French Period Houses and Their Details

French Period Houses and Their Details

Author: Ronald Lambell

Publisher: Architectual Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13:

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A series of measured drawings, accompanied by photographs and a short explanatory text, from French house interiors, this book aims at highlighting the details associated with the styles which developed between the mid-17th and early-19th centuries.


Splendor of France

Splendor of France

Author: Laure Murat

Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780847826278

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Covering more than forty properties scattered throughout France, a lavish volume captures their diverse architecture; rich interiors; priceless furniture, paintings, and sculpture collections; and fabulous gardens in all their glory.


My Omaha Obsession

My Omaha Obsession

Author: Miss Cassette

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2020-11

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 149622471X

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My Omaha Obsession takes the reader on an idiosyncratic tour through some of Omaha’s neighborhoods, buildings, architecture, and people, celebrating the city’s unusual history. Rather than covering the city’s best-known sites, Miss Cassette is irresistibly drawn to strange little buildings and glorious large homes that don’t exist anymore as well as to stories of Harkert’s Holsum Hamburgers and the Twenties Club. Piecing together the records of buildings and homes and everything interesting that came after, Miss Cassette shares her observations of the property and its significance to Omaha. She scrutinizes land deeds, insurance maps, tax records, and old newspaper articles to uncover a property’s singular story. Through conversations with fellow detectives and history enthusiasts, she guides readers along her path of hunches, personal interests, mishaps, and more. As a longtime resident of Omaha, Miss Cassette is informed by memories of her youth combined with an enduring curiosity about the city’s offbeat relics and remains. Part memoir and part research guide with a healthy dose of colorful wandering, My Omaha Obsession celebrates the historic built environment and searches for the people who shaped early Omaha.


A Field Guide to American Houses

A Field Guide to American Houses

Author: Virginia Savage McAlester

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2015-07-29

Total Pages: 881

ISBN-13: 0385353871

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The fully expanded, updated, and freshly designed second edition of the most comprehensive and widely acclaimed guide to domestic architecture: in print since its original publication in 1984, and acknowledged everywhere as the unmatched, essential guide to American houses. This revised edition includes a section on neighborhoods; expanded and completely new categories of house styles with photos and descriptions of each; an appendix on "Approaches to Construction in the 20th and 21st Centuries"; an expanded bibliography; and 600 new photographs and line drawings.


Plantation Houses and Mansions of the Old South

Plantation Houses and Mansions of the Old South

Author: J. Frazer Smith

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-09-06

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0486142221

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DIVRich survey ranges from pioneer cabins to French Provincial and Neoclassic revivals. Extensive commentary on each building, with over 100 detailed illustrations, including 36 floor plans. Bibliography. /div


Building the Devil's Empire

Building the Devil's Empire

Author: Shannon Lee Dawdy

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2008-09-15

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0226138437

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Building the Devil’s Empire is the first comprehensive history of New Orleans’s early years, tracing the town’s development from its origins in 1718 to its revolt against Spanish rule in 1768. Shannon Lee Dawdy’s picaresque account of New Orleans’s wild youth features a cast of strong-willed captives, thin-skinned nobles, sharp-tongued women, and carousing travelers. But she also widens her lens to reveal the port city’s global significance, examining its role in the French Empire and the Caribbean, and she concludes that by exemplifying a kind of rogue colonialism—where governments, outlaws, and capitalism become entwined—New Orleans should prompt us to reconsider our notions of how colonialism works. "[A] penetrating study of the colony's founding."—Nation “A brilliant and spirited reinterpretation of the emergence of French New Orleans. Dawdy leads us deep into the daily life of the city, and along the many paths that connected it to France, the North American interior, and the Greater Caribbean. A major contribution to our understanding of the history of the Americas and of the French Atlantic, the work is also a model of interdisciplinary research and analysis, skillfully bringing together archival research, archaeology, and literary analysis.”—Laurent Dubois, Duke University


Building in France, Building in Iron, Building in Ferroconcrete

Building in France, Building in Iron, Building in Ferroconcrete

Author: Sigfried Giedion

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 1995-09-01

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0892363193

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With Building in France, Building in Iron, Building in Ferroconcretre (1928)—published now for the first time in English—Sigfried Giedion positioned himself as an eloquent advocate of modern architecture. This was the first book to exalt Le Corbusier as the artistic champion of the new movement. It also spelled out many of the tenets of Modernism that are now regarded as myths, among them the impoverishment of nineteenth-century architectural thinking and practice, the contrasting vigor of engineering innovations, and the notion of Modernism as technologically preordained.