[PDF] Architects And Builders In North Carolina eBook

Author : Catherine W. Bishir
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 41,53 MB
Release : 2014-03-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1469620782

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This award-winning, lavishly illustrated history displays the wide range of North Carolina's architectural heritage, from colonial times to the beginning of World War II. North Carolina Architecture addresses the state's grand public and private buildings that have become familiar landmarks, but it also focuses on the quieter beauty of more common structures: farmhouses, barns, urban dwellings, log houses, mills, factories, and churches. These buildings, like the people who created them and who have used them, are central to the character of North Carolina. Now in a convenient new format, this portable edition of North Carolina Architecture retains all of the text of the original edition as well as hundreds of halftones by master photographer Tim Buchman. Catherine Bishir's narrative analyzes construction and design techniques and locates the structures in their cultural, political, and historical contexts. This extraordinary history of North Carolina's built world presents a unique and valuable portrait of the state.

Author : Ashley Group
Publisher :
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 47,28 MB
Release : 2002-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781588620484

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The Home Book series is the most complete local reference to the home industry. This handsome, easy-to-use directory is designed to provide inspiration and practical information in a concise and well-organized manner.Readers of the Home Book series have at their fingertips a detailed source for building, designing, decorating, and landscaping affluent homes in their areas. Whether interested in remodeling a kitchen or building a multi-million dollar dream house, this book can give readers the information they want to get the quality services and products they need.In more than 40 sections, home industry professionals are showcased to inspire the consumer.These professionals include: Custom Home BuildersInterior DesignersArchitectsKitchen & Bath DesignersLandscape Architects and ContractorsSwimming Pool & Spa Designers

Author : Catherine W. Bishir
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 21,61 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780813925394

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"Jacob W. Holt, An American Builder"; "Good and Sufficient Language for Building"; "Black Builders in Antebellum North Carolina"; "Mr. Jones Goes to Richmond: A Note on the Influence of Alexander Parris's Wickham House"; "Philadelphia Bricks for New Bern Jail"; "'Severe Survitude to House Building': The Construction of Hayes Plantation House, 1814-17"; "The Montmorenci--Prospect Hill School: A Study of High-Style Vernacular Architecture in the Roanoke Valley"; "The 'Unpainted Aristocracy': The Beach Cottages of Old Nags Head"; "'A Strong Force of Ladies': Women, Politics, and Confederate Memorial Associations in Nineteenth-Century Raleigh"; "Landmarks of Power: Building a Southern Past, 1885-1915"; "Looking at North Carolina's History Through Architecture"; "Yuppies and Bubbas and the Politics of Culture in Historic Preservation"

Author : Gerald D. Suttles
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,19 MB
Release : 1990-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226781938

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With its extraordinary uniform street grid, its magnificent lake-side park, and innovative architecture and public sculpture, Chicago is one of the most planned cities of the modern era. Yet over the past few decades Chicago has come to epitomize some of the worst evils of urban decay: widespread graft and corruption, political stalemates, troubled race relations, and economic decline. Broad-shouldered boosterism can no longer disguise the city's failure to keep pace with others, its failure to attract new "sunrise" industries and world-class events. For Chicago, as for other rust-belt cities, new ways of planning and managing the urban environment are now much more than civic beautification; they are the means to survival. Gerald D. Suttles here offers an irreverent, highly critical guide to both the realities and myths of land-use planning and development in Chicago from 1976 through 1987.

Author : Dreck Spurlock Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 855 pages
File Size : 38,10 MB
Release : 2004-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1135956294

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Since 1865 African-American architects have been designing and building houses and public buildings, but the architects are virtually unknown. This work brings their lives and work to light for the first time.

Author : Hook and Sawyer
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 24,60 MB
Release : 2016-08-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781333426149

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Excerpt from Some Designs by Hook and Sawyer, Architects, Charlotte, North Carolina: 1892-1902 Hardly a day passes that we do not have inquiries for a catalogue showing some designs of our work. We do not issue a catalogue nor do we encourage the reproduction of buildings that have been built. Originality and artistic design is the secret of our success, together with accuracy and completeness in the services we render. Why not, therefore, take advantage of experience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : J. Wayne Place
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 14,6 MB
Release : 2007-03-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 047172551X

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ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURES Architecture A highly illustrative structural design resource for architects and builders Architectural Structures provides the critical tools and know-how to design and build structures that will withstand wind, earthquakes, and other forces. This major survey of structural design is a useful guide to the fundamentals of establishing the structural concept for a building and dealing with structural issues. Using diagrams, models, computer simulations, case studies, and exercises, Architectural Structures provides a comprehensive narrative that makes selecting and giving shape to structures and structural elements understandable. In addition to developing the necessary vocabulary to effectively work with structural engineers, it helps readers gain a common- sense understanding of principles and issues, the complexities of the design process, and useful analytic methods. This exceptional volume also features: Diagrams, drawings, and photographs supporting complex concepts Helpful case studies illustrating structural behavior and the design of structural systems Information on cost estimation and other practical issues Real-world problems and solutions based on actual building structures