germany. Whenever possible, primary sources of information were used to determine how various types of Charleston buildings were designed and constructed. A dozen of the city's best-documented buildings are considered in detail as a basis for comparison:
Author : Witold Rybczynski
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,49 MB
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300256963
A captivating chronicle of building in modern-day Charleston, making a case for architecture based on historical precedent, local context, and the ability to delight Charleston, South Carolina, which boasts America's first historic district, is known for its palmetto-lined streets and picturesque houses. The Holy City, named for its profusion of churches, exudes an irresistible charm. Award-winning author and cultural critic Witold Rybczynski unfolds a series of stories about a group of youthful architects, builders, and developers based in Charleston: a self-taught home builder, an Air Force pilot, a fledgling architect, and a bluegrass mandolin player. Beginning in the 1980s, this cast of characters, exercising a kind of amateur mastery, produced an eclectic array of buildings inspired by the past--including a domed Byzantine drawing room, a fanciful medieval castle, a restored freedman's cottage, a miniature Palladian villa, and a contemporary Mediterranean street. In his careful profiles of these protagonists and the challenges they have overcome in realizing their dreams, Rybczynski compellingly emphasizes the importance of architecture and urban design on a local level, how an old city can remake itself by invention as well as replication, and the role that individuals still play in transforming the urban landscapes around them.
Author : Mary Preston Foster
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 10,15 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738517797
A guide book will help natives and visitors alike appreciate the history and residents of the beautiful city of Charleston, South Carolina, one of the South's great cultural destinations, which has endured periods of grandeur, occupation, a devastating earthquake, fires, hurricanes, and the challenges of Reconstruction. Original.
Author : Margaret H. Moore
Publisher : TM Photography Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,42 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780966014402
Author : David R. AvRutick
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 32,81 MB
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1493037544
Charleston is one of the most historically significant cities in the United States. One of the prime attractions of Charleston is the spectacular array of historic buildings spanning a wide variety of architectural styles. From simple pre-Revolutionary–era dwellings to spectacular Italianate, Greek Revival, and Victorian homes, to colonial government buildings, to some of the oldest and most beautiful churches, Charleston’s architectural splendor is unparalleled in the United States.
Author : Lissa Felzer
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,90 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781596292864
Charleston's "freedman's cottages" are some of the most understudied and undervalued vernacular buildings in the city, found as far south as Council Street and as far north as North Charleston. Though these cottages have long been associated with African American history and culture, they in fact extend much further into the history and development of Charleston and deserve to be studied and understood. The predominant theory is that these tiny houses, often no larger than five hundred square feet, were constructed by and for freed slaves after the Civil War, due to a rising need for inexpensive housing. Who occupied these houses over time? What were their lives like? Most of them were ordinary citizens to whom we can all relate. Each one of these houses has at least a hundred stories to tell, many of which have been uncovered and recounted here. Join local preservationist Lissa D'Aquisto Felzer as she elevates the freedman's cottages to their rightful place in the history of Charleston architecture.
Author : Leigh Jones Handal
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 29,57 MB
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1911595938
From the dawn of the photographic era, Lost Charleston chronicles the markets, mansions, hotels, restaurants, church towers and cherished businesses that time, progress, and fashion have swept aside. The miracle of Charleston is that despite the very worst that man and nature has thrown at it--from earthquakes to hurricanes, great fires to Civil War bombardment--so much of the city has been preserved. Lost Charleston shows what else could have been on display for tourists to visit had events been otherwise. Using classic archive images, Charleston's greatest architectural and cultural losses are documented in chronological order from 1861 through to 2018. Apart from the grand buildings there are also elements of Charleston life precious to Charlestonians that have disappeared over time, many of which will still resonate with the local community. These include beloved local restaurants, annual festivals, the fishing fleet that DuBose Heyward wrote about in his novel Porgy, a famed local football team, trolley cars, and the Piggly Wiggly store. Plus there's the Jenkins Orphanage Band whose dance moves gave the city its most famous export: The Charleston!
Author : Historic American Buildings Survey
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,96 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
