The Mayan Revival Style
Author: Marjorie I. Ingle
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13:
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Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture
Author: Stephen D. Houston
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 588
ISBN-13: 9780884022541
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese articles mark a significant stage in the study of Maya architecture and the society that built it. They represent advances in our understandings of the past, point toward avenues for further studies, and note the distance yet to travel in fully appreciating and understanding this ancient American culture and its material remains.
The Mayan Revival Style
Author: Marjorie I. Ingle
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 126
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrank Lloyd Wright on the West Coast
Author: Mark Wilson
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Published: 2014-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1423634470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrank Lloyd Wright’s buildings on the West Coast have not been thoroughly covered in print until now. Between 1909 and 1959, Wright designed a total of 38 structures up and down the West Coast, from Seattle to Southern California. These include well-known structures such as the Marin County Civic Center and Hollyhock House in Los Angeles, and many lesser-known gems such as the 1909 Stewart House near Santa Barbara. With more than 200 photographs by veteran architectural photographer Joel Puliatti and 50 archival images (many of which have never been seen in print before), this comprehensive survey of Wright’s West Coast legacy features background information on the clients’ relationships with Wright, including insights gleaned from correspondence with the original owners and interviews with many of the current owners.
Robert Stacy-Judd
Author: David Gebhard
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArchitect Stacy-Judd created a sensation in the 1920s and 1930s when be brought Mayan and Aztec motifs into the architecture of southern California. His life and work are examined here, with numerous examples of his color renderings and photos of many of his buildings. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Maya of Modernism
Author: Jesse Lerner
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the time when archaeologists first began to discover the civilization's spectacular ruins, Mexico's Mayan past has been a boundless source of inspiration, ideas, and iconography for the modernist imagination. This study examines the ways artists, architects, filmmakers, photographers, and other producers of visual culture in Mexico, the United States, Europe, and beyond have mined Mayan history and imagery. Beginning his study in the mid-nineteenth century, with the first mechanically reproduced and mass distributed images of the Mayan ruins, and ending with recent works that address this history of representation, Lerner argues that Maya modernism is the product of an ongoing pan-American modernism characterized by a continuing series of reinterpretations, collaborations, and exchanges in which Yucatecans, Mexicans and foreigners, mestizos, Mayas, and others all participate and are free to endorse, misunderstand, reinterpret, or reject each other's ideas.
Art Deco San Francisco
Author: Therese Poletti
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2008-09-03
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781568987569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Castro Theatre, the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Headquarters, 450 Sutter Medico-Dental Buildingthesemasterpieces of San Francisco's Art Deco heritage are the work of one man: Timothy Pflueger. An immigrant's sonwith only a grade-school education, Pflueger began practicing architecture after San Francisco's 1906 earthquake. While his contemporaries looked to Beaux-Arts traditions to rebuild the city, he brought exotic Mayan, Asian, and Egyptian forms to buildings ranging from simple cocktail lounges to the city's first skyscrapers. Pflueger was one of the city's most prolificarchitects during his 40-year career. He designed two major downtown skyscrapers, two stock exchanges, several neighborhood theaters, movie palaces for four smaller cities (including the beloved Paramount in Oakland), some ofthe city's biggest schools, and at least 50 homes. His works include the San Francisco Stock Exchange, the ever-popularTop of the Mark, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, and the San Francisco World's Fair. It is a testament to his talentthat many of his buildings still stand and many have been named landmarks. Therese Poletti tells the fascinating story of Pflueger's life and work in Art Deco San Francisco. In lively detail, she relates how Pflueger built extravagant compositions in metal, concrete, and glass. She also tells the story behind the architecture: Pflueger's commissioning and support of muralist Diego Rivera, his association with photographer Ansel Adams and sculptor Ralph Stackpole, and his childhood friendship turned to adulthood sponsorship with San Francisco Mayor James "Sunny" Rolph Jr. Beautiful archival photography mixes with stunning new photography in this collection of a truly Californian, but ultimately American, story.
Cines de Cuba. Photographs by Carolina Sandretto. Ediz. Illustrata
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Publisher: Skira
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9788857234397
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1953, Cuba had 694 cinemas and theaters. Havana alone had 134, more than New York or Paris. In 2014, documentary photographer Carolina Sandretto set out to find and photograph, with a 1950s_ medium-format camera, the remaining cinemas from that golden era. This book is the visual document of her journey. _The book is a voyage around the Island during which I documented what are the cinemas now and how do they look like outside and inside. These buildings, that where once the gathering of the people, have fallen into the oblivion of their own society_. Carolina Sandretto
The Maya
Author: Megan E. O’Neil
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2022-07-06
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1789145511
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn illuminating look at the myriad communities who have engaged with the ancient Maya over the centuries. This book reveals how the ancient Maya—and their buildings, ideas, objects, and identities—have been perceived, portrayed, and exploited over five hundred years in the Americas, Europe, and beyond. Engaging in interdisciplinary analysis, the book summarizes ancient Maya art and history from the preclassical period to the Spanish invasion, as well as the history of outside engagement with the ancient Maya, from Spanish invaders in the sixteenth century to later explorers and archaeologists, taking in scientific literature, visual arts, architecture, world’s fairs, and Indigenous activism. It also looks at the decipherment of Maya inscriptions, Maya museum exhibitions and artists’ responses, and contemporary Maya people’s engagements with their ancestral past. Featuring the latest research, this book will interest scholars as well as general readers who wish to know more about this ancient, fascinating culture.
A Visual Dictionary of Architecture
Author: Francis D. K. Ching
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2011-09-06
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 0470648856
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe classic, bestselling reference on architecture now revised and expanded! An essential one-volume reference of architectural topics using Francis D.K. Ching's signature presentation. It is the only dictionary that provides concise, accurate definitions illustrated with finely detailed, hand-rendered drawings. From Arch to Wood, every concept, technology, material and detail important to architects and designers are presented in Ching's unique style. Combining text and drawing, each term is given a minimum double-page spread on large format trim size, so that the term can be comprehensively explored, graphically showing relations between concepts and sub-terms A comprehensive index permits the reader to locate any important word in the text. This long-awaited revision brings the latest concepts and technology of 21st century architecture, design and construction to this classic reference work It is sure to be by the side of and used by any serious architect or designer, students of architecture, interior designers, and those in construction.
