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Historic Preservation: Collective Memory and Historic Identity
ISBN: 9780813522937 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Historic preservation is a cultural movement gaining momentum and adherents throughout Europe and the United States. How do we decide what to preserve and how to preserve? Who benefits from the efforts of preservationists, curators, developers, and other "symbolic bankers" to safeguard an increasing variety of structures for future generations? Diane Barthel raises these and other questions in this important new book. Taking a comparative approach, Barthel finds that preservation in Britain has largely been an elite enterprise aimed at preserving traditional values. In the United States, by...
Historic preservation is a cultural movement gaining momentum and adherents throughout Europe and the United States. How do we decide what to preserve...
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A Guide to Cleveland's Sacred Landmarks
ISBN: 9780873384544 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a developing industrial city during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Cleveland attracted diverse national groups. Their many churches and synagogues served as visual focal points and sociat centers in the city's ethnic neighborhoods. Today the resulting ensemble of sacred landmarks adds much to Cleveland's dynamic and visually interesting architecture. This guide, funded in part by the Ohio Arts and Humanities Councils, spotlights more than 120 of these structures with photographs, maps, and descriptive details about each building's architectural significance, construction,...
As a developing industrial city during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Cleveland attracted diverse national groups. Their many churches and sy...
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Historic Preservation for Professionals
ISBN: 9780873389273 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A broad-based approach to preservation
After completing an extensive survey of preservation programs throughout the United States, authors Virginia O. Benson and Richard Klein saw the need for this comprehensive approach to historic preservation, examining where it has been and where it is going, anticipating that historic preservation must encourage collaborative projects among planning, design, and development professionals. This text focuses on complex economic, political, and social realities facing the profession today. Specifically, Historic... A broad-based approach to preservation
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Historic Homes of Minnesota
ISBN: 9780873515573 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Historic Homes of Minnesota is the engaging story of the evolution of architectural styles in Minnesota from 1830 to 1914--from the influence of the early French traders along the Mississippi and St. Croix to the emergence of the school of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Through photographs and colorfully informative text, internationally known historian Roger Kennedy helps readers understand the unique styles of Minnesota's first homes, including the Mower House in Arcola, the first large house on the St. Croix; Alexander Ramsey's "Mansion House" in St. Paul, influenced by Pennsylvania Dutch... Historic Homes of Minnesota is the engaging story of the evolution of architectural styles in Minnesota from 1830 to 1914--from the influence of the e...
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103,86 |
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Seismic Stabilization of Historic Adobe Structures: Final Report of the Getty Seismic Adobe Project
ISBN: 9780892365876 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book describes tests performed on model adobe buildings used to evaluate seismic damage mitigation techniques applicable to the retrofitting of historic and culturally significant adobe structures. Part of the Getty Seismic Adobe Project (GSAP), the three-year program outlined in this volume was designed to develop and test minimally invasive, inexpensive, and easily implemented methods of protecting such structures from severe earthquake damage. The authors identify typical failure modes of adobe structures and describe specific retrofit techniques to help minimize such failures....
This book describes tests performed on model adobe buildings used to evaluate seismic damage mitigation techniques applicable to the retrofitting of h...
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Planning and Engineering Guidelines for the Seismic Retrofitting of Historic Adobe Structures
ISBN: 9780892365883 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a companion volume to Seismic Stabilization of Historic Abode Structures: Final Report of the Getty Seismic Abode Project, and it offers guidance for planners, architects and engineers in the retrofitting of historic and culturally significant abode structures. The text consists of two parts: a planning guide, which outlines the fundamental conservation principles and preparatory steps in the design of a plan, and an engineering guide, which describes the types of earthquake damage typically encountered in historic abode buildings and presents detailed technical procedures for...
This is a companion volume to Seismic Stabilization of Historic Abode Structures: Final Report of the Getty Seismic Abode Project, and it offers guida...
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206,22 |
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Of the Past, for the Future: Integrating Archaeology and Conservation
ISBN: 9780892368266 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents the proceedings of the conservation theme from the World Archaeological Congress held in Washington, D.C., in 2003.
Presents the proceedings of the conservation theme from the World Archaeological Congress held in Washington, D.C., in 2003.
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335,11 |
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Wallpapers in Historic Preservation
ISBN: 9781410224101 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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107,90 |
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Chasing Covered Bridges: And How to Find Them
ISBN: 9781563119934 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A full color Virtual Encyclopedia"" of America's Covered Bridges Chasing Covered Bridges lists locations, including state, county, etc.) and contains more than 260 full color featured photos, with a total of 800 of these beautiful old structures. Relive America's past through these grand old symbols of times long gone. Join author Paul Parrott, (retired after 22 years in the Navy and nearly 20 years in the U.S. Postal Service), in his travels as he searches to find ""Still yet one more bridge.""""
A full color Virtual Encyclopedia"" of America's Covered Bridges Chasing Covered Bridges lists locations, including state, county, etc.) and contains...
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Bauhaus Dessau: Architecture-Design-Concept
ISBN: 9783939633112 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Walter Gropius's Bauhaus Dessau was, from 1925 to 1932, the headquarters of the famous Bauhaus School of Design. After a dozen years of National Socialist use and then half a century's worth of restoration, it is now a UNESCO world cultural-heritage site, attracting some 80,000 visitors a year who seek the roots of twentieth century Modernism. This is the first book of photographs to document Gropius's masterpiece since its renovation, and it features more than 110 black-and-white images of the building and its wide range of architectural and artistic textures. It illustrates its history, its...
Walter Gropius's Bauhaus Dessau was, from 1925 to 1932, the headquarters of the famous Bauhaus School of Design. After a dozen years of National Socia...
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House in Fez: Building a Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco
ISBN: 9781416578932 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Medina -- the Old City -- of Fez is the best-preserved, medieval walled city in the world. Inside this vibrant Moroccan community, internet cafes and mobile phones coexist with a maze of donkey-trod alleyways, thousand-year-old sewer systems, and Arab-style houses, gorgeous with intricate, if often shabby, mosaic work. While vacationing in Morocco, Suzanna Clarke and her husband, Sandy, are inspired to buy a dilapidated, centuries-old riad in Fez with the aim of restoring it to its original splendor, using only traditional craftsmen and handmade materials. So begins a remarkable...
The Medina -- the Old City -- of Fez is the best-preserved, medieval walled city in the world. Inside this vibrant Moroccan community, internet cafes ...
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Historic Preservation Handbook
ISBN: 9780071589871 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This practical guide to understanding historic architecture and its preservation shows how to analyze and evaluate buildings in order to better renovate existing ones and create outstanding new ones. Heavily illustrated with plans, diagrams, and photos.
This practical guide to understanding historic architecture and its preservation shows how to analyze and evaluate buildings in order to better renova...
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Architectural Conservation: Principles and Practice
ISBN: 9780632040254 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides an introductory text for students in built environment disciplines, as well as those who manage or own historic properties, and those embarking upon architectural conservation professionally. It is designed to give an understanding of the main principles, materials and problems in the field of conservation and it features a number of case studies.
This book provides an introductory text for students in built environment disciplines, as well as those who manage or own historic properties, and tho...
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Protecting Suburban America: Gentrification, Advocacy and the Historic Imaginary
ISBN: 9781474240819 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Protecting Suburban America explores the dynamics and conflicts inherent in preserving historic twentieth-century suburban landscapes in America. Bridging architecture, anthropology, planning, and urban studies, its unique approach combines a study of historic preservation with multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, to shed fascinating light on issues of heritage, preservation, gentrification, class, ethnicity, and contested values in suburbia. These are subjects which reach far beyond the setting of the book's focus in California to touch on topical debates in cities, suburbia,... Protecting Suburban America explores the dynamics and conflicts inherent in preserving historic twentieth-century suburban landscapes in Ame... |
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Holocene Hunter-Gatherers of the Lower Ohio River Valley
ISBN: 9780817355418 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By the Early Holocene (10,000 to 8,000 B.P.), small wandering bands of Archaic hunter-gatherers began to annually follow the same hunting trails, basing their temporary camps on seasonal conditions and the presence of food. The Pleistocene glaciers had receded by this time, making food more plentiful in some areas and living conditions less hazardous. Although these Archaic peoples have long been known from their primary activities as hunters and gatherers of wild food resources, recent evidence has been found that indicates they also began rudimentary cultivation sometime during the Middle...
By the Early Holocene (10,000 to 8,000 B.P.), small wandering bands of Archaic hunter-gatherers began to annually follow the same hunting trails, basi...
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Contested and Shared Places of Memory: History and politics in North Eastern Europe
ISBN: 9780415494564 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Baltic-Russian debates on the past have become a hot spot of European memory politics. Violent protests and international tensions accompanying the removal of the "Bronze Soldier" monument, which commemorated the Soviet liberation of Tallinn in 1944, from the city centre in April 2007 have demonstrated the political impact that contested sites of memory may still reveal. In this publication, collective memories that are related to major traits of the 20th century in North Eastern Europe - the Holocaust, Nazi and Soviet occupation and (re-)emerging nationalisms - are examined... The Baltic-Russian debates on the past have become a hot spot of European memory politics. Violent protests and international tensions accompanying... |
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Creating Colonial Williamsburg: The Restoration of Virginia's Eighteenth-Century Capital
ISBN: 9780807859872 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Creating Colonial Williamsburg, Anders Greenspan examines the restoration and re-creation of the structures and gardens of Virginia's colonial capital beginning in 1926. The restoration was undertaken by the Rockefeller family, whose aim was to promote a twentieth-century appreciation for eighteenth-century ideals. Ironically, those ideals, including democracy, individualism, and representative government, were often promoted at the expense of a more complete understanding of the town's true history. The meaning and purpose of Colonial Williamsburg has changed over time, along with...
In Creating Colonial Williamsburg, Anders Greenspan examines the restoration and re-creation of the structures and gardens of Virginia's coloni...
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Architectural Finishes in the Built Environment
ISBN: 9781904982456 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The International Architectural Paint Research Conference that led to the production of this book was held January 17-19, 2008 at Columbia University in New York City. This book is a compilation of most of the papers that were presented at the conference.
The International Architectural Paint Research Conference that led to the production of this book was held January 17-19, 2008 at Columbia University ...
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Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites : Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
ISBN: 9780415486439 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first book to provide readers with the skills to assess development potential from a holistic standpoint. Until now, architectural books on conservation matters have focused on preservation at a strategic level and restoration at a technical level. This book offers the architect, developer or planner the rules and tools needed to gauge development prospects in an objective and comprehensive manner. Written by an experienced expert in the field it provides the reader with:
The first book to provide readers with the skills to assess development potential from a holistic standpoint. Until now, architectural books on con... |
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The Heritage of Longwood
ISBN: 9781604733983 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Longwood in Natchez, Mississippi, is a celebration of American eccentricity. Dr. Haller Nutt, who made a fortune in cotton during the pre-Civil War boom, wanted a home that would be different, one with -character.- His dream was romantic--to evoke past cultures by using the best from any era. A Philadelphia architect, Samuel Sloan, published a work in 1851 called The Model Architect which featured an -Oriental Villa- in octagonal form with a Byzantine-Moorish dome on top. Using this design, Sloan set about to create a magnificent mansion for Nutt. In April 1861, Nutt's dreams were... Longwood in Natchez, Mississippi, is a celebration of American eccentricity. Dr. Haller Nutt, who made a fortune in cotton during the pre-Civil War... |
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