Badger's Illustrated Catalogue of Cast-iron Architecture

Badger's Illustrated Catalogue of Cast-iron Architecture
Author: Daniel D. Badger
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 162
Release: 1981
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Most extensive, most ambitious, most thoroughly documented primary source of cast-iron architecture in 19th-century America. An architectural classic! 102 plates.

Structural Iron and Steel, 1850-1900

Structural Iron and Steel, 1850-1900
Author: Robert Thorne
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2000
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

This volume covers the second great period of developments in iron construction from 1850, following its establishment as a structural material described in volume 9 of this series. Using the Crystal Palace of 1851 as a starting-point, the papers trace the history of iron-frame construction in Britain, France and America, and show its importance in fireproof construction, and in lattice truss and arch bridge design. A final group of papers illustrates the emergence of steel in framed buildings in both Britain and America. The selection brings out the important and daring contribution of individual engineers in their use of this material.

From Photography to 3D Models and Beyond: Visualizations in Archaeology

From Photography to 3D Models and Beyond: Visualizations in Archaeology
Author: Donald H. Sanders
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2023-12-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1803276193

This book explores the history of visual technology and archaeology and outlines how the introduction of interactive 3D computer modelling to the discipline parallels very closely the earlier integration of photography into archaeological fieldwork.

American Artists Engage the Built Environment, 1960-1979

American Artists Engage the Built Environment, 1960-1979
Author: Susanneh Bieber
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2023-07-31
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1000894800

This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960s—from minimal and pop art to land art, conceptual art, site-specific practices, and feminist art—in the context of contemporary architectural discourses. Susanneh Bieber analyzes the work of seven major artists, Donald Judd, Robert Grosvenor, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Smithson, Lawrence Weiner, Gordon Matta-Clark, and Mary Miss, who were closely associated with the formal-aesthetic innovations of the period. While these individual artists came to represent diverse movements, Bieber argues that all of them were attracted to the field of architecture—the work of architects, engineers, preservationists, landscape designers, and urban planners—because they believed these practices more directly shaped the social and material spaces of everyday life. This book’s contribution to the field of art history is thus twofold. First, it shows that the avant-garde of the long 1960s did not simply develop according to an internal logic of art but also as part of broader sociocultural discourses about buildings and cities. Second, it exemplifies a methodological synthesis between social art history and poststructural formalism that is foundational to understanding the role of art in the construction of a more just and egalitarian society. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, architecture, urbanism, and environmental humanism.

Cast Iron Architecture In America

Cast Iron Architecture In America
Author: Margot Gayle
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 294
Release: 1998-01-06
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780393730159

The first book on the life and work of 19th-century American inventor and entrepreneur James Bogardus, known for his unique grinding mill and other patented devices. However, his enduring claim to fame is his cast-iron structures, forerunners of the modern skyscraper. Modern interest in Bogardus stems from the historic preservation movement. His four surviving buildings in New York are recognized landmarks. Illustrated.