Venice, the city and its architecture

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David Lowe

These dazzling, poignant pages recreate the magical built environment that thrilled generations of Chicago residents and visitors alike before falling victim to the wrecking ball of "progress." Here are the grand residences and hotels, opulent theaters, legendary trains, and state-of-the-art office buildings and department stores-including the world's first skyscraper. Here too are the famous convention halls, parks, and racetracks of a great American city whose architectural treasures have been, and continue to be, recklessly squandered. Rare photographs and prints, many of them published here for the first time, document the transformative architectural achievements of such giants as Dankmar Adler, Louis Sullivan, John Wellburn Root, Daniel Burnham, William Holabird, and Frank Lloyd Wright. But this remarkable book is much more than a portfolio of now-vanished buildings; within its pages are evocative thumbnail sketches of scores of Chicago personalities, from the world-famous (Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Dreiser, Clarence Darrow, Ben Hecht, Jane Addams, Cyrus McCormick, George Pullman, and Gustavus Swift, to name just a few) to the locally notorious.

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Nelson B. Wadsworth

History of photography in Utah Territory, focused on the settlement of Salt Lake City and the construction of the Salt Lake Temple over 40 years.

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[concept, tekst en radactie, Dick van Wageningen

Dit boek biedt het fascinerende verhaal van de bouw van een museum voor de militaire geschiedenis van Nederland, met collectiestukken van eremedailles tot transportvliegtuigen. Die geschiedenis wordt verteld aan de hand van de hoogtepunten uit de collectie, in een virtuele rondgang door het nieuwe museum met aandacht voor het gebouw van Felix Claus Dick van Wageningen architecten, de inrichting door Kossmann.dejong, de landschapsinrichting door H+N+S Landschapsarchitecten, en de vele bijzondere topstukken die het verhaal vertellen van de Nederlandse militaire geschiedenis. De locatie van het Nationaal Militair Museum kent een bewogen geschiedenis. In 1913 werd door het Ministerie van Oorlog aangekochte vliegkamp Soesterberg aangekocht, de bakermat van de Nederlandse luchtmacht. Op 12 november 2008 nam de Koninklijke Luchtmacht afscheid van haar geboortegrond en sloot de vliegbasis haar poorten, om in 2014 weer geopend te worden als Park Vliegbasis Soesterberg en Nationaal Militair Museum. Het boek vertelt het verhaal van de bouw van dit spectaculaire museum, maar biedt ook een toegankelijk overzicht van de topstukken uit de collectie.

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Ellen Beasley and Stephen Fox

The Galveston Architecture Guidebook includes the city's imposing business blocks, institutional buildings, and houses, both large and small. Conceived in the nineteenth-century, Galveston's town plan was highly sophisticated reflecting the city's role as a major Southern port from the end of the Civil War to the turn of the 20th century. The guidebook also addresses more recent architectural episodes, such as the growth of the city's highly acclaimed medical center, the development of its neighborhoods, and the evolution of its beach front. Each entry in the guidebook includes a photograph, an identifying number keyed to a tour map, as well as historical, descriptive, and critical commentary. Also included are several appendices for easy reference: an illustrated building typology, and architectural glossary, and a selected bibliography. The Galveston Architecture Guidebook will be invaluable to all those who visit Galveston. Historic preservationists, scholars of nineteenth-century material culture, architects, and historians will be fascinated by the broad range of buildings and urban conditions it documents. Finally, anyone interested in Galveston or the Gulf Coast will find in this book a wealth of information.