Friday Finds: Summer and Holiday Rentals
Sommer und Ferienhäuser aus dem Wettbewerb der Woche: 10 Sonderheft der Woche. Berlin: August Scherl, 1907. This work contains 60 designs submitted for the Summer and Holiday House competition of 1907....
View ArticleFriday Finds: Source Books for Woodwork and Terra Cotta
Each of the following companies presents their products differently, both visually and textually, which led me to speculate about the intended audiences. Universal Catalogue Bureau. Universal Millwork...
View ArticleFriday Finds: Treatises on Housing, 1935
Today, I actually went into Special Collections with the intention to write on garden houses but came out with something a bit different- working class and low income housing. Both Working-class...
View ArticleFriday Finds: So Many Finds!
Since I have not been able to post the last two Fridays, I am over sharing today! There is no theme that connects my selections- just things that struck my fancy. As I have noted before, I rely on...
View ArticleFriday Finds: Bungalows
Cover This week I ended up in a section on Bungalows. I thought we might explore the diversity of examples and definitions provided by the various publications. Starting with the definition provided...
View ArticleFriday Finds: Store Fronts
Hannah Stamier recently blogged about the Bon Marché and Émile Zola on ARTstor’s blog, highlighting images from their collection- which I remembered when I happened across some books on a similar...
View ArticleFriday Finds: Charleston
Smith, Charles W. Old Charleston: Twenty-Four Woodcuts. With an Introduction by Herbert Ravenel Sass. Richmond, VA: The Dale Press, 1933. I selected Old Charleston, because the book cover was visually...
View ArticleFriday Finds: Town Planning, Durham & Knutsford
Sharp, Thomas. Cathedral City: A Plan for Durham. London: Pub. for the Durham City Council by the Architectural Press, [1945]. Thomas Sharp examines the challenges of and provides solutions for...
View ArticleFriday Finds: Exeter Phoenix
Sharp, Thomas. Exeter Phoenix: A Plan for Rebuilding. London: Published for the Exeter City Council by the Architectural Press, 1946. Last week I encountered Thomas Sharp through his work, Cathedral...
View ArticleNew Books in Special Collections
The Florence Ralston Brooke Fund for Library Books enabled the Architecture and Planning Library to purchase several new works for Special Collections. The books were selected in collaboration with...
View ArticleFriday Finds: S. J. Hare
Hughes, John Arthur. Garden Architecture and Landscape Gardening Illustrating the Architectural Embellishment of Gardens, with Remarks on Landscape Gardening in its Relation to Architecture, by John...
View ArticleFriday Finds: Historic Views
This week I selected two books from Special Collections for their use as historical documents of the built environment. Fifth Avenue, New York, From Start to Finish: Both Sides of 5th Ave., 1911. New...
View ArticleFriday Finds: Freehand Drawing
Guptill, Arthur L. Freehand Drawing Self-Taught with Emphasis on the Techniques of Different Media. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1933. Our copy of this work belonged to Professor Owen Cappleman,...
View ArticleFriday Finds: Emily Brontë
Brontë, Emily. Two Poems: Love’s Rebuke and Remembrance. With the Gondals Background of her Poems and Novel by Fannie Elizabeth Ratchford. Austin, Texas: Charles E. Martin, Jr.- Von Boeckmann-Jones...
View ArticleFriday Finds: Fireplaces
For the past couple of weeks, I have been contemplating the transmission of ideas as it relates to architecture. While browsing Special Collections, I found several books on fireplaces – two catalogs,...
View ArticleSouthern Architect and Building News: Update
In the summer of 2010, Amanda Keyes blogged about the journal Southern Architect and Building News housed in APL’s Special Collections (for reference: Architectural Drawing, Now and Then). I wanted...
View ArticleFriday Finds: Built in USA
Museum of Modern Art. Built in USA since 1932. Edited by Elizabeth Mock. Forward by Philip F. Goodwin. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1945. Museum of Modern Art. In USA Erbaut, 1932-1944. Edited by...
View ArticleFriday Finds: Grotesque Architecture or Rural Amusement
Wrighte, William. Grotesque Architecture; or, Rural Amusement: Consisting of Plans, Elevations, and Sections, for Huts, Retreats, Summer and Winter Hermitages, Terminaries, Chinese, Baths, Mosques,...
View ArticleFriday Finds: Domestic Architecture
North American Construction Company. Aladdin Homes. Bay City, Mich. : The Company, [1916]. Special Collections houses catalog no. 28 (1916) from Aladdin Homes. The catalog offered “Readi-Cut Houses” in...
View ArticleFriday Finds: The Books of a Thousand Homes vol. 1
Smith, Henry Atterbury, ed. The Books of a Thousand Homes. vol. 1. New York : Home Owners Service Institute, 1927. Front Cover While doing a little bit of research on our collection, I came across...
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