Sloan's Homestead Architecture
Sloan's Homestead Architecture

Author: Samuel Sloan

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-05-20

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9781357583163

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Samuel Sloan
Samuel Sloan

Author: Harold N. Cooledge, Jr.

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2016-11-11

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1512801283

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Samuel Sloan: Architect of Philadelphia, 1815-1884 is a comprehensive study of one of America's most influential architects. Sloan created the designs that have become prototypes for many public buildings. His plan for the Hospital of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Philadelphia served as the model for American general hospitals, and, with Dr. Thomas S. Kirkbride, he created the model for mental hospitals in the United States. Sloan was also an innovative designer of public schools, creating the "Philadelphia Plan" of schoolhouse design, which came to be internationally known and widely used. Sloan helped to shape the architecture of his time not only through the buildings he designed but also through his writings. He published several major pattern books, covering every aspect of the architectural profession from carpentry to furnishings. One of these, The Model Architect, went through five editions and was among the most widely distributed works of its kind in the history of nineteenth-century architectural publishing. As a result, Sloan's influence on the architectural environment of nineteenth-century America is so pervasive that a full accounting of the works which can be traced back to his books is almost impossible. From 1868 until 1871 Sloan also produced The Architectural Review, the first periodical in the United States devoted exclusively to architecture and its related arts and crafts and the unofficial organ of the reconstituted American Institute of Architects. In Samuel Sloan, Harold N. Cooledge, Jr. examines the social, economic, and environmental factors that influenced Sloan's personal and professional character and includes a consideration of the theorists and tastemakers whose ideas influenced Sloan's attitude toward architectural theory and practice. Cooledge then presents a chronological biography in which the majority of Sloan's important commissions are considered in detail, and as much information about his private life as could be documented is given. The book concludes with a detailed catalogue of Sloan's work. Samuel Sloan: Architect of Philadelphia 1815-1884 will be of value to architects and to scholars interested in art history, social history, and American studies.

Sloan's Homestead Architecture
Sloan's Homestead Architecture

Author: Samuel Sloan

Publisher:

Published: 2016-06-25

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9781332927241

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Excerpt from Sloan's Homestead Architecture: Containing Forty Designs for Villas, Cottages, and Farm Houses, With Essays on Style, Construction, Landscape Gardening, Furniture, Etc;, Etc But little preface is deemed necessary to the publication of this series of Designs. All will admit that popular works on Architecture are a desideratum of the day and nation, which the industry and ability of Architects must be heavily taxed to supply. Society needs to be awakened, and, where the light has already dawned, to be encouraged and assisted in the de velopment of the highest charms belonging to that spot of which so much has been said and sung - home. N o in uence is more potent in producing changes in the work ings of the great machinery of society than that of the press. The reforms wrought by its agency are heralded too constantly and praised too loudly.for the fact to be overlooked or forgotten a moment by those who wish to wield their in uence in the great cause of advancement; and the present rapid development and general application of the art of wood engraving opens a field for the interchange of ideas by linear illustrations totally nu heard of in former times. With these in uences at work, guided by intelligent minds, among an industrious and energetic people the future of American Architecture promises to take as high rank in the Art world as is allotted to the productions of any age or country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."