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Impérial Saint-Petersbourg : de Pierre le Grand à Catherine II

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L'histoire de la Russie a au moins deux faces. L'une est tournée vers l'Europe. Et c'est cette face qu'incarne la ville de Saint-Petersbourg. Cette ville comporte dans sa topographie, son architecture et ses traditions, un certain code introduit par Pierre le Grand et qui continue à se refléter en Russie à travers Saint-Petersbourg.

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Town house : architecture and material life in the early american city, 1780-1830

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In this illustrated volume, Bernard Herman provides a history of urban dwellings and the people who built and lived in them in early America. In the eighteenth century, cities were constant objects of idealization, often viewed as the outward manifestations of an organized, civil society. As the physical objects that composed the largest portion of urban settings, town houses contained and signified different aspects of city life, argues Herman. Taking a material culture approach, Herman examines urban domestic buildings from Charleston, South Carolina, to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as well as those in English cities and towns, to better understand why people built the houses they did and how their homes informed everyday city life. Working with buildings and documentary sources as diverse as court cases and recipes, Herman interprets town houses as lived experience. Chapters consider an array of domestic spaces, including the merchant family's house, the servant's quarter, and the widow's dower. Herman demonstrates that city houses served as sites of power as well as complex and often conflicted artifacts mapping the everyday negotiations of social identity and the display of sociability.

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The landmarks of New York : an illustrated record of the city's historic buildings

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"The Landmarks of New York" is a definitive resource book on the architectural history of the city, documenting and illustrating more than 1100 buildings that have been accorded landmark status over the past forty years. The chronological organization gives the reader a sequential overview of the city's architectural richness and diversity. The book presents a broad range of styles and building types - simple colonial farmhouses, churches, schools, librairies, Gilded Age mansions, and the great twentieth-century skycrapers that are recognized throughout the world.

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Habiter le monde : espaces, paysages et architectures chez les Hopi d'Arizona et les Lacandon du Chiapas

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Comment les humains pensent-ils et aménagent-ils leurs espaces de vie ou, pour mieux dire, comment habitent-ils le monde ? Cest pour répondre à cette question que lenseignant en architecture Patrick Pérez, disparu en 2019, se fait anthropologue et part à la rencontre de deux sociétés amérindiennes très différentes lune de lautre, les Hopi dArizona et les Lacandons du Chiapas. Cest le fruit de cette (en)quête qui est livré ici, à travers des textes au style élégant et expressif, mus par un même objectif : donner un sens à laltérité, amener la lectrice ou le lecteur à comprendre ce que sont les Autres, dans toute leur singularité et leur complexité. Une magistrale leçon danthropologie.

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Cason, Pirie, Scott : Louis Sullivan and the Chicago department store

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Long recognized as a Chicago landmark, the Carson Pirie Scott Building also represents a milestone in the development of architecture. The last large commercial structure designed by Louis Sullivan, the Carson building reflected the culmination of the famed architect's career as a creator of tall steel buildings. In this study, Joseph Siry traces the origins of the building's design and analyzes its role in commercial, urban, and architectural history.

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Lost plantations of the South

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The great majority of the South's plantation homes have been destroyed over time, and many have long been forgotten. In Lost Plantations of the South, Marc R. Matrana weaves together photographs, diaries and letters, architectural renderings, and other rare documents to tell the story of sixty of these vanquished estates and the people who once called them home.

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Georgian architectural designs and details : the classic 1757 stylebook

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Outstanding examples of Palladian and Georgian architecture and design. As one of the eighteenth century's architecture writer/designers, Swan came to define many conventions of English rococo detail. Included here is a range of floor plans and detail elevations that demonstrates both Swan's style, as well as the types of homes prevalent in Georgian England and colonial America.

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American house styles: a concise guide

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Colonial, Neoclassical, Queen Anne, Craftsman—what distinguishes one architectural style from another? This book will allow readers to recognize the architectural features and style of virtually any house they encounter. Here, architect John Milnes Baker explains the historical, cultural, and technical influences that shaped each of these styles and many more. Organized in periods, from Early Colonial (1600–1715) to the Modern Movement (1920–60) and beyond, this tour of America’s varied residential architecture is rendered in elevation drawings that precisely illustrate the key characteristics of each style.

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American Arcadia: California and the classical tradition

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Through a lively exploration of material culture, literature, and architecture, 'American Arcadia' offers a tour through California's development as a Mediterranean haven from the late nineteenth century to the present. Art historian Peter J. Holliday traces the classical influence primarily through the evidence of material culture, yet the book emphasizes the stories and people, famous and forgotten, behind the works, such as Florence Yoch, the renowned landscape designer and set designer for Gone with the Wind, and "Sister Aimee" Semple McPherson, the most publicized Christian evangelist of her day, whose sermons filled the Pantheon-like Angelus Temple.

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An American Renaissance: Beaux-Artsarchitecture in New York City

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The Gilded Age, also referred to as the American Renaissance, is an era associated with unparalleled growth, technological advancement, prosperity, and cultural change. Spanning from the 1870s to the 1930s, it marks the first time that the titans of American finance and industry had more wealth than their European counterparts. As the center of this dynamic economy, New York City attracted immigrant workers and millionaires alike. It was not enough for the self-appointed elite to just build their own grand châteaux and palazzos along Fifth Avenue- collectively they dreamed of creating a new metropolis to rival the great cultural capitals of London, Paris, and Rome. To flaunt their newly acquired wealth they needed an architecture dripping in embellishment and historical reference. Enter the Beaux-Arts. This book takes a close look at twenty of the finest examples of Beaux-Arts architecture in New York City. While showing public exteriors, its focus is on the lavish interiors that are associated with the opulence of the Gilded Age- often providing a glimpse inside buildings not otherwise viewable to the public. While some of the buildings and monuments featured are world-renowned landmarks recognizable and accessible to all, others are obscure buildings that history has forgotten.