A Guide to the Architecture of Minnesota

A Guide to the Architecture of Minnesota
Author: David Gebhard
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 494
Release: 1978
Genre:
ISBN: 9781452901015

Traces Minnesota's architectural development in eight regions of the state from territorial days to the present and outlines tours of the state's landmarks. A perfect companion for sight-seeing trips.

AIA Guide to the Twin Cities

AIA Guide to the Twin Cities
Author: Larry Millett
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Total Pages: 694
Release: 2007
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780873515405

Get ready to discover the great architectural mecca that is Minneapolis and St. Paul. The first comprehensive, illustrated handbook of its kind, AIA Guide to the Twin Cities is the ultimate source to the architectural riches of the metropolitan area. Organized by neighborhood and featuring a wealth of sites--from the highest point on the Minneapolis skyline to the modest St. Paul bungalow vibrant with historical and architectural significance--this invaluable reference has it all: -Illuminating entries for more than 3,000 buildings -Behind-the-scenes details of the structures and their architects -Lively information about local history and regional styles -Highlights of important buildings nearly lost in time -Sixty easy-to-read maps that pinpoint the location of every structure -Dozens of planned walking and driving tours -Over 1,000 photos that illustrate significant buildings and features Retired Pioneer Press architecture critic Larry Millett has spent more than two decades researching and exploring the architectural heritage of the Twin Cities. Millett's AIA Guide to the Twin Cities is your ticket to the best tour in town. Sponsored in part by the American Institute of Architects Minnesota. Larry Millett has written extensively about Twin Cities architecture. His books include Lost Twin Cities, Twin Cities Then and Now, and Strange Days, Dangerous Nights (all MHS Press), as well as a series of mystery novels featuring Sherlock Holmes.

Elizabeth Scheu Close

Elizabeth Scheu Close
Author: Jane King Hession
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2020
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781517908577

"Elizabeth "Lisl" Scheu Close (1912-2011) was the first female modern architect in Minnesota. Over her 60-year career, she designed more than 150 residences in the state, which were stylistically rooted in Austrian and other European modern movements of the 1920s and 30s. The work of architect Adolf Loos was a primary influence -Close grew up in the 1912 Loos-designed Scheu House, a seminal early modern house in Vienna, Austria. In 1938 with her husband Winston Close, she cofounded the first practice in Minnesota dedicated to modern architecture. The book traces Lisl's life, education, and career from pre-World War I Vienna, to MIT, to Minnesota. Lisl was in the vanguard of professionally-trained women architects. Not only was she perceived as a "woman in a man's field" when she launched her career, she was also committed to a design aesthetic then not widely adopted by the public or the profession. Modernism, to Lisl, meant the design of buildings that "fit the modern style of living," or those that were practical, efficient, durable, and of their time"--

Minnesota Architects

Minnesota Architects
Author: Alan K. Lathrop
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780816644636

More than 250 biographies of architects who were born or worked for a significant time in Minnesota, featuring the architect's era of work, educational and professional experience, and descriptions of his or her most notable buildings.

Salmela Architect

Salmela Architect
Author:
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2005
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0816642567

Lost Twin Cities

Lost Twin Cities
Author: Larry Millett
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Total Pages: 351
Release: 1992
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0873512731

1993 American Institute of Architects International Architecture Book Award

The Architecture of Edwin Lundie

The Architecture of Edwin Lundie
Author: Dale Mulfinger
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1995
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Throughout a fifty-year career in St. Paul, architect Edwin H. Lundie (1886-1972) designed more than three hundred projects, predominantly residences. His architectural designs, along with the Prairie School inventions of Purcell and Elmslie and the modernist themes of Ralph Rapson, are collectively considered the best work of Minnesota architects in the 20th century. What set Lundie apart from his colleagues was his devotion to detail and love of fine craftsmanship. This book documents Lundie's architecture through color photography, plan graphics, and his drawings and renderings.