Convenient Houses With Fifty Plans For The Housekeeper: Architect And Housewife-A Journey Through The House-Fifty Convenient House Plans-Practical House Building For The Owner-Business Points In Building-How To Pay For A Home This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, impro…
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John Sanford Humphreys. The kitchen fireplace was accompanied by a... even when no real chimney existed. In many of the smallest houses, little false chimneys placed at the point of the hip are used as ornament to the roof. Buttresses...
When championing the commercial buildings and homes that made the Windy City famous, one can't help but mention the brilliant names of their architects—Daniel Burnham, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright, among others. But few people are aware of Henry Ives Cobb (1859–1931), the man responsible for an extraordinarily rich chapter in the city's turn-of-the-century building boom, and fewer…
A historian of medieval art and architecture with a rich appreciation of literary studies, Stephen Murray brings all those fields to bear on a new approach to understanding the great Gothic churches of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Plotting Gothic positions the rhetoric of the Gothic as a series of three interlocking plots: a spatial plot tied to the material construction of the c…
Este libro trata de cómo se reflejan las ideas y las realidades arquitectónicas sobre un plano gráfico. El dibujo de arquitectura se examina desde una perspectiva teórica, al tiempo que se ofrece un breve repaso histórico de sus ejemplos más significativos. Los arquitectos tienen tres formas de expresar sus ideas y de comunicarlas a los demás: el lenguaje natural, el lenguaje gráfico y …
Este libro va dirigido a los jóvenes que se disponen a iniciar los estudios universitarios de Arquitectura y que se interrogan sobre el contenido de la carrera y la naturaleza de la profesión. Para ellos se expone de manera sencilla en qué consiste la formación del arquitecto y el trabajo que realizarán tras abandonar la universidad.Pero el contenido del libro puede también ayudar y ofrec…
Designed for the 1940s family with a "limited budget but unlimited good taste," this fascinating volume presents 56 floor plans and elevations of lovely small homes that originally cost less than {dollar}15,000 to build. Each home, bearing the honorable designation of House-of-the-Month by the era's Monthly Small House Club, Inc., was designed to give prospective homeowners an exceptionally wel…
This vintage volume offers a treasure trove of floor plans, elevations, and details of residences and public buildings. Artists, architects, and historians alike will find it an endless source of inspiration. Featured buildings include villas, cottages, and farm houses as well as churches, schools, banks, and many other structures. Eighty-one remarkably detailed illustrations capture the elabor…
"An anecdotal reminiscence of Americas chief living genius by his son short, unconventional, amusing and on the whole revealing." Book Week. Frank Lloyd Wright is widely regarded as the twentieth centurys greatest architect an unconventional genius who transformed both residential and commercial building design with his concept of organic architecture. During a long and productive life, Wrig…