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Canon Of The Five Orders Of Architecture

by David Watkin, Giacomo Barozzi Da Vignola e John Leeke

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 One of history's most published architectural treatises, this Renaissance volume identifies the five orders â€" Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite â€" and illustrates them in full-page elevational detail.
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On Architecture: Bks. I-X

by M.H. Morgan e Vitruvius

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 The oldest and most influential book ever written on architecture, this volume describes the classic principles of symmetry, harmony, and proportion as well as the ancients' methods, materials, and aesthetics. Authoritative translation.
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Castles - Their Construction And History

by Sidney Toy

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 Concise, scholarly survey traces castle development from ancient roots. Nearly 200 photographs and drawings illustrate moats, keeps, baileys, and many other features. Caernarvon Castle, Dover Castle, Hadrian's Wall, Tower of London, and more. 199 black-and-white illustrations.
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Drawings And Plans Of Frank Lloyd Wright - The Early Period (1893-1909)

by Frank Lloyd Wright

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 <P>"I would much rather build than write about building, but when I am not building, I will write about building — or the significance of those buildings I have already built." — Frank Lloyd Wright<BR>Frank Lloyd Wright built a body of works and drawings to illustrate and explain his work: collections of designs with commentary that temperamentally parallel that work: irascible, radical, powerful and dense, astonishing and simple in its clarity. One of his earliest published works illustrates the parallel, preserving  thought and design at a prophetic moment, shortly before Wright's genius and fame captured two continents and many converts. The Wasmuth portfolio of drawings (named after the original German publisher) is reproduced here from an extremely rare first edition (1910).<BR>Wright's polemical preface indicates the importance he attached to the drawings and their publication: ". . . the work illustrated in this volume, with the exception of the work of Louis Sullivan, is the first consistent protest in bricks and mortar against this pitiful waste [academic, inorganic styles]. It is a serious attempt to formulate some industrial and aesthetic ideals that in a quiet, rational way will help to make a lovely thing of an American's home environment. . . ." "Home environment" for Wright was the Midwestern plain; these these drawings, perhaps his earliest experiments in organic design, partake of the Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin prairie with their emphasis on the horizontal ("the line of domesticity") and the environmental motif: "A beautiful elm standing near gave the suggestion for the mass of the building," Wright says of the Winslow house in River Forest, Illinois, a dwelling he cites as the first embodiment of many of his ideas. Elegant full-page architectural drawings and plans show Wright's atelier in Oak Park, Illinois, many homes, cottages, banks, a burial chapel, Unity Church temple, a concrete house designed for <I>Ladies' Home Journal</I> and numerous studies for buildings, treated as problems in design, that were never built.<BR>The republication of this rare work gives access again to what has been called "the single most important collection of work published by Frank Lloyd Wright." Students of American architectural genius will find here the seeds of Wright's greatness.</P>
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Victorian Wooden And Brick Houses With Details

by A J Bicknell & Co

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 81 illustrations depict floor plans, elevations, and other details of suburban residences, capturing the elaborate, distinctive beauty of Victorian-era cornices, staircases, gables, verandas, doors, dormers, and more.
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The Metroplois Of Tomorrow

by Hugh Ferriss

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 The metropolis of the future â€" as perceived by architect Hugh Ferriss in 1929 â€" was both generous and prophetic in vision. This illustrated essay on the modern city and its future features 59 illustrations.
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Victorian Domestic Architectural Plans And Details: V. 1 - 734 Scale Drawings Of Doorways, Windows, Staircases, Moldings, Cornices, And Other Elements

by William T. Comstock

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 Rare treasury of floor plans, elevations, perspective drawings for houses and cottages in Queen Anne, Eastlake, Elizabethan, Colonial, and other styles. Large engraved plates also contain scaled drawings of nearly 700 architectural details.
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Castles - Their Construction And History

by S. Toy

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 Concise, scholarly survey traces castle development from ancient roots. Nearly 200 photographs and drawings illustrate moats, keeps, baileys, and many other features. Caernarvon Castle, Dover Castle, Hadrian's Wall, Tower of London, and more. 199 black-and-white illustrations.
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Vitruvius Britannicus - The Classic Of Eighteenth-Century British Architecture

by Colen Campbell

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 This groundbreaking work established Neo-Palladianism as the national style, overthrowing Baroque trends and anointing Inigo Jones as the British Vitruvius. Its 300 illustrations include facades, grounds, exteriors, and perspective views.
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The Seven Lamps Of Architecture

by John Ruskin

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 Classic work by great Victorian expresses his deepest convictions of the nature and role of architecture and its aesthetics. Authoritative edition includes reproductions of 14 plates of Ruskin's architectural drawings.
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The Four Books Of Architecture

by Andrea Palladio

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 Exemplary reprint of 16th-century classic. Covers classical architectural remains, Renaissance revivals, classical orders, more. 216 plates. ". . . the most influential book published in the history of architecture." â€" Art in America.
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American Country Houses Of The Gilded Age - (Sheldon'S "Artistic Country-Seats")

by A. Lewis

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 <DIV><DIV>The "Gilded Age," the three decades following the Civil War, were years of astounding economic growth. Vast empires in oil, shipping, mining, banking, lumber, transportation, and related industries were formed. It was an era in which fortunes were made and lost quickly, almost easily; a period that encouraged ― nearly demanded ― the public display of this newly acquired wealth, power, and prestige. It was during these heady, turbulent years that a new type of domestic architecture first appeared on the American landscape. Called the "country seat" or "cottage," these houses were grandiose in scale ― imposing facades complemented by manicured gardens, with exceptionally large and impressive reception rooms, halls, parlors, dining rooms, and other public areas. Intended exclusively for the very well-to-do, these buildings were designed by some of the finest and most influential architectural firms in America: McKim, Mead & White; Bruce Price; Peabody & Stearns; Theophilus P. Chandler, Jr.; Lamb & Rich; Wilcox & Johnston; and many others. <BR>The first, best, and most exquisite documentation of this surge of architectural creativity was the 1886–87 publication of George William Sheldon's <I>Artistic Country-Seats: Types of Recent American Villa and Cottage Architecture with Instances of Country-Club Houses. </I>It presented exceedingly fine photographs, clearly detailed plans and elevations, as well as Sheldon's own commentary for a total of 97 buildings (93 houses and 4 casinos). Most structures were located in new England and the Middle Atlantic states, and embraced the full spectrum of architectural and artistic expressions. This present volume reproduces all of Sheldon's fascinating and historically important photographs and plans, and adds a new, thoroughly accurate text by Arnold Lewis (Professor of Art, the College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio) that includes the most useful information supplied by Sheldon and also reports on the present condition of each house or casino, providing analyses of elevations and plans, observations about family life in the 1880s, and brief biographical comments about the clients and architects. <BR>Sheldon's photographs connect us with a time and style of living that today increasingly seem more the realm of fiction than fact. Yet, in the pages of this important collection, they are brought fresh to life as they appeared when they were new and times were very different. </DIV></DIV>
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Henry Hobson Richardson And His Works

by Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer

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Vitruvius Scoticus - Plans, Elevations, And Sections Of Public Buildings, Noblemen'S And Gentlemen'S Houses In Scotland

by William Adam

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 This classic portfolio features elevations, floor plans, and other line drawings by Scotland's first great classical architect. Only inexpensive edition of the volume that guided 19th-century American builders. 160 plates.
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Frank Lloyd Wright'S Fallingwater - The House And Its History

by Donald Hoffmann

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 A total revision of the standard document on Fallingwater, the boldest, most personal architectural statement of Wright's mature years. Updated with valuable new material. "Fascinating." â€" The New York Times. 116 illustrations.
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Georgian Architectural Designs And Details - The Classic 1757 Stylebook

by Abraham Swan

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Gibbs' Book Of Architecture - An Eighteenth-Century Classic

by James Gibbs

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 Gibbs's legendary 1728 folio includes perspectives and blueprints for such magnificent commissions as London's St. Martin in the Fields; the Senate House of the University of Cambridge; plus fine drawings of marble cisterns, iron gates, funeral monuments, and more.

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