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Enigmatic Stream
Industrial Landscapes of the Lower Mississippi River
Sexton, RichardAs it churns toward its terminus in southeastern Louisiana, the Mississippi River becomes a wide, muddy superhighway of activity, matched in might only by the megastructures of...
Environmental Design
Architecture, Politics, and Science in Postwar America
Sachs, AvigailMuch of twentieth-century design was animated by the creative tension of its essential duality: is design an art or a science? In the postwar era, American architects sought to...
Buildings of Wisconsin
Weisiger, MarshaFrom Milwaukee to Madison, Racine to Eau Claire, La Crosse to Sheboygan, and scores of places in between, tradition and progressivism have shaped Wisconsin's architectural...
American Autopia
An Intellectual History of the American Roadside at Midcentury
Esperdy, GabrielleEarly to mid-twentieth-century America was the heyday of a car culture that has been called an "automobile utopia." In American Autopia, Gabrielle Esperdy examines how the...
The Woman behind the Lens
The Life and Work of Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1864–1952
Berch, BettinaTry to picture Mark Twain, or Uncle Remus, or even Theodore Roosevelt. More than likely, you have a Frances Benjamin Johnston image in your mind. Johnston was a significant—and...
Buildings of Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania
Donnelly, Lu, Brumble, H. David IV, Toker, Franklin Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania considers the architecture, landscape, and town plans of thirty-one counties west of Blue Mountain and...
The Law School at the University of Virginia
Architectural Expansion in the Realm of Thomas Jefferson
Herrington, Philip MillsAs a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a masterwork of Thomas Jefferson, the "Academical Village" at the heart of the University of Virginia has long attracted the attention of...
American Art at the Chrysler Museum
Selected Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture
Hagood, Margaret Jarman, Harrison, Jefferson C.[Book description not available]
"The Most Segregated City in America"
City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920–1980
Connerly, Charles E.One of Planetizen’s Top Ten Books of 2006 "But for Birmingham," Fred Shuttleworth recalled President John F. Kennedy saying in June 1963 when he invited black leaders to...
Historic Preservation
Curatorial Management of the Built World
Fitch, James MarstonThis book outlines a complete programme for the restoration and preservation of historic structures and historic sites throughout the world. It is a basic text for both the...
David Finley
Quiet Force for America's Arts
Doheny, David A.Throughout his long and remarkable lifetime, David E. Finley (1890-1977) made brilliant contributions to the cultural life of this country. Yet less than thirty years after his...
Detached America
Building Houses in Postwar Suburbia
Jacobs, James A.During the quarter century between 1945 and 1970, Americans crafted a new manner of living that shaped and reshaped how residential builders designed and marketed millions of...
Essays in Early American Architectural History
A View from the Chesapeake
Lounsbury, Carl R.The essays in this collection represent the type of research that has reshaped our understanding of early American architecture over the past thirty years. Carl R. Lounsbury,...
The Courthouses of Early Virginia
An Architectural History
Lounsbury, Carl R.Court day in early Virginia transformed crossroads towns into forums for citizens of all social classes to transact a variety of business, from legal cases heard before the...
French Baroque Music of New Orleans
Spiritual Songs from the Ursuline Convent (1736)
Lemmon, Alfred E.[Book description not available]
American Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
O'Leary, Elizabeth, Yount, Sylvia, Rawles, Susan J., Curry, David ParkWith this publication, produced in conjunction with the largest expansion in the history of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the full scope of the museum’s outstanding...
The Hand and the Soul
Aesthetics and Ethics in Architecture and Art
Iliescu, SandaThe essays in The Hand and the Soul explore the question of how ethical ideas guiding the design process--a concern for the environment or for social justice--relate to...
Lots of Parking
Land Use in a Car Culture
Jakle, John A., Sculle, Keith A.When the automobile was first introduced, few Americans predicted its fundamental impact, not only on how people would travel, but on the American landscape itself. Instead of...
Louis Kahn
A Life in Architecture
Wiseman, CarterThe man who envisioned and realized such landmark buildings as the Salk Institute, the Kimbell Art Museum, and the National Assembly complex in Bangladesh, Louis Kahn was born...
Rockbridge County Artists and Artisans
Crawford, Barbara, Lyle, Royster, Jr.In Rockbridge County Artists & Artisans, Barbara Crawford and Royster Lyle, Jr., trace the development of many artisans' activities in Rockbridge County - in fine...
Visuality for Architects
Architectural Creativity and Modern Theories of Perception and Imagination
Mitrovic, BrankoWhat is more important in architectural works—their form, shape, and color, or the meanings and symbolism that can be associated with them? Can aesthetic judgments of...
Intelligent Infrastructure
Zip Cars, Invisible Networks, and Urban Transformation
Tierney, T. F.While many of its traditional elements, such as roads and utilities, do not change, urban infrastructure is undergoing a fascinating and necessary transformation in the wake of...
A Closer Look
The Antebellum Photographs of Jay Dearborn Edwards, 1858–1861
[Book description not available]
Country Pursuits
British, American, and French Sporting Art from the Mellon Collections in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Cormack, MalcolmThe Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has long been renowned for its fine collection of sporting art. Owing to Paul Mellon’s interest in this genre, the VMFA’s collection comprises...