[PDF] Aia Detroit eBook

Author : Eric J. Hill
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 18,20 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780814331200

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A beautifully designed resource that takes readers on a tour of greater Detroit's many architectural wonders and special landmarks.

Author : Robert Sharoff
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 38,40 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0814332706

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"In the 1910s and 1920s there was more steel going up in Detroit than anywhere outside of New York and Chicago. The result was the country's first high-tech metropolis, a city of lavish monuments and glittering skyscrapers." "The list of major architects who designed buildings for Detroit includes Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Stanford White, Daniel Burnham, Cass Gilbert, Albert Kahn, Minoru Yamasaki, Philip Johnson, and numerous others." "Detroit's public buildings - its museums, libraries, schools, and monuments - are second to none in terms of their overall scale, materials, and detailing. Hotels, stores, theaters, and other commercial venues display a breezy cosmopolitanism consistent with the city's position as both a technology hub and a crossroads of immigration." "Overwhelmed by the sheer beauty of the buildings they encountered on a 2003 visit to downtown Detroit, writer Robert Sharoff and photographer William Zbaren were inspired to create American City: Detroit Architecture, 1845-2005, the first new large-format book on the city's architecture in more than thirty years." "The fact that many structures are either endangered or marginally in use makes the book all the more compelling. In 2005, the National Trust for Historic Preservation placed "the historic buildings of downtown Detroit" on the list of the country's most endangered landmarks." "The book also includes examples of interesting new architecture as well as numerous historic buildings from the 1920s and earlier that have been maintained or in some cases painstakingly restored."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : John Gallagher
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 32,18 MB
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0814338577

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Readers interested in urban studies and recent Detroit history will appreciate this thoughtful assessment of the best practices and obvious errors when it comes to reinventing our cities.

Author : John Gallagher
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 24,20 MB
Release : 2010
Category : City planning
ISBN : 9780814334690

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Suggests ways for Detroit to become a smaller but better city in the twenty first century and proposes productive uses for the city's vacant spaces.

Author : Stephen Vogel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 30,96 MB
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1000764605

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This book provides a compelling and insightful portrait of ten female architects, artists, and designers who explored unique approaches to teaching, practice, and research in the postindustrial city of Detroit. These women explored the phenomenon of a new “ecological urbanism” through their own work in art, architecture, design, planning, landscape architecture, and installation as well as the work of their students. Teaching and Designing in Detroit provides an eighteen-year snapshot of this work, how it affected the women’s practice, how they influenced student relationships to design and community development, and how their visions are now being carried out in Detroit. This book is organized into sections that group stories according to their focus on practice, pedagogy, and community engagement. Included in the book is a foreword by Leslie Kanes Weisman, the only female architecture professor at the University of Detroit Mercy in the 1970s, and an afterword by Sharon Egretta Sutton reflecting on how working and practicing in Detroit foreshadowed the future vision now being carried out in the rebounding city of Detroit. An intriguing read for students and professionals, this book will illustrate how these lessons learned can be applied by universities and communities in other postindustrial cities.

Author : Julie Pincus
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,70 MB
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0814338801

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It will be essential reading for anyone interested in arts and culture in the city.

Author : Michele V. Ronnick
Publisher : The Regents of the Univ of Michigan
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 32,93 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0933691092

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A comparative study of urban form and the reuse of buildings in modern Detroit and Rome (Italy). This exhibition catalog includes 3 U scholarly essays and 25 catalog entries describing the Usage history of buildings in Detroit & Rome.

Author : Jack Dempsey
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 20,34 MB
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1625848676

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Capitol Park is the only city park in America where a state's first governor is buried. It's the birthplace of democracy in Michigan. Underground Railroad site. Streetcar and transit hub. Urban canyon. A block north of Detroit's iconic Coney Island restaurants. A symbol of the city's late twentieth-century decay, now a key part of its revitalization in a new millennium. Jack Dempsey, award-winning author of "Michigan and the Civil War" and president of the Michigan Historical Commission, uncovers tales of a uniquely inspirational public space that epitomizes the ups and downs of Detroit's three centuries.