Essays on the specifically American aspects of the art of the French-educated architect.

H.H. Richardson: Architectural Forms for an American Society

Arts & Photography

O’Gorman, James F.

Architecture

Univ of Chicago Pr

Essays on the specifically American aspects of the art of the French-educated architect.

H. H. Richardson: Architectural Forms for an American Society

University of Chicago Press

O'Gorman discusses the individual and collective achievement of the recognized trinity of American architecture: Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-86), Louis Sullivan (1856-1924), and Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959). He traces the evolution of forms created during these architects' careers, emphasizing the interrelationships among them and focusing on the designs and executed buildings that demonstrate those interrelationships. O'Gorman also shows how each envisioned the building types demanded by the growth of nineteenth-century cities and suburbs—the downtown skyscraper and the single-family home. [A] brilliant analysis . . . a major contribution to our understanding of the beginnings of modern American architecture."—David Hamilton Eddy, Times Higher Education Supplement.

Three American Architects: Richardson, Sullivan, and Wright, 1865-1915

ABC of Architecture

Demco Media

A gracefully written, detailed portrait of the most prominent American architect of the nineteenth century--the first biography of its subject--features 150 color and black-and-white photographs of his buildings, from Boston's Trinity Church to Chicago's Glessner House. 10,000 first printing.

Living Architecture

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Simon&Schuster

Monhegan Museum

Deci, Edward L.

Shettleworth, Earle G.

Grey, Emily

Pye, Jennifer G.

Stahl, Robert L.

Monhegan Historical And Cultural Museum Association

Monhegan Museum Of Art & History

This collection of both famous and little-known nineteenth-century Boston architectural drawings offers a unique picture of the ideas behind the building of one of America's greatest cities.

On the Boards: Drawings by Nineteenth-Century Boston Architects

University of Pennsylvania Press

ABC of Architecture is an accessible, nontechnical introduction to architectural structure, history, and criticism. Author James F. O'Gormon moves seamlessly from a discussion of the most basic inspiration for architecture (the need for shelter from the elements), to an exploration of space, system, and material, and, finally, to an examination of the language and history of architecture. He shows the nonspecialist how to read a design in plans, sections, and elevations, and how architects, like other artists, make creative use of space and light.

"Little by little the gap grows larger and larger between people and their roots. Western life now plays out far from its origins in nature and history. Think of this essay as a pause in that on-rushing existence."—From the Introduction
A traveler along the banks of the Connecticut River will be struck by the number of long low sheds rising from the fields as if they are an extension of the landscape. A building type shaped by necessity that grows more beautiful with use and age, these are tobacco curing sheds, mute witnesses to a slowly vanishing agricultural tradition and a thriving economic boom of the last hundred and fifty years.
Surprisingly, the Connecticut River valley was once a major producer of cigar leaf tobacco. One of the plants whose cultivation was learned from the native Americans, tobacco was the main crop of many old Yankee farmers and, after them, the Slavic newcomers. The need to season the "Indian weede" gave rise to the structure of the drying barns, a vernacular style unique to its time and place. Just as a picture can throw light on an entire world, so can these drying sheds open a window on a way of life that is fast receding.
James F. O'Gorman reads through oral histories, newspaper reports, and the terse factual writing of agricultural diaries to bring to life the risks and rewards of living close to the seasons, at the mercy of rainfall and sunshine. He has collected an array of vintage and newly commissioned photos of the work of growing tobacco, from de facto portraits of anonymous laborers to images of the sheds themselves, with all their ventilating doors open, welcoming the air. In this beautifully crafted book, O'Gorman treats both the people and the sheds with the respect and admiration their precarious presence requires.
An inquiry that becomes an elegy for a way of life that is part of our rural heritage, Connecticut Valley Vernacular is an appreciative glance back by one of our premier architectural historians.

Connecticut Valley Vernacular: The Vanishing Landscape and Architecture of the New England Tobacco Fields

History

Americas

S159 - INDIANA UNIV PR

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