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Description:Abridged by William H. Jordy from the original two-volume, Harvard University Press edition, containing selected essays from Schuyler's contemporaneous monographs on American commercial and residential architecture during the Gilded Age, some abridged. Subjects include the Vanderbilt houses in New York, a survey of several residential and commercial structures of Richardsonian-Romanesque design in Minneapolis-St. Paul, essays on Chicago's World Columbian Exposition, the monumental quality of bridges, and the influence of Louis B. Sullivan on the emerging, function-oriented forms of late-nineteenth century skyscraper design. Finding both flaws and notable achievements in major works by the firm of McKim, Mead & White, Richard Morris Hunt, George B. Post and other prominent architects of the period, Schuyler provides detailed illustrations, accompanied by rigorous critical analysis, with emphasis on massing, proportion, stylistic fluency, decorative embellishment, fenestration and numerous other aesthetic considerations.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with American Architecture and Other Writings (Abridged). To get started finding American Architecture and Other Writings (Abridged), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 328

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Publisher: Atheneum

Release: 1964

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Description: Abridged by William H. Jordy from the original two-volume, Harvard University Press edition, containing selected essays from Schuyler's contemporaneous monographs on American commercial and residential architecture during the Gilded Age, some abridged. Subjects include the Vanderbilt houses in New York, a survey of several residential and commercial structures of Richardsonian-Romanesque design in Minneapolis-St. Paul, essays on Chicago's World Columbian Exposition, the monumental quality of bridges, and the influence of Louis B. Sullivan on the emerging, function-oriented forms of late-nineteenth century skyscraper design. Finding both flaws and notable achievements in major works by the firm of McKim, Mead & White, Richard Morris Hunt, George B. Post and other prominent architects of the period, Schuyler provides detailed illustrations, accompanied by rigorous critical analysis, with emphasis on massing, proportion, stylistic fluency, decorative embellishment, fenestration and numerous other aesthetic considerations.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with American Architecture and Other Writings (Abridged). To get started finding American Architecture and Other Writings (Abridged), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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