Most picture Vermont with handsome barns overlooking rolling pastures, white country churches punctuating hillsides of blazing maples, and small villages clustered around gracious greens. While not inaccurate, this image does little justice to the architectural richness of a state that retains so significant a variety of building types, landscapes, and historic environments that it was declared a national historic treasure by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Buildings of Vermont looks beyond the stereotypes to explain the remarkable range, quality, humanity, and persistence of a built landscape that has a compelling appeal to visitors and residents alike. This volume showcases Vermont’s rich stew of styles and types begun with traditions from colonial and early federal New England and New York and enriched over time by the contributions of immigrants from Scotland, English and French Canada, Ireland, Italy, Scandinavia, and Eastern Europe. It explores their dissemination up transportation routes. It showcases local materials (timber, limestone, marble, granite, early iron, brick, and slate) and technologies that range from log and braced frame through cobblestone and snecked ashlar to metal fabrication. It includes classic examples of vernacular types, functional structures, and pattern-book and mail-order designs, along with high-style statements from the likes of Ammi B. Young, Richard Upjohn, Henry Hobson Richardson, McKim, Mead and White, Jens Larsen, Peter Eisenman, and noteworthy regional and local architects and builders who have previously received little attention. Both conservative and trendsetting, the buildings range from some of America’s finest Federal and Greek Revival meetinghouses, early Gothic Revival churches, Victorian inns, Italianate and panel brick business rows, wood-framed general stores, robber-baron estates, and hippie houses, as well as early water-powered mills, large railroad and factory complexes with nearby workers’ housing, summer camps, roadside cabins, and ski resorts.
A volume in the Buildings of the United States series of the Society of Architectural Historians

Buildings of Vermont (Buildings of the United States)

History

Andres, Glenn M.

Johnson, Curtis B.

Americas

University of Virginia Press

with photos of the buildings and projects

HHPA: Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates: Buildings and Projects 1993-1998

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Rizzoli

Now recognized as one of America's eminent architectural firms, Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates first appeared on the scene in the late 1960's with a series of highly innovative designs that took the profession by storm. During the thirty years of HHPA's practice, the firm has maintained its spirit of collaboration and experimentation while expanding into larger-scale and more ambitious projects. This second Rizzoli monograph on the firm's work spans the last five years, a period of prodigious growth for HHPA. Among the fifty projects presented with detailed descriptions and numerous illustrations are Windows on the World restaurant in the World Trade Center and Bryant Park in New York; the Cleveland Public Library; the Hawaii Theatre Center in Honolulu; the comprehensive development plan for the Warner Bros. Hollywood Studios; and the Los Angeles Public Library. A catalog of the work and partner's and associates' biographies complete the volume.Now recognized as one of America's eminent architectural firms, Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates first appeared on the scene in the late 1960's with a series of highly innovative designs that took the profession by storm. During the thirty years of HHPA's practice, the firm has maintained its spirit of collaboration and experimentation while expanding into larger-scale and more ambitious projects. This second Rizzoli monograph on the firm's work spans the last five years, a period of prodigious growth for HHPA. Among the fifty projects presented with detailed descriptions and numerous illustrations are Windows on the World restaurant in the World Trade Center and Bryant Park in New York; the Cleveland Public Library; the Hawaii Theatre Center in Honolulu; the comprehensive development plan for the Warner Bros. Hollywood Studios; and the Los Angeles Public Library. A catalog of the work and partner's and associates' biographies complete the volume.

Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates: Buildings and Projects 1993-1998

Since the radiant years of the Renaissance, the city of Florence has come for many to represent the greatest triumph of the Western cultural tradition. This is the city where humanism was born, where Plato was discussed passionately in the narrow streets, and where men and women first found themselves to be the measure of all things. For more than three centuries Florence nurtured a creative community of astounding, even revolutionary genius. Here, starting in the late 1200s, Giotto painted the grave and powerful frescoes that drew Florence and the world toward a radical new vision of realism, and here, ushering in the dazzling era of the High Renaissance, Michelangelo began his incomparable career as architect, sculptor, and painter. During the intervening years, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Ghiberti, Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Raphael, Leonardo, and hundreds of the most splendidly talented artists in history lived and worked in this small city on the Arno and collaborated in the creation of the great urban museum we know as Florence. Matching an elegant and sophisticated text by three leading art historians with hundreds of glorious color photographs, The Art of Florence immerses us in a city and a time of unparalleled cultural ferment. This important and uncommonly beautiful publication analyzes the history of Florentine art in terms of the distinctly Florentine and Tuscan influences that shaped it—an approach never before employed in a study of this breadth and complexity. The fascinating and lucid text by Glenn Andres, John Hunisak, and Richard Turner gracefully links Florentine architecture, sculpture, and painting to the rich social fabric and the dramatic political life of the city. Woven into this compelling history is the most luxurious and comprehensive visual documentation available of Florence's unrivaled treasures. More than 700 color images and another 854 duotones and architectural drawings have been reproduced with a meticulous care worthy of the Renaissance craft tradition. Joining visual beauty with intellectual rigor in a fashion that truly invokes the spirit of this great city, The Art of Florence presents as rich a vision of human creativity as we can find anywhere outside Florence itself.

The Art of Florence [2 volumes]

Turner, Richard

Hunisak, John

History & Criticism

Artabras

"Accompanies an exhibition held at the Middlebury College Museum of Art from January 10-March 7, 1993"--Title page verso.

Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates: Concepts and Buildings

Middlebury College Museum of Art

Middlebury College

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