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The Decorative Arts Legacy of Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee
White, Betsy

Linked historically, culturally, and geographically, the counties that make up southwestern Virginia and northeastern Tennessee are also connected by a shared decorative arts...

Buildings of Texas

East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West
Moorhead, Gerald

From Dallas–Fort Worth to El Paso, Goodnight to Marfa to Langtry, and scores of places in between, the second of two towering volumes assembled by Gerald Moorhead and a team of...

Trailers

Burch-Brown, Carol, Rigsbee, David

In an evocative blending of words and images, painter-photographer Carol Burch-Brown and poet David Rigsbee offer a depiction of trailers and their inhabitants. The understated...

Private Passion, Public Promise

The James W. and Frances G. McGlothlin Collection of American Art
Yount, Sylvia

"We have spent the last decade immersed in the world of American art, never suspecting early on that our desire to learn and appreciate this legacy could result in so...

The Last Undiscovered Place

Leff, David K.

With warmth and a keen eye for the nuances of history and place, David K. Leff offers this affectionate, insightful portrait of his adopted home of Collinsville, Connecticut, a...

Complementary Visions of Louisiana Art

The Laura Simon Nelson Collection at The Historic New Orleans Collection

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An Illustrated Glossary of Early Southern Architecture and Landscape

Lounsbury, Carl R.

Covering the full range of building in the South from 1607 to the 1820s, An Illustrated Glossary of Early Southern Architecture and Landscape is now available for the first...

The Hand and the Soul

Aesthetics and Ethics in Architecture and Art
Iliescu, Sanda

The 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...

Southern Built

American Architecture, Regional Practice
Bishir, Catherine W.

A leader in the fields of both regional architectural history and historic preservation, Catherine Bishir has collected essays covering three decades into one volume. Just as...

Healthy Environments, Healing Spaces

Practices and Directions in Health, Planning, and Design
Beatley, Timothy, Jones, Carla L., Rainey, Reuben

This 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...

Portraiture and Friendship in Enlightenment France

Fripp, Jessica L.

Portraiture and Friendship in Enlightenment France examines how new and often contradictory ideas about friendship were enacted in the lives of artists in the...

Buildings of Delaware

Maynard, W. Barksdale

The latest volume in the Society of Architectural Historians' prestigious Buildings of the United States series, Buildings of Delaware is the first book to document the state's...

English Silver

Bliss, Joseph

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Mountain Lake Symposium and Workshop

Art in Locale
Risatti, Howard, Kass, Ray

Contemporary art, interdisciplinary research, traditional Appalachian culture, and advanced technology converge in The Mountain Lake Symposium and Workshop: Artists in...

Visuality for Architects
Architectural Creativity and Modern Theories of Perception and Imagination
Mitrovic, Branko
What 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...

Louis Kahn
A Life in Architecture
Wiseman, Carter
The 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...

Buildings of Virginia
Valley, Piedmont, Southside, and Southwest
Lee, Anne Carter
Virginia is as much a state of mind as a set of geographical boundaries. Its western terrain encompasses dramatically beautiful mountaintops and scrubby lowlands, luxuriantly...

First in the Homes of His Countrymen
George Washington's Mount Vernon in the American Imagination
Brandt, Lydia Mattice
Over the past two hundred years, Americans have reproduced George Washington’s Mount Vernon plantation house more often, and in a greater variety of media, than any of their...

Buildings of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania
Thomas, George E., Ricci, Patricia, Thomas, J. Bruce, Janosov, Robert, Newman, Larry, Webster, Richard J.
This latest volume in the Society of Architectural Historians’ Buildings of the United States series follows the Pennsylvania migration narrative in broad swathes: Philadelphia...