craig lois staff federal architecture (8 résultats)

Etat : Very Good. First Edition. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Etat : Very Good. First Edition. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Softbound. Etat : VG. Color illustrated wraps. 580 pp., over 900 illustrations. "If we are what we build, then this book, with its nine hundred photographs and drawings, is not only a major pictorial resource for the architectural historian, but a sort of American album, a scrapbook of a special aspect of our cultural history.".

28.0 x 21.5cms 580pp b/w illusts very good hardback with very good- dustwrapper The sections are: beginnings: American temples & needful buildings; the search for order; the embellishmentr of pride; the aggrandisement of power; starved classicism; the legacies of crisis; the most gigantic business on earth.

Hardcover. 4to. Some sunning and several small tears to dj, a touch of sunning to covers, o/wise good condition. B/W photos & illus. 580pp. ISBN 0262030578. 29325.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First edition. Quarto. 580pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Cocked spine with faint toning else very good in a very good price-clipped dustwrapper with a previous owner gift inscription, a spine faded, tape repairs, and short tears.

Hardcover. Etat : Good.

Hardcover. Etat : Very good. Etat de la jaquette : Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. The format is approximately 8.75 inches by 11.25 inches. Bibliography. Illustrations Sources. Index. Illustrated dust jacket. The dust jacket is in a plastic sleeve. Name of previous owner and date on fep. Foreword by Nancy Hanks. Introduction by Bill N. Lacy. The contents include Prologue; Beginnings: "A Model.Scientifically Chaste"; American Temples and Needful Buildings; The Search for Order; The Embellishment of Pride: The Aggrandizement of Power; Starved Classicism, The Legacy of Crisis; The Most Gigantic Business on Earth; and Epilogue. Lois Craig was an associate dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT in the 1980s and early 1990s. A trusted and valued adviser to many architecture students and graduates during her years at MIT, Craig was respected for her intellectual contributions to her field as much as for her understanding of administrative issues. Before coming to MIT in 1978, Craig was director of the Federal Architecture Project at the National Endowment for the Arts, the U.S. government's effort to improve federal building programs. In that pioneering role she contributed to the development of new designer-selection procedures, new legislation governing public building and the first comprehensive history of federal government architecture. The Federal Presence: Architecture, Politics and National Design developed with the staff of the Federal Architecture Project. She had served with for the National Urban Coalition interpreting the impact of legislation, court decision, government programs and local initiatives on land use and housing opportunities. Derived from a Kirkus review: Frontier forts, lighthouses, polar research stations, and penitentiaries--right along with traditional places of government business--have broadcast the presence of (by 1912) "the largest builder of buildings ever known in the world"; and this first attempt to take the full measure of federal building activities is consequently a multifaceted, multi-use volume, as well as an oblique slice of American history. Perusing (as one would an exhibit) its 500 large pages, one sees official Washington take shape by fits and starts (delayed, early on, by a tendency to ignore the central government) and witnesses, via parallel columns of quotes, the sharp contention over each proposed addition. Thus, sculptor Horatio Greenough, a premature functionalist, likens the public building in the guise of a Greek temple to "the crippled gelding of a hackney coach" and, faced with the brooding Norman-castle Smithsonian, quips, "Is no coup d'Atat lurking there?" Still, the styles march on, from the original Jeffersonian "congruence of Republican virtues and Roman forms" (aped, ironically, by Napoleon) to the gaunt, noncommital "starved classicism" of the 1920s and '30s when the federal presence was conveyed merely by a white-sheathed box with columns. To the extent that the book has a theme, it is a protest against such empty, monotonous, distancing monumentality--as in the final sequence of vacant courtyards and corridors, contrasted with the previous run of 1960s mass rallies. But one encounters, no less, buildings serving a host of felt needs, changing with time and circumstance (hospitals for merchant seamen preceded those for military veterans because of the hard-held bias against standing armies) and proliferating, finally, under the New Deal, when a list of PWA projects alone includes a hundred types. On display are the varied achievements of the Park Service; experiments in urban housing and rural resettlement; wide-impact dams and power stations; flag-waving embassies and exposition halls--with some comment on the architectural and social implications of each. A wellmade book in every respect, and, most surprisingly, an adventure.