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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...
Mirrors of Memory
Culture, Politics, and Time in Paris and Tokyo
White, James W.As society becomes more global, many see the world’s great cities as becoming increasingly similar. But while contemporary cultures do depend on and resemble each other in...
In Death Lamented
The Tradition of Anglo-American Mourning Jewelry
Nehama, Sarah In Death Lamented: The Tradition of Anglo-American Mourning Jewelry illustrates and explains prime examples of rings, bracelets, brooches, and other pieces of mourning...
Complementary Visions of Louisiana Art
The Laura Simon Nelson Collection at The Historic New Orleans Collection
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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...
Carolina Cottage
A Personal History of the Piazza House
Little, Margaret RuthMargaret Ruth Little’s new book is a celebration and a history of one of the most recognizable vernacular house types in the Upper South, the Carolina cottage. The one-and-one-...
Biography of a Tenement House in New York City
An Architectural History of 97 Orchard Street
Dolkart, Andrew S."I trace my ancestry back to the Mayflower," writes Andrew S. Dolkart. "Not to the legendary ship that brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620, but to the more...
Capturing Beauty
American Impressionist and Realist Paintings from the McGlothlin Collection
Curry, David ParkDrawn entirely from the collection of James W. and Frances G. McGlothlin of Austin, Texas—one of the largest holdings of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American...
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...
Siting Jefferson
Contemporary Artists Interpret Thomas Jefferson's Legacy
Hartz, JillIn the summer of 2000, the University of Virginia Art Museum mounted an unusual site-specific exhibition called "Hindsight/Fore-site: Art for the New Millennium," for which...
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...
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...