THE ARCHITECTURE OF BALTIMORE: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY

Hayward, Mary Ellen; Shivers, Frank R. Jr.; Howland, Richard Hubbard; Alexander, Robert L.; Brugger, Robert J.; Dorsey, John; Duff, Charles B., Jr.; Gunts, Edward; Harwood, Herbert H., Jr.; Stanton, Phoebe B.; Weeks, Christopher

ISBN 10: 0801878063 / ISBN 13: 9780801878060

Edité par The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2004

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Inscribed first printing of this comprehensive work on the architecture of Baltimore, from its establishment as a British settlement to the early 21st century. An important history of Charm City building design. Uncommon signed. 11'' x 8''. Original dark orange cloth boards. Original unclipped (no price) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in black and white. 398 pages, including index. Warmly inscribed by both Hayward and Shivers on title page to a local architect: "Dedicated to Stephanie and Andre with great expectations of a happy journey through our town. Frank R. Shivers (one of the worker bees making this book)," and below: "To Andre, It is nice to find someone so dedicated to architecture and historic architecture. I bless your efforts and your continued work in our field. All the best, Mary Ellen Hayward." Two color pictorial Baltimore tourist attraction tri-fold leaflets loosely laid in. Jacket with light edgewear and rubbing, price sticker to rear. Binding with a touch of edgewear. Tight. Fine in very good plus dust jacket.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: THE ARCHITECTURE OF BALTIMORE: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY
• Éditeur: The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
• Date de parution: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0801878063
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780801878060
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: First edition.
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Signé: Signé par l'auteur
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Architecture & Design

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Synopsis

Winner of The 2004 Baltimore Book Festival Mayor's Award of Literary Excellence for Non-Fiction and a 2005 Heritage Book Award given by the Maryland Historical Trust

From its trademark row houses to Benjamin Henry Latrobe's landmark Cathedral (now Basilica) of the Assumption, Baltimore architecture can rightly claim to be as eclectic, exciting, and inspiring as that of any American city. Many of its important buildings figure prominently in the oeuvres of leading American architects: Latrobe, Robert Mills, Maximilien Godefroy, Richard Upjohn, Stanford White, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe among them. Yet Baltimore's distinctive urban environment also owes much to the achievements of local talents, including Robert Cary Long Sr. and Jr., John Rudolph Niernsee and James Crawford Neilson, E. Francis Baldwin and Josias Pennington, Laurence Hall Fowler, Alexander Cochran--not to mention generations of skilled craftsmen and builders.

Baltimore's architecture rewards close study, and in The Architecture of Baltimore contributors and editors Mary Ellen Hayward and Frank R. Shivers, Jr., have brought together an impressive group of scholars, writers, and critics to provide a fresh account of the city's architectural history. The narrative begins by looking at eighteenth-century Georgian buildings that reflect the grandeur of the style, goes on to the prosperous port city's Federal-period achievements, including many country houses with their delicate details, then proceeds to Baltimore's monumental contributions to early nineteenth-century American neoclassical design. Romantic stylings follow, with excursions into the Greek and Gothic Revivals, and the popular Italianate-mode for town and country houses, the soaring spires of churches, and the classical dignity of public spaces like the Peabody Library. Later in the nineteenth century a picturesque eclecticism produced such monuments as the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's Mount Royal Station, as well as intriguing changes to the city's versatile row houses. Contributors discuss the evolution of industrial buildings and the growth of the city's architectural profession. The Architecture of Baltimore also addresses the arrival of modernism in Charm City, examines the origins and challenges of historic preservation, and assesses the Baltimore renaissance of the period 1955-2000, which saw the construction of Charles Center, Harborplace, and the sports complex at Camden Yards.

Here at last we have a comprehensive guide to Baltimore's architectural heritage--lost and still-standing alike. Illustrated with nearly 600 photographs, architectural plans, maps, and details, this impressive work of scholarship also offers an engaging narrative of the history of Baltimore itself--its men and women of all stations, its taste and traditional preferences, its good choices and lamentable ones, and its built environment as a social and cultural chronicle.

À propos des auteurs

Mary Ellen Hayward is an architectural historian and museum consultant who has worked on a number of projects sponsored by the Maryland Historical Trust and the Maryland Humanities Council. She is coauthor of The Baltimore Rowhouse and coeditor of The Architecture of Baltimore: An Illustrated History, also published by Johns Hopkins.

Winner of the Baltimore City Historical Society 2003 History Honor, Frank Remer Shivers, Jr., has taught in adult education programs at the Johns Hopkins University, where he was named "Teacher of the Year." He is coauthor of The Architecture of Baltimore: An Illustrated History and author of Maryland Wits & Baltimore Bards: A Literary History with Notes on Washington Writers and Walking in Baltimore: An Intimate Guide to the Old City, all published by Johns Hopkins.