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Bruce Roberts presents a photographic tour of fourteen of the famous colonial Virginia plantation houses nestled along the shores of the Lower James River from Richmond east to Jamestown and Williamsburg. Now carefully restored, often with the original... [ More...]
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Paul Rudolph, one of the 20th century's most iconoclastic architects, is best known and most maligned for his large 'brutalist' buildings, like the Yale Art and Architecture Building. So it will surprise many to learn that early in his career he developed a... [ More...]
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More than 100 sketches of common house types and styles, maps of the city showing the architectural development in each period, and a glossary of architectural terms make New Orleans Houses a reference guide as well as an art book.
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Architecture on Florida's Key West reflects the diverse and colorful nature of those who have shaped this remote island's character: the grand classical homes of sea captains from New England, the cobbled-together wooden dwellings of ships' carpenters, the... [ More...]
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- History of Florida wood-frame architecture, from the simplest "single-pen" homesteads to the latest homes at Seaside - The double-pen house, the classic dogtrot, the four-square Georgian, and the Cracker townhouse - Cracker homes take best advantage... [ More...]
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Reprint of rare, handsome volume illustrates more than 30 Florida residences designed by great architect in imaginative adaptations of Spanish Colonial style. Also, such landmark creations as the Everglades Club, Via Parigi, the Singer Building, The... [ More...]
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In the late 1880s, two supreme talentsarchitect Richard Morris Hunt and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstedwere brought together by the Vanderbilt fortune. The result was the magnificent Biltmore Estate, explored here in archival and new color... [ More...]
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Sarasota in the 1950s was a small community graced with an alluring natural beauty. What set it apart from so many Florida beachfront towns was the concentration of artists, writers, and architects who gathered there—including author MacKinley Kantor... [ More...]
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Profusely illustrated survey ranges from pioneer cabins to French Provincial and Neoclassic revivals. Over 100 detailed illustrations, including 36 floor plans, depict such venerable residences as The Hermitage, Andrew Jackson's homestead near Nashville;... [ More...]
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