Tennessee Log BuildingsA Folk Tradition

Drawing on more than four decades of research, Tennessee Log Buildings examines one of the Volunteer State’s most precious—and fast-disappearing—traditions. From the pioneer era through the mid–twentieth century, folk builders in Tennessee used logs to construct cabins, barns, other outbuildings, schools, and churches. In warm, accessible prose that often makes this deep…

Experiencing American HousesUnderstanding How Domestic Architecture Works

A well-illustrated, holistic overview of how American domestic spaces have changed over four hundred years, Experiencing American Houses encourages readers to think creatively about houses in terms of their function as opposed to their appearance. This captivating volume helps the reader step into the lived experience of the evolving American house: understanding, for example, why a nineteenth-…

Nashville ArchitectureA Guide to the City

"This book is one that all residents of Nashville—and visitors, too—are going to want to have on their bookshelves." —Don H. Doyle, author of Nashville since the 1920s Since the turn of the eighteenth century, social movements and technological advances have strongly impacted cosmopolitan identity in America. Nashville, in particular, has experienced one transformation after another as c…

William Strickland and the Creation of an American Architecture

“William Strickland and the Creation of an American Architectureis a significant contribution to the professional career of William Strickland and the history of architecture in the United States. Very little has been written about Strickland, one of the most important proponents of the Greek Revival style of architecture in the U.S. His work primarily in Philadelphia, but also elsewhere,…

Remembering Roadside AmericaPreserving the Recent Past as Landscape and Place

The use of cars and trucks over the past century has remade American geography—pushing big cities ever outward toward suburbanization, spurring the growth of some small towns while hastening the decline of others, and spawning a new kind of commercial landscape marked by gas stations, drive-in restaurants, motels, tourist attractions, and countless other retail entities that express our n…

William Macy StantonArchitect of the Cumberland

In 1933, President Franklin Roosevelts New Deal launched the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Subsistence Homesteads Division to help bring economic relief to families and communities devastated by the Great Depression. With the creation of these new programs came a need for the infrastructure that could support them, and for this, the Roosevelt administration turned to William Macy Stanton. …

The Elements of ConstructionN. Clifford Ricker, Architecture, and the Univers…

A pioneer of architecture education in the United States, N. Clifford Ricker notably taught with an emphasis on construction and shop practice in his teaching. Marci S. Uihlein edits and elaborates on The Elements of Construction, the text on building materials that Ricker wrote and used in his teaching, but never published. The book is a window into the expanding possibilities of the late nine…

Das Bauernhaus in Thüringen

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Der Dom zu Aachen und seine EntstellungEin kunstwissenschaftlicher Protest

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Mies van der Rohes "Villa Tugendhat". Eine Ikone der Moderne und ihr Platz im…

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