A History of the Architecture of Madison During the Civil War Period
Author: Helen Mary McCarthy
Publisher:
Published: 1922
Total Pages: 110
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The Visual Dictionary of American Domestic Architecture
Author: Rachel Carley
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1997-03-15
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780805045635
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVisual presentation of the many types of houses built in America from the earliest Indian dwellings to designs for futuristic homes.
Domestic Architecture and Power
Author: Ross W. Jamieson
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2005-12-08
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0306471728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorical archaeology, one of the fastest growing of archaeology’s sub fields in North America, has developed more slowly in Central and p- ticularly South America. Happily, this circumstance is ending as a gr- ing number of recent projects are successfully integrating textual and material culture data in studies of the events and processes of the last 500 years. This interval and this region–often called Ibero-America–have been studied for a century or more by historians with traditional perspectives and emphases focusing on colonial elites and large-scale politico-economic events. Such inclinations fit well into world-system and other core-peri- ery models that have had a major impact on historical thought since the 1970s. Over the past 20 years or so, however, world-system models have come under fire from historians, anthropologists, and others, in part because the emphasis on global trends and the growth of capitalism - nies the importance of understanding variability in local histories and circumstances. Historians have increasingly turned their attention to lo cal, rural, and domestic contexts, thereby illuminating the great diversity of responses to colonial domination that were played out in the vast arena of the Americas. It is not coincidental that this is the intellectual climate in which historical archaeology is establishing itself in Central and South America.
Reading Architectural History
Author: Dana Arnold
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1134532318
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArchitectural history is more than just the study of buildings. Architecture of the past and present remains an essential emblem of a distinctive social system and set of cultural values and as a result it has been the subject of study of a variety of disciplines. But what is architectural history and how should we read it? Reading Architectural History examines the historiographic and socio/cultural implications of the mapping of British architectural history with particular reference to eighteenth - and nineteenth-century Britain. Discursive essays consider a range of writings from biographical and social histories to visual surveys and guidebooks to examine the narrative structures of histories of architecture and their impact on perception adn understanding of the architecture of the past. Alongside this, each chapter cites canonical histories juxtaposed with a range of social and cultural theorists, to reveal that these writings are richer than we have perhaps recognised and that architectural production in this period can in interrogated in the same way as that from more recent past - and can be read in a variety of ways. The essays and texts combine to form an essential course reader for methods and critical approached to architectural history, and more generally as examples of the kind of evidence used in the formation of architectural histories, while also offering a thematic introduction to architecture in Britain and its social and cultural meaning.
A History of Western Architecture
Author: David Watkin
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 722
ISBN-13: 9781856694599
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of Western architecture from the earliest times in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the dramatic impact of CAD on architectural practice at the beginning of the 21st century.
American Architectural History
Author: Keith Eggener
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780415306959
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a collection of recent writings on architecture and urbanism in the United States, with topics ranging from colonial to contemporary times.
Continuity and Change in Etruscan Domestic Architecture
Author: Paul M. Miller
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2017-04-30
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1784915815
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEtruscan architecture underwent various changes between the later Iron Age and the Archaic period. This book reconsiders these changes by focusing on the building materials and techniques used in the construction of domestic structures.
Domestic Settings
Author: Adrian Boas
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010-03-02
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 900418273X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhereas a great deal of research has been carried out on Crusader castles, churches and major buildings in the Latin East, almost no attention has been paid to domestic architecture and the domestic settings in which most of the population of the Crusader states spent most of their time. The present work attempts to address this deficiency by taking an in-depth look at the various domestic buildings that served the urban and rural population and the domestic apartments in castles and mosasteries. The basis for this survey is the wealth of published and unpublished archaeological data that has been uncovered over the past century and the various documentary materials available, much of which has been overlooked in the past.
A History of American Architecture
Author: Mark Gelernter
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780719047275
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy did the colonial Americans give over a significant part of their homes to a grand staircase? Why did the Victorians drape their buildings ornate decoration? And why did American buildings grow so tall in the last decades of the 19th century. This book explores the history of American architecture from prehistoric times to the present, explaining why characteristic architectural forms arose at particular times and in particular places.
Wisconsin's Historic Houses and Living History Museums
Author: Krista Finstad Hanson
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781879483613
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author presents 134 of Wisconsin's noted historical houses, offering color photos, histories and descriptions, and practical travel information for each. All of these houses are open to the public. Learning about and touring these houses is like living the history of Wisconsin. Most were homes of substance, built by barons of industry, while others are more modest homes of figures who later became famous personages. Some are very large, and some are very small, such as Frank Lloyd Wright's 880-square-foot Seth Peterson Cottage, on Mirror Lake. All will be of interest to those who travel Wisconsin's roads in search of adventure and delight.
