Illustrated history of American architectural styles and city planning has special emphasis on today's redevelopment and urban sprawl problems

American Architecture and Urbanism

History

Vincent Scully

Americas

Henry Holt (Paper)

Modern Architecture

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Studio Vista

Years of research and travel were devoted to this book. Scores of sites were restudied on the spot, including many lesser-known sanctuaries throughout the Hellenic world. The study includes reconstruction drawings, plans, and maps along with its richly illustrated, detailed discussions of major sites. The 1969 revised edition, in which Professor Scully expanded the text and enriched it with the fruit of new researches and writings, is here made newly available.

The Earth, the Temple and the Gods: Greek Sacred Architecture

Yale University Press

Distinguished by long, sloping gables, horizontal lines, and a continuous shingle covering on the exterior, the Shingle Style's essential objective was the creation of expanding, flowing space. The Shingle Style embodied intellectual pluralism and cultural democracy―ideals fundamental to American belief and developed quickly and richly. After a period of reaction against the Shingle Style, it was revitalized, finding its first fully renewed expression in 1959 in a design for a beach house by Robert Venturi. Vincent Scully details this reemergence, revealing the complex and crucial role of influence in the shaping of this movement. 134 black-and-white illustrations

The Shingle Style Today: Or The Historian's Revenge

History & Criticism

George Braziller, Inc.

Michael Graves: Buildings And Projects 1966-1981

Shows designs by the influential architect for office buildings, beach houses, showrooms, homes, conversion projects, and furniture

Michael Graves: Buildings and Projects 1966-1981

Ted Bickford

Rizzoli International Publications

French Royal Gardens: The Designs of Andre Le Notre

Rizzoli

In this first major book devoted to the history of Yale s architecture and planning, four authors explore the physical shaping and reshaping of a great university that for over three centuries has been entangled with the idealism, ambition, and fate of its host city. The catalyst for much of the scholarly work is Vincent Scully, who grew up in New Haven when it was dominated by mighty factories, studied at Yale when James Gamble Rogers's Gothic colleges were still very new, became an influential member of the art history faculty soon after the Second World War, and is still teaching at Yale. Scully introduces the present critical history with an incisive overview of the architectural relationship between Yale and New Haven and concludes it with a memoir assessing Yale's widely influential modern building program, which has profoundly affected the course of American architecture and planning. He follows these themes through New Haven's redevelopment projects of the 1960s, subsequent urban problems, and Yale's recent role in the city s revitalization.Six other essays-- by Catherine Lynn, Erik Vogt, and Paul Goldberger-- take up many of Scully s topics in greater detail: the scriptural basis for New Haven's nine-square plan of 1638, unique in the English colonies; the rise and fall of Yale s Brick Row, designed by John Trumbull and James Hillhouse; the university's Victorian building experiments and brief enthusiasm for grand classical monuments; New Haven s Civic Improvement Plan of 1910, by Cass Gilbert and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.; John Russell Pope s plan of 1919 for a greatly expanded Yale campus; and the relationship of Rogers's closed quadrangles to the city's streets, with an assessment of the ways Rogers coped with the contradictory goals of civic generosity and institutional privacy. Fully illustrated with 47 color and 288 black-and-white images.

Yale in New Haven: Architecture and Urbanism

Catherine Lynn

Eric Vogt and Paul Goldberger

Yale University, Office Of The Printer

Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade

St.Martin's Press

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