Architecture - Historic Preservation - General

Life of a Mansion tells the story of the building that Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum calls home. It details how Andrew Carnegie's grand but functional Fifth Avenue mansion--which was pioneering in its design, with an electric elevator and modern steel-frame construction--was constructed. The...

For contractors and do-it-yourselfers alike, this book features professional estimates for popular exterior remodeling and repair projects. RSMeans Exterior Home Improvement Costs includes more than 65 projects with complete, customizable cost breakdowns for doing the work - with or without a contractor. You'll have...

An indispensable tool for renovating and building small and midsized museums, written for those who preserve and interpret our cultural heritage.Author: Robert Herskovitz, Timothy Glines, David GrabitskeISBN-10: 0873518470ISBN-13: 9780873518475Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/15/2012Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 10.90h x 8.40w x 0.60d

Like a sentinel, The Sacred Heart Church-"La iglesia del Sagrado Coraz n de Jes s"-sits at the crossroads, atop a hill, overlooking the bucolic green" valle" of Namb , New Mexico. From the panoramic and hallowed church property, one has clear vistas of the...

Transporting readers from derelict homesteads to imperiled harbors, postindustrial ruins to Cold War test sites, Curated Decay presents an unparalleled provocation to conventional thinking on the conservation of cultural heritage. Caitlin DeSilvey proposes rethinking the care of certain vulnerable sites in terms of ecology...

This lavishly illustrated volume provides a comprehensive view of a unique community that is called by some the "southern part of heaven." Ruth Little tells the story of Chapel Hill's "town" and "gown" from the earliest architecture of the town and campus to the...

The United States' East Coast is rich in maritime history, including a wide array of beautiful lighthouses that mark areas laden with dangerous shoals, shallow points, and rocky bluffs. They mark points of particular concern for mariners traveling the nearby waters. While lighthouses' existence...

Since its publication in 1982 Sir Bernard Feilden's Conservation of Historic Buildings has become the standard text for architects and others involved in the conservation of historic structures. Leading practitioners around the world have praised the book as being the most significant single volume...

Architecture and Armed Conflict is the first multi-authored scholarly book to address this theme from a comparative, interdisciplinary perspective. By bringing together specialists from a range of relevant fields, and with knowledge of case studies across time and space, it provides the first synthetic...

Historic preservation, which started as a grassroots movement, now represents the cutting edge in a cultural revolution focused on "green" architecture and sustainability. This book provides comprehensive coverage of the many facets of historic preservation: the philosophy and history of the movement, the role...

Old Santa Fe Today is an engaging read about Santa Fe's architecture, history, and important figures through its culturally significant properties, among them churches, government buildings, and homes. The book also serves as a walking tour guide for locals and visitors wanting to sightsee....

This monograph compares the city walls of two famous historical cities in China and the West. It tries to reveal the process of the formation of the differences in the defensive walls between the two cities representing the classical Chinese and Western civilizations. The...

A stunning photographic compilation of Egypt's abandoned palaces and grand buildings Between 1860 and 1940, Cairo and other large cities in Egypt witnessed a major construction boom that gave birth to extraordinary palaces and lavish buildings. These incorporated a mix of architectural styles, such...

Author: Dan DimancescuISBN-10: 1716075610ISBN-13: 9781716075612Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/22/2021Pages: 92Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d

At a time when organized heritage protection in Asia is developing at a rapid pace, Architectural Conservation in Asia provides the first comprehensive overview of architectural conservation practice from Afghanistan to the Philippines. The country-by-country analysis adopted by the book draws out local insights,...

Historic Shenandoah: Rediscovering Miami's NeighborhoodsVolume 4: Site FilesVolumes 3 to 6 are companion publications to Historic Shenandoah: Rediscovering Miami's Neighborhoods: Volume 1 and 2. They provide cataloged files for each of the properties researched to compile the study of Miami's Historic Shenandoah Collection. These...

This book provides photographic documentation of the houses on five plotland sites in Shepperton. 27 small colour photographs document Hamhaugh Island in 2004. There are then 14 full page photos of views across the Thames showing the riverside dwelling on the other bank. In...

America's cultural heritage is both rich and richly contested. When New Yorkers won their battle to save Grand Central Terminal, they also won the U.S. Supreme Court's decision upholding the constitutionality of historic preservation laws, the "Penn Central" case, in 1978. This landmark ruling...

"Architectural Flourishes: Tacoma, Washington" is a pictorial guide illustrates the features that capture the city's architecture legacy. The distinctive pre-Modernist examples of the late nineteenth through early twentieth century are liberally disbursed throughout the downtown, Old Town, Stadium, Ruston Point and Proctor districts. Over...

Yangon Echoes welcomes readers behind the fa軋des of heritage buildings to offer intimate views on life in the cosmopolitan city formerly known as Rangoon, Burma. An unprecedented work of oral history, Yangon Echoes is a rich anthology of fascinating life stories exploring notions and...

The claim that heritage practice in Asia is Eurocentric may be well-founded, but the view that local people in Asia need to be educated by heritage practitioners and governments to properly conserve their heritage distracts from the responsibility of educating oneself about the local-popular...

During Britain's post-war period, Television Centre was conceived and built as the new headquarters for the BBC. Bold and ambitious, its design made it the largest 'factory for television' of its kind in the world. Television Centre became the home of some of Britain's...

For over 250 years people have headed to Ramsgate for a day at the seaside - and discovered much more in the process. This book charts Ramsgate's transformation from quiet fishing village to a 'harbour of refuge' and seaside resort, driven by the town's...

Author: Gerhard MackISBN-10: 3038215465ISBN-13: 9783038215462Publisher: BirkhauserLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/26/2014Pages: 344Format: HardcoverWeight: 5.30lbsSize: 13.20h x 9.50w x 1.40d

The book, "The Hays House, Ghosts are People Too!", looks at the life and times of two small town families, all surrounding one Victorian house, built in 1908, by J. F. Buck. I want the reader to embrace and have a deep appreciation for...

Brownsville Architecture: A Visual History reveals the heritage and history of Texas's southernmost city as told by its buildings. Outstanding architectural images by Pino Shah show the influence of diverse cultures and regional styles that have shaped the border city's built environment since 1841....

Cultural heritage identifies and preserves past achievements for the benefit of future generations. Examining the extent to which heritage preservation is feasible in an era governed by modernism and globalization is essential for both regional development and cultural conservation. Conservation, Restoration, and Analysis of...

Archives, museums, and libraries are pivotal to the management and preservation of any society's heritage. Heritage assets should be systematically managed by putting in place proper policies, maintenance procedures, security and risks measures, and retrieval and preservation plans. The Handbook of Research on Heritage...

"An utter delight...it opens windows into the history of this country by showing how some of this country's makers and shapers lived."--Wall Street Journal.From Teddy Roosevelt's estate, Sagamore Hill, on Long Island to Harry Truman's humble home in Independence, Missouri, here are the homes--inside...

The Charterhouse, a former Carthusian monastery in the City of London, has served as private mansion, a boys' school, and, since 1611, as an almshouse, which it remains to this day. This souvenir volume features illustrated essays on its archaeology, history, landscape, environment, and...

There's nothing like a historic home to enlighten us about architectural styles and help us imagine what it was like to live in another time. Such houses can also provide inspiration for enriching our own homes and lifestyles today. Architectural historian Christopher Glass and...

The Plazas of New Mexico documents the rich heritage of New Mexico's plazas and the everyday life and community celebrations that help sustain them. It traces three distinct design traditions -- the Native American center place with kiva and terraced residential blocks, the Hispanic...

OSP Project-Summary To search hidden tombs inside pyramids internal chambers scientists used thermal imaging and radiography experiments to scan Tutkhanam's burial chamber in the Valley of the King and detect cavities in the structure. Under Scan Pyramids Project (SPP) in short] scientists were allowed...

Constructed in 1651, the Dwight-Derby House stands as the centerpiece of the Medfield town common and at the heart of the town's history. Contained within the walls of this 350-year-old time capsule are the stories of two prominent families: the Dwights and the Derbys--united...

What was founded as the Essex County Lunacy Asylum evolved from a single building on South Orange Avenue to a city within itself in Cedar Grove. It was named the Essex County Overbrook Hospital. Construction began on the hospital's iconic brick buildings in 1896,...

Incorporated in 1892, Whitefish Bay is a pleasant, verdant village that is home to more than fourteen thousand people. More than half of its five thousand houses and other structures have been deemed historic or architecturally important. Even casual passersby can attest to the...

Over the past fifty years, preservation policy has evolved very little, despite escalating accusations that landmarking and historic districting can inhibit affordable housing, economic development, and socioeconomic diversity. The potential to understand these dynamics and effect positive change is hindered by a lack of...

The marble workers laboring on the decades-long restoration of the Acropolis are the invisible force rebuilding one of the world's most storied monuments. Inheritors of a millennia-old tradition, few carvers exist today; fewer pass the Acropolis entrance exams. Their work is a highly technical,...

Over a hundred stone craftsmen have worked for over three years on the Humayun's Tomb conservation project. They have used the same tools and techniques that would have been used by craftsmen who built the Tomb in the 16th century. Though sandstone craft skills...

The Past in the Present deals with the complexities in the operation and management of living heritage sites. It presents a new interpretation of such sites based on the concept of continuity, and its evolution to the present. It is demonstrated that the current...

Brighton and Allston Through Time outlines a neighborhood of the city of Boston which was once known as Little Cambridge before it became an independent town from Cambridge in 1807. With contemporary photographs by Peter B. Kingman, Anthony M. Sammarco has created a fascinating...

The Gordon family have a historic woolshed, which was built in 1886. It has been turned into a museum to the sheep industry and has an auditorium, where shearing and dog shows are held for tourists. The idea came to Angus Gordon, one of...

Many people in Brazoria County, Texas, are unaware that a lumbering industry exists or has ever existed in the county. Books and other publications have written about the county's other industries and enterprises such as chemicals, sulfur, oil, rice, cattle, and shrimping. A History...

Galveston Architecture: A Visual Journey' is a photographic journey of the architecture and history of select 100 buildings in Galveston, Texas with photographs by World Heritage Photographer, Pino Shah and narratives by Galveston Historical Foundation (GHF).Author: Pino Shah, Galveston Historical FoundationISBN-10: 0997998482ISBN-13: 9780997998481Publisher: Artbypino.comLanguage:...

Miracle on Fourth Street is the story of the preservation of a family home that belonged to one of the early merchants of New York City. Lived in by one family for almost 100 years, the house was preserved as a museum upon the...

The Student's Instructor In Drawing And Working The Five Order's Of Architecture, by Peter Nicholson - Produced in high resolution color from the rare original in the collection of Gary Roberts, Publisher - www.toolemerapress.com. The Toolemera Press edition includes the exceedingly rare J. Kelly,...

Internationally known historian Roger G. Kennedy details the wonderful story of the evolution of architectural styles of Minnesota from 1830 to 1914.Author: Roger G. KennedyISBN-10: 0873515579ISBN-13: 9780873515573Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2006Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.57lbsSize: 10.02h x 7.08w x 0.68d

The North Carolina Society for the Preservation of Antiquities was founded on the eve of World War II primarily to resurrect Tryon Palace but grew in the postwar era to battle for the preservation of historic buildings throughout the state. Author: David L. S....

The first book to feature this modernist masterpiece, one of Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer's most important residential commissions. Offering a rare opportunity to explore the largest and most luxurious house designed by Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, and Marcel Breuer, leading architect...

The middle Georgia area--including Baldwin, Hancock, Jasper, Johnson, Putnam, Washington, and Wilkinson Counties--is a vast living museum of classic southern architecture. First published in 1972, this sweeping survey remains one of the best books on the topic, covering primitive, Gothic, Greek Revival, and Victorian...