GT KANSAS ARCHITECTURE

Sachs, David; Erlich, George

ISBN 10: 0700607781 / ISBN 13: 9780700607785

Edité par UNIV PR OF KANSAS, 1996

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Neuware - From Victorian masterpieces and stately courthouses to split-level suburban homes, this useful guide provides descriptions, construction dates, architects, historical background, and unusual traits for 700 structures spread throughout all 105 counties of Kansas -- and includes maps and addresses to make them easy to find.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: GT KANSAS ARCHITECTURE
• Éditeur: UNIV PR OF KANSAS
• Date de parution: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0700607781
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780700607785
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 236 L x 156 H x 23 P (en millimètres) 236 millimètres de largeur par 156 millimètres de hauteur par 23 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 576 grammes

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Synopsis

Some were designed in elaborate styles bearing elegant names--Beaux-Arts, French Renaissance, Art Deco. Others were humbly handcrafted from easily accessible materials--wood, stone, and sod. But whether courtly, colloquial, capricious, or curious, each of the state's architectural configurations has become an aesthetic slice of Kansas.

In Guide to Kansas Architecture, David Sachs and George Ehrlich spotlight hundreds of these surprisingly diverse homes, businesses, schools, churches, courthouses, theaters, bridges, and barns spread throughout all 105 counties. Encompassing the historical and contemporary, the vernacular and singular, this book features Victorian masterpieces, stately courthouses, and split-level suburban homes alongside the likes of "the world's most beautiful gas station" and Big Brutus, the enormous electric coal shovel turned museum.

Illustrating where, how, and why Kansans assembled and altered their physical surroundings, the authors have amassed information on 700 structures--including descriptions, construction dates, architects, historical background, and unusual traits. They also provide maps and addresses to make them easy to find.

This one-of-a-kind guide for Kansas underscores architecture's bond with the state's artistic, cultural, historical, social, political, and economic attributes and idiosyncrasies. As a handy reference and traveling companion, it will be invaluable to the well-versed architect, preservationist, or historian, as well as to the merely inquisitive and adventurous.