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Author : Borislav Pekić
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,61 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780810111417
The Bernard Johnson translation of Pekic's prize-winning novel. Originally published by Harcourt in 1978. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Daniel D. Reiff
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,67 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780271044194
Many homes across America have designs based on plans taken from pattern books or mail-order catalogs. In Houses from Books, Daniel D. Reiff traces the history of published plans and offers the first comprehensive survey of their influence on the structure and the style of American houses from 1738 to 1950. Houses from Books shows that architectural publications, from Palladio&’s I Quattro Libri to Aladdin's Readi-Cut Homes, played a decisive role in every aspect of American domestic building. Reiff discusses the people and the firms who produced the books as well as the ways in which builders and architects adapted the designs in communities throughout the country. His book also offers a wide-ranging analysis of the economic and social conditions shaping American building practices. As architectural publication developed and grew more sophisticated, it played an increasingly prominent part in the design and the construction of domestic buildings. In villages and small towns, which often did not have professional architects, the publications became basic resources for carpenters and builders at all levels of expertise. Through the use of published designs, they were able to choose among a variety of plans, styles, and individual motifs and engage in a fruitful dialogue with past and present architects. Houses from Books reconstructs this dialogue by examining the links between the published designs and the houses themselves. Reiff&’s book will be indispensable to architectural historians, architects, preservationists, and regional historians. Realtors and homeowners will also find it of great interest. A catalog at the end of the book can function as a guide for those attempting to locate a model and a date for a particular design. Houses from Books contains a wealth of photographs, many by the author, that enhance its importance as a history and guide.
Author : Henry Wiencek
Publisher : Stewart, Tabori, & Chang
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,8 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
From an unrestored masterpiece such as the Aiken-Rhett House in Charleston, South Carolina, to a farmhouse in upstate New York, inhabited only by a bird nesting in the bathroom sink, Old Houses profiles 20 houses whose peeling paint, faded fabrics, and antique furniture impart a surprising elegance and beauty. An unusual volume, this book will appeal to historians, restoration specialists, and style-conscious homeowners lookingfor new ideas form examples of the past. Over 250 full-color photographs.
Author : Barbara J. Howe
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,27 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780761989295
This volume in the Nearby History series helps the reader document the history of a home. The reader will learn to examine written records, oral testimonies, visual sources, and the house's surroundings. The author covers American housing patterns, the individual characteristics of houses in different regions, construction techniques and materials, household technology, and family life styles. Houses and Homes is Volume 2 in The Nearby History Series.
Author : Ken Pursley
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 37,83 MB
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 0847870820
In their first book, acclaimed architects Ken Pursley and Craig Dixon explore how to create gracious homes with welcoming entryways, soulful interiors, inviting porches, and ebullient gardens. Founded on the simple principle “Build beautiful things,” the architectural team of Pursley Dixon, like populist architects Bobby McAlpine and Jeff Dungan, is known for blending elements of tradition with a modern lifestyle. In Finding Home, they share 15 stunning houses in three distinct styles: rustic mountain escapes, dreamy retreats by the water, and elegant houses in town. Each house has its own thoughtful visual narrative, but all are connected on an innate and authentic level by their sense of proportion, attention to detail, and a marvelous affinity with nature, displayed in their soothing neutral palettes, oversize windows that bring the outdoors in, and natural materials such as rough-hewn stone and unfinished wood. Little touches of humanity await discovery, such as a sleeping nook perched right out into the highest branches of a tree. These eccentricities and secrets add to the distinctly Southern sense of warmth and refuge these homes provide, homes whose open interiors and majestic porches easily accommodate family and gatherings. Featuring their own interior design work as well as that of acclaimed decorators such as Suzanne Kasler, Phoebe Howard, and Circa Interiors, Finding Home is about creating houses of inherent beauty that will spark an emotional connection to last a lifetime.
Author : Lester Walker
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,59 MB
Release : 1993-09-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780879515102
Profiles seventeen small buildings, some used as permanent housing, some as temporary accommodations, and some as workplaces, including Thoreau's cabin and an ice fishing shanty, and provides structural diagrams and plans.
Author : Frank Shirley
Publisher : Taunton Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 23,72 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1561588857
Provides advice for adding additions to older homes, considering balance, transition, public versus private space, and materials; and including photographs, floor plans, and illustrations.
Author : Christina Hardyment
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,94 MB
Release : 2020
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 9781851244805
Novel Houses' visits unforgettable dwellings in twenty legendary works of English and American fiction. Each chapter stars a famous novel in which a dwelling is pivotal to the plot, and reveals how personally significant that place was to the writer who created it.0We discover Uncle Tom's Cabin's powerful influence on the American Civil War, how essential 221B Baker Street was to Sherlock Holmes and the importance of Bag End to the adventuring hobbits who called it home. It looks at why Bleak House is used as the name of a happy home and what was on Jane Austen's mind when she worked out the plot of Mansfield Park. Little-known background on the dwellings at the heart of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast and Stella Gibbon's Cold Comfort Farm emerges, and the real life settings of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and E.M. Forster's Howards End, so fundamental to their stories, are shown to relate closely to their authors' passions and preoccupations. 0A winning combination of literary criticism, geography and biography, this is an entertaining and insightful celebration of beloved novels and the extraordinary role that houses grand and small, imagined and real, or unique and ordinary, play in their continuing popularity.
Author : Philip Jodidio
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,60 MB
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 0789345102
Changing lifestyles and economic condictions as well as ecological concerns have fueled a move to smaller, more efficient living spaces. This book includes the most cutting-edge, effective, and appealing breakthroughs in home design and architecture within the past five years. A stunning collection of 50 outstanding works of small contemporary home design and architecture from around the world. Small Innovative Houses is the perfect source of inspiration for homeowners and architects alike.
Author : Charles A. Fracchia
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 33,19 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
"The author presents a versatile selection of more than thirty intriguing examples of conversion, in the United States, England, and France. In more than two hundred color photographs, the structures are show as they are today, inside and out, and each is accompanied by notes relating its history and the steps which led to its change"--Cover.