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Fish Town
Down the Road to Louisiana's Vanishing Fishing Communities
Blatty, J. T. Fish Town is an inspired documentary project focused on preserving, through photography and oral history recordings, the cultural and environmental remains of...
Natural Virginia
Greenberg, BenA century ago, legendary photographer Edward Curtis set about to capture the traditional world of Native Americans before that world vanished. Now, Ben Greenberg has done the...
Decorative Games
Ornament, Rhetoric, and Noble Culture in the Work of GillesMarie Oppenord (16721742)
Bédard, Jean-François[Book description not available]
The Oglethorpe Plan
Enlightenment Design in Savannah and Beyond
Wilson, Thomas D.The statesman and reformer James Oglethorpe was a significant figure in the philosophical and political landscape of eighteenth-century British America. His social...
The Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture
The First Forty Years (1966-2005)
Riew, Jayne, Brandt, Lydia Mattice, Van Lengen, KarenThe Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture is one of the most prestigious honors awarded in the discipline of architecture and its related fields, arising from the...
Theory and Practice in Eighteenth Century Dance
The German French Connection
Russell, Tilden[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...
Commemoration in America
Essays on Monuments, Memorialization, and Memory
Gobel, David, Rossell, DavesCommemoration lies at the poetic, historiographic, and social heart of human community. It is how societies define themselves and is central to the institution of the city....
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,...
New Orleans
The Making of an Urban Landscape
Lewis, Peirce F."By weaving in a single narrative the city's siting, geography, spatial qualities, culture, economy, society, and tragedy, it affords us an exceptional insight into the city as...
Healthy Environments, Healing Spaces
Practices and Directions in Health, Planning, and Design
Beatley, Timothy, Jones, Carla L., Rainey, ReubenThis collection of essays by leading scholars and practitioners addresses a timely and essential question: How can we design, plan, and sustain built environments that will...
Buildings of North Dakota
Martens, Steve C., Ramsay, Ronald H. L. M.For many people outside the state, North Dakota conjures visions of a remote, sparse, and seemingly inhospitable landscape, replete with ghost towns, scattered farmsteads, and...
Buildings of Savannah
Williams, Robin B.Winner of Best Guidebook Award 2018 from the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians While Savannah's famous urban plan is rightly renowned in many...
Material Witnesses
Domestic Architecture and Plantation Landscapes in Early Virginia
Wells, CamilleThe Chesapeake region of eastern Virginia and Maryland offers a wealth of evidence for readers and researchers who want to discover what life was like in early America. In this...
Drone Art
Low Altitude Landscapes
Vigour, JohnThe wide-angle aerial photographs collected here display the Commonwealth’s beauty as never seen before. Shot using a camera on a bird-sized model helicopter, these panoramic...
Florence
A Map of Perceptions
Ponsi, AndreaMany years have passed since architect Andrea Ponsi settled in Florence, and still he feels he does not fully comprehend this mysterious city. The way Florence eludes...
Complementary Visions of Louisiana Art
The Laura Simon Nelson Collection at The Historic New Orleans Collection
[Book description not available]
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...
Grant Wood's Secrets
Taylor, SueIncorporating copious archival research and original close readings of American artist Grant Wood’s iconic as well as lesser-known works, Grant Wood’s Secrets reveals...
Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Ravenal, John B.Containing 114 reproductions of works ranging from Jackson Pollock’s dynamic 1948 drip painting to Kehinde Wiley’s 2006 hip-hop-meets-Old-Master portrait, Modern and...
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...
Unfinished Blues
Memories of a New Orleans Music Man
Battiste, Harold R.[Book description not available]
Selections from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Barriault, AnneIncluding an updated introduction to VMFA’s history as well as full-color reproductions of art from the permanent collection, this newly designed, revised, and expanded edition...