Wallace Neff, 1895-1982
Author: Wallace Neff
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 156
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Author: Wallace Neff
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 156
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jeffrey Head
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2012-08-10
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 1616891556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImagine a house constructed in less than forty-eight hours, without using lumber or nails, that is more resistant to fire, earthquakes, and hurricanes than any traditionally built structure. This may sound like the latest development in prefab housing or green architecture, but the design dates back to 1941 when architect Wallace Neff (1895–1982) developed Airform construction as a solution to the global housing crisis. Best known for his elegant Spanish Colonial–revival estates in Southern California, Neff had a private passion for his dome-shaped "bubble houses" made of reinforced concrete cast in position over an inflatable balloon. No Nails, No Lumber shows the beauty and versatility of Neff's design in new and vintage photography, previously unpublished illustrations, and archival material and ephemera.
Author: Wallace Neff
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 141
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Publisher: Huntington Library Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 154
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Vincent B. Canizaro
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2012-03-20
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 1616890800
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this rapidly globalizing world, any investigation of architecture inevitably leads to considerations of regionalism. But despite its omnipresence in contemporary practice and theory, architectural regionalism remains a fluid concept, its historical development and current influence largely undocumented. This comprehensive reader brings together over 40 key essays illustrating the full range of ideas embodied by the term. Authored by important critics, historians, and architects such as Kenneth Frampton, Lewis Mumford, Sigfried Giedion, and Alan Colquhoun, Architectural Regionalism represents the history of regionalist thinking in architecture from the early twentieth century to today.
Author: Wallace Neff
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Published: 2017-03-03
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ISBN-13: 9781366279859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArchitecture of Famous Los Angeles architect Wallace Neff
Author: Diane Kanner
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 254
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis significant architect was raised as Southern California aristocracy, as an heir to one of the founders of Rand McNally & Company, and grew up to influence the course of architectural history in California. Illustrated with archival photographs that document Neff's family life and professional accomplishments, journalist Diane Kanner's narrativ
Author: Ann Scheid
Publisher: HPN Books
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 189361901X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Alexander McClung
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2002-05-31
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 0520234650
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"An imaginative and provocative interpretation of the meaning of Los Angeles, carefully thought out and beautifully written."—Robert Winter, editor of Toward a Simpler Way of Life: The Arts and Crafts Architects of California "McClung's sharp eye, and his ability to be both critic and analyst, combine to make this a book of real timeliness. It is unusual, and it is smart."—William Deverell, author of Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910
Author: Cheryl Caldwell Ferguson
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2014-08-27
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0292759371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the early twentieth century, developers from Baltimore to Beverly Hills built garden suburbs, a new kind of residential community that incorporated curvilinear roads and landscape design as picturesque elements in a neighborhood. Intended as models for how American cities should be rationally, responsibly, and beautifully modernized, garden suburban communities were fragments of a larger (if largely imagined) garden city—the mythical “good” city of U.S. city-planning practices of the 1920s. This extensively illustrated book chronicles the development of the two most fully realized garden suburbs in Texas, Dallas’s Highland Park and Houston’s River Oaks. Cheryl Caldwell Ferguson draws on a wealth of primary sources to trace the planning, design, financing, implementation, and long-term management of these suburbs. She analyzes homes built by such architects as H. B. Thomson, C. D. Hill, Fooshee & Cheek, John F. Staub, Birdsall P. Briscoe, and Charles W. Oliver. She also addresses the evolution of the shopping center by looking at Highland Park’s Shopping Village, which was one of the first in the nation. Ferguson sets the story of Highland Park and River Oaks within the larger story of the development of garden suburban communities in Texas and across America to explain why these two communities achieved such prestige, maintained their property values, became the most successful in their cities in the twentieth century, and still serve as ideal models for suburban communities today.