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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Pub
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Includes information on Charles Bulfinch, classicism, Charles Louis Clerisseau, Elenora Coolidge, Maria Hadfield Cosway, Derby Mansion, Federal Hall (New York), Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Monticello, Andrea Palladio, Charles Willson Peale, Anna Maria Brodeau Thornton, U.S. Capitol, Virginia State Capitol, University of Virginia, George Washington, etc.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the nation recovered from a cataclysmic war, two titans of design profoundly influenced how Americans came to interact with the built and natural world around them through their pioneering work in architecture and landscape design. Frederick Law Olmsted is widely revered as America's first and finest parkmaker and environmentalist. His close friend and sometime collaborator, Henry Hobson Richardson, has been almost entirely forgotten today, despite...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
x, 333 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In architectural terms, the twentieth century can be largely summed up with two names: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson. Wright (1867-1959) began it with his romantic prairie style; Johnson (1906-2005) brought down the curtain with his spare postmodernist experiments. Between them, they built some of the most admired and discussed buildings in American history. Differing radically in their views on architecture, Wright and Johnson shared a restless...
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