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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"American architecture"”.
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Precedents in African American architecture
As a sub-sets of American culture, African Americans have not been able to offer culturally specific architectural elements to the design process because the history of African American form and space has not been recognized within academia. This thesis is an attempt to fill the gaps in the African …
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Daniel H. Burnham: his legacy to American architecture
… and leadership characteristics of the American architect Daniel H. Burnham (1846-1912). It will assert that this particular architect had enormous impact on urbanism in the United States. The development of Burnham's design style and his approach to urban planning will be evaluated by …
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Modernism and professionalism in American architecture, 1919-1933
… assumptions: first, that by the 1900s, both the American Institute of Architects (AlA) and the numerous professional journals available to architects across the country solidified the profession nationally and yielded a coherent field within which practitioners could debate the content of their …
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Building a Continent: The Idea of Latin American Architecture in the Early Postwar
… and celebration of Latin America's modern architecture. Responsive to the war context and to the museum's engagement with the Office of the Coordinator of Inter American Affairs directed by Nelson Rockefeller, this exhibition presented a clear overlap between politics and modern …
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The African-American house as a vehicle of discovery for an African-American architecture
… to uncover evidence of a distinctly African-American architectural form. The primary building type observed will be the house, or the housing of African-Americans that was built by and for African-Americans. Because the greatest numbers of black people have resided in the southern United …
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Mixed culture : experienced through a center for the mind and body
… coexist. I identify myself and my culture as an American, but I was also raised with and practice certain traditional Korean customs which were passed down to me by family. I find that I am constantly moving between two states, where I identify with either of my two cultures, sometimes distinctly …
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Adaptive Reuse and Renovation: A Learning Center, Huntley Meadows Park And The Huntley Villa
… development. Sufficient research of historical American architecture is important to determine whether it has cultural or architectural significance. This thesis does not provide a solution to this problem of preserving architecture. It is a case study for preserving and reactivating Huntley …
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The Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow House of 1759: From Colonial America to the Colonial Revival and Beyond
… a cycle of Colonial Royalist mansions. After the American Revolution, however, the house quickly became a symbol of American patriotism. Occupants ranging from General George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow each added to the legacy of the house. Early in the nineteenth century, the …
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The Contract, the Contractor, and the Capitalization of American Building
… architects notwithstanding, modern American architecture was built by general contractors. This new type of builder was unknown to US Americans before the Civil War, but by the turn of the twentieth century they commanded a powerful position in the widening gulf between architects …
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"Art is a Hardy Plant:" : Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the cultivation of a transitional aesthetics
… Benjamin Henry Latrobe's engagement with American scientific discourses gave rise to a transitional aesthetics that radically refigured his European-derived notions of art and architecture. Looking at a range of works by Latrobe -- a selection of theoretical writings, the Essay on …
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The Rhode Island state house--the competition (1890-1892)
… which is a monument to the then new trend in American classicism which became popularized through the vehicle of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago. This building represents the ideals of the "City Beautiful", or "White City", movement which grew out of the influence of the …
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"Indigenous" -- "Vernacular" : negotiating an American history for modernism through the lens of the architectural exhibition
… historians and critics sought to legitimate American architecture through the construction of a linear ancestry which placed the beginnings of modernism in the nineteenth century, on American soil. Victorian-era revivalism complicated this thread, but it also served as the impetus for a …
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'Design with Nature and Culture': The Landscapes of George Erwin Patton
… from one another in midcentury landscape architecture. Despite the clear influence of Patton’s work on the urban fabric of Philadelphia, his designs have not received the recognition they deserve. Previous scholarship on Patton’s independent career is scarce and has only touched upon his …
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Approaching Fallingwater: An Ethography of Place
… tourist destination, "the best all-time work of American architecture," and a cultural symbol. By talking to some of the people involved in its history and by examining "autho-ethnographic" texts found within the community, I attempt to use ethnographic methods to understand a complicated site. …
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Sweet Briar, 1800-1900: Palladian Plantation House, Italianate Villa, Aesthetic Retreat
… fundamental motif of Palladianism in Virginia architecture, generating a line of offspring that proliferated in the eighteenth century and beyond. The Palladian plantation (Sweet Briar House I, c. 1800) featured this double portico. In 1851, following the return of the Fletcher children from an …