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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
0801859867
ISBN-13
9780801859861
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1817223
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
1904 Pages
Publication Name
Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Subject
Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, General, History / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Art, Political Science, Architecture
Series
Creating the North American Landscape Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
194 Oz
Item Length
11 in
Item Width
8.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
00-011535
Reviews
Nothing on this scale for North American design has ever before been attempted... Spanning three centuries, from Jean Ribault's 1562 attempt to establish permanent settlement on Parris Island, South Carolina, to the 1867 formation of the Dominion of Canada, these volumes constitute the most detailed yet comprehensive account of what North Americans (including Indians and African Americans) built -- firmly anchored in design history, social and political context, and environmental influences -- that we are ever likely to have., This magnum opus documents in impressive detail the builders and planners of colonial towns and cities of Canada and the United States and the architecture of those places. With a thorough grasp of the political and economic context of urban from, Kornwolf organizes the material by influence... Original and important scholarship abounds... Highly informative graphic figures illustrate town plans, floor plans, and historic views... This is very likely the most informative source on colonial architecture of North America in print., "This magnum opus documents in impressive detail the builders and planners of colonial towns and cities of Canada and the United States and the architecture of those places. With a thorough grasp of the political and economic context of urban from, Kornwolf organizes the material by influence... Original and important scholarship abounds... Highly informative graphic figures illustrate town plans, floor plans, and historic views... This is very likely the most informative source on colonial architecture of North America in print."-- Library Journal, 'A monument of scholarly publishing, this three-volume work is the first thorough history of its subject... Comprehensive and detailed, it examines -- in unusually brisk and intelligent prose, and with more than 4,000 aptly chosen illustrations -- the public and private buildings; the forts and harbors; the squares and greens; and the gardens and landscapes of the New World... A remarkable work of both art history and social history, these volumes keenly assess the aesthetic triumphs of town planning and landscape design... but they also reveal how structures and designs reflected North America's disparate cultural, environmental, and religious characteristics... Thank God for university presses; these beautiful books are of lasting importance.' -- Atlantic Monthly'This magnum opus documents in impressive detail the builders and planners of colonial towns and cities of Canada and the United States and the architecture of those places. With a thorough grasp of the political and economic context of urban from, Kornwolf organizes the material by influence... Original and important scholarship abounds... Highly informative graphic figures illustrate town plans, floor plans, and historic views... This is very likely the most informative source on colonial architecture of North America in print.' -- Library Journal'A monumental survey... Historians and art historians will find much that is valuable... and come away awed at the audacious scale of the book... James Kornwolf embarked on a study that most other scholars would never have attempted. We will profit from his work for years to come.' -- J. Ritchie Garrison, Journal of American History'Nothing on this scale for North American design has ever before been attempted... Spanning three centuries, from Jean Ribault's 1562 attempt to establish permanent settlement on Parris Island, South Carolina, to the 1867 formation of the Dominion of Canada, these volumes constitute the most detailed yet comprehensive account of what North Americans (including Indians and African Americans) built -- firmly anchored in design history, social and political context, and environmental influences -- that we are ever likely to have.' -- Robert Twombly, Reviews in American History'In its comprehensiveness and in its incorporation of the half century of research since the appearance of the previous standard study of the subject, Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America establishes a new foundation for its field... Kornwolf's work provides a readable and authoritative overview of the present understanding of the past and will serve as the basis on which the next generation will construct the twenty-first century's view of the Colonial development of the North American landscape.' -- Dwight Shurko, Daily Press (Newport News, Virginia)'An extensively researched, detailed examination and thoughtful exposition of architecture, town planning, and landscape gardening in what are now the U.S. and Canada from the earliest 16th-century settlements to about 1820.' -- Choice'This is an impressive work that will contribute markedly to general understanding of the formation of cities and towns and their architecture. Utilizing a vast array of sources and the carefully orchestrated distillation of a broad universe of historical facts, this is a pioneering study in the field of early American architectural and general history.' -- Bryant Tolles, Professor of History and Art History and Director, Museum Studies Program, University of Delaware'I stand in awe of this monumental work. The greatest value of Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America is its wide scope which brings together valuable information about the architecture and landscape design and town planning of all regions of early America. It is an extraordinary accomplishment.' -- William M. S. Rasmussen, Lora M. Robins Curator of Art, Virginia Historical Society, A monument of scholarly publishing, this three-volume work is the first thorough history of its subject... Comprehensive and detailed, it examines -- in unusually brisk and intelligent prose, and with more than 4,000 aptly chosen illustrations -- the public and private buildings; the forts and harbors; the squares and greens; and the gardens and landscapes of the New World... A remarkable work of both art history and social history, these volumes keenly assess the aesthetic triumphs of town planning and landscape design... but they also reveal how structures and designs reflected North America's disparate cultural, environmental, and religious characteristics... Thank God for university presses; these beautiful books are of lasting importance., "A monumental survey... Historians and art historians will find much that is valuable... and come away awed at the audacious scale of the book... James Kornwolf embarked on a study that most other scholars would never have attempted. We will profit from his work for years to come."--J. Ritchie Garrison, Journal of American History, "A monument of scholarly publishing, this three-volume work is the first thorough history of its subject... Comprehensive and detailed, it examines -- in unusually brisk and intelligent prose, and with more than 4,000 aptly chosen illustrations -- the public and private buildings; the forts and harbors; the squares and greens; and the gardens and landscapes of the New World... A remarkable work of both art history and social history, these volumes keenly assess the aesthetic triumphs of town planning and landscape design... but they also reveal how structures and designs reflected North America's disparate cultural, environmental, and religious characteristics... Thank God for university presses; these beautiful books are of lasting importance."-- Atlantic Monthly, "An extensively researched, detailed examination and thoughtful exposition of architecture, town planning, and landscape gardening in what are now the U.S. and Canada from the earliest 16th-century settlements to about 1820." -- Choice, "An extensively researched, detailed examination and thoughtful exposition of architecture, town planning, and landscape gardening in what are now the U.S. and Canada from the earliest 16th-century settlements to about 1820... Highly recommended."-- Choice, A monumental survey... Historians and art historians will find much that is valuable... and come away awed at the audacious scale of the book... James Kornwolf embarked on a study that most other scholars would never have attempted. We will profit from his work for years to come., In its comprehensiveness and in its incorporation of the half century of research since the appearance of the previous standard study of the subject, Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America establishes a new foundation for its field... Kornwolf's work provides a readable and authoritative overview of the present understanding of the past and will serve as the basis on which the next generation will construct the twenty-first century's view of the Colonial development of the North American landscape., An extensively researched, detailed examination and thoughtful exposition of architecture, town planning, and landscape gardening in what are now the U.S. and Canada from the earliest 16th-century settlements to about 1820., "Nothing on this scale for North American design has ever before been attempted... Spanning three centuries, from Jean Ribault's 1562 attempt to establish permanent settlement on Parris Island, South Carolina, to the 1867 formation of the Dominion of Canada, these volumes constitute the most detailed yet comprehensive account of what North Americans (including Indians and African Americans) built -- firmly anchored in design history, social and political context, and environmental influences -- that we are ever likely to have."--Robert Twombly, Reviews in American History, "In its comprehensiveness and in its incorporation of the half century of research since the appearance of the previous standard study of the subject, Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America establishes a new foundation for its field... Kornwolf's work provides a readable and authoritative overview of the present understanding of the past and will serve as the basis on which the next generation will construct the twenty-first century's view of the Colonial development of the North American landscape."--Dwight Shurko, Daily Press (Newport News, Virginia)
Dewey Edition
21
Number of Volumes
3 vols.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
711/.4/09730903
Synopsis
An extraordinary work, unparalleled in its breadth and depth of detail, this three-volume set offers the first comprehensive history of architecture and town planning throughout colonial North America, from Russian Alaska to French Quebec, to Spanish Florida and California, to British, Dutch, and other settlements on the East Coast. Across this vast terrain, James Kornwolf conjures the outlines of the constructed environment as it emerged in settlements and communities, in structures and sites, and in the flourishes and idiosyncrasies of the families and individuals who erected and inhabited colonial buildings and towns. Here as never before readers can observe the impulses and principles of colonial design and planning as they are implemented in the buildings and streets, harbors and squares, gardens and landscapes of the New World. Incorporating more than 3,000 illustrations, Kornwolf's massive work conveys the full range of the colonial encounter with the continent's geography, from the high forms of architecture through formal landscape design and town planning. From these pages emerge the fine arts of environmental design, an understanding of the political and economic events that helped to determine settlement in North America, an appreciation of the various architectural and landscape forms that the settlers created, and an awareness of the diversity of the continent's geography and its peoples. Considering the humblest buildings along with the mansions of the wealthy and powerful, public buildings, forts, and churches, Kornwolf captures the true dynamism and diversity of colonial communities-their rivalries and frictions, their outlooks and attitudes-as they extended their hold on the land. His work conveys for the first time the full scale, from intimate to grand, of their enduring transformation of the natural landscape of North America., An extraordinary work, unparalleled in its breadth and depth of detail, this three-volume set offers the first comprehensive history of architecture and town planning throughout colonial North America, from Russian Alaska to French Quebec, to Spanish Florida and California, to British, Dutch, and other settlements on the East Coast. Across this ......, An extraordinary work, unparalleled in its breadth and depth of detail, this three-volume set offers the first comprehensive history of architecture and town planning throughout colonial North America, from Russian Alaska to French Quebec, to Spanish Florida and California, to British, Dutch, and other settlements on the East Coast. Across this vast terrain, James Kornwolf conjures the outlines of the constructed environment as it emerged in settlements and communities, in structures and sites, and in the flourishes and idiosyncrasies of the families and individuals who erected and inhabited colonial buildings and towns. Here as never before readers can observe the impulses and principles of colonial design and planning as they are implemented in the buildings and streets, harbors and squares, gardens and landscapes of the New World. Incorporating more than 3,000 illustrations, Kornwolf's massive work conveys the full range of the colonial encounter with the continent's geography, from the high forms of architecture through formal landscape design and town planning. From these pages emerge the fine arts of environmental design, an understanding of the political and economic events that helped to determine settlement in North America, an appreciation of the various architectural and landscape forms that the settlers created, and an awareness of the diversity of the continent's geography and its peoples. Considering the humblest buildings along with the mansions of the wealthy and powerful, public buildings, forts, and churches, Kornwolf captures the true dynamism and diversity of colonial communities -- their rivalries and frictions, their outlooks and attitudes -- as they extended their hold on the land. His work conveys for the first time the full scale, from intimate to grand, of their enduring transformation of the natural landscape of North America.
LC Classification Number
NA703.K67 2002
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