Historic Baton Rouge Architecture

Historic Baton Rouge Architecture
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Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages : 148
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ISBN-10 : 1455618098
ISBN-13 : 9781455618095
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Historic Baton Rouge Architecture by : Jim Fraiser

Tour significant Baton Rouge buildings without leaving home. Explore the state capital of Louisiana by paging through this wonderful book exhibiting Baton Rouge's grand, historic architecture. The beautiful homes and buildings of the city are exquisitely photographed here, inside and out. Historic residences, such as the Reymond House, and downtown landmarks, such as the old and new state capitol buildings, are also included in this detailed work that will be treasured for years to come.

Louisiana Architecture

Louisiana Architecture
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Publisher : University of Louisiana
Total Pages : 124
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105021927657
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Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Louisiana Architecture by : Jonathan Fricker

Introduction to architectural styles that have shaped Louisiana's landscapes.

Abandoned Baton Rouge

Abandoned Baton Rouge
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1635000742
ISBN-13 : 9781635000740
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis Abandoned Baton Rouge by : Colleen Kane

Series statement from publisher's website.

Louisiana Buildings, 1720–1940

Louisiana Buildings, 1720–1940
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Publisher : LSU Press
Total Pages : 456
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ISBN-10 : 0807120545
ISBN-13 : 9780807120545
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Louisiana Buildings, 1720–1940 by : Jessie Poesch

The only New Deal program to continue into the 1990s, the Historic American Buildings Survey has through the years drawn attention to the historical and artistic significance of buildings that contemporary taste might otherwise have ignored. Louisiana Buildings, 1720-1940 makes easily available the fruit of HABS's important and enduring efforts to record Louisiana's architectural heritage. In the 1930s, the Louisiana HABS team concentrated on public edifices and grand plantation complexes threatened by destruction. Later records of HABS include still other habitations of the common man as well as industrial structures. The project has yielded not only graphic and written documentation of the buildings, many no longer standing, but also new insights into the history of the state's architecture. An invaluable part of Louisiana Buildings, 1720-1940 is the alphabetical listing of HABS structures in Louisiana both by familiar name and by parish. The listing by parish gives the location, the date of construction, the architect when known, and the current status of each building. It also presents drawings or photographs of many of the structures, over 300 pictures in all. There are, besides, nine chapters by leading architectural historians, who cover all aspects of Louisiana architecture: its Creole beginnings in the south of the state; the Appalachian folk style in the north; and developments on the plantation, in the seventeenth-century urban setting, and in the modern era. Those chapters form an essential frame of reference for the data in the HABS listings and call attention to many other structures that are a part of the history of building in the Pelican State. Anyone interested in the state's architecture or history will find Louisiana Buildings indispensable.

A. Hays Town and the Architectural Image of Louisiana

A. Hays Town and the Architectural Image of Louisiana
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Total Pages : 200
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ISBN-10 : 1946160814
ISBN-13 : 9781946160812
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis A. Hays Town and the Architectural Image of Louisiana by : Carol McMichael Reese

Featuring color photography by Philip Gould and architectural drawings, A. Hays Town and the Architectural Image of Louisiana by Carol McMichael Reese traces the evolution of Town's career, including his work on the Historic American Buildings Survey, his award-winning Modernist designs, and his later houses that came to define Louisiana's residential architecture. This work accompanies an exhibition that originated at the Hilliard Art Museum - University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2018 and has since traveled to additional venues.

Historic Baton Rouge

Historic Baton Rouge
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Publisher : Community Heritage
Total Pages : 84
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ISBN-10 : 1935377493
ISBN-13 : 9781935377498
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Historic Baton Rouge by : Sylvia Frank Rodrigue

"Commissioned by the Foundation for Historical Louisiana."

The Architecture of LSU

The Architecture of LSU
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0807149764
ISBN-13 : 9780807149768
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis The Architecture of LSU by : John Michael Desmond

The core of the LSU campus is an example of what we can do when we set our sights high. It stands out today as one of the most successful and inspiring examples in the state, one meant by its architect to become an intuitive course in architecture for the students, spreading the influence of its ideals and inspirations across the highlands and lowlands of Louisiana. from The Architecture of LSU When viewed from the technical vantage point of an architect, the discerning eye of an artist, or sociocultural perspective of a historian, the remarkable buildings of Louisiana State University reveal not only a legacy that goes back to the Renaissance, but also a primer of architectural principles that guided the creation of one of the most distinctive academic environments in the United States. Author, professor, and architect J. Michael Desmond traces the university s development from its origins in Pineville, Louisiana, before the Civil War, through its two downtown Baton Rouge locations, to its move to the Williams Gartness Plantation south of the city in the 1920s. The layout of the present campus began with the picturesque vision of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. The German-born architect Theodore Link developed and reinterpreted the Olmsted campus plan, producing designs for fourteen of the nineteen core campus buildings. After his untimely death in 1923, the New Orleans firm of Wogan & Bernard completed the buildings in Link s masterplan, which in their formal symmetry and fine classical details reflect the influence of sixteenth-century architect Andrea Palladio. Explosive growth during the 1930s and the impact of the automobile demanded an expansion beyond the campus core. The firm of Weiss, Dreyfous & Seiferth took over as campus architects in 1932, and Baton Rouge landscaper Steele Burden oversaw the live oak plantings for which the LSU campus is now renowned. The essential structure of the campus and its landscape was in place by the time the United States entered World War II. The Architecture of LSU includes a wealth of photographs, plans, drawings, and maps that underscore the contributions of key historical figures and the genealogies of the campus s architecture and planning. By meticulously tracing the origins and evolution of LSU s architectural core and exploring the wider scope of American college campus design, Desmond shows the far-reaching rewards of public environments that integrate natural and constructed elements to meet both practical and aesthetic goals.

Architecture of the Old South

Architecture of the Old South
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 380
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015038180934
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Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis Architecture of the Old South by : Mills Lane

From Bauhaus to Ecohouse

From Bauhaus to Ecohouse
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Publisher : LSU Press
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9780807136508
ISBN-13 : 0807136506
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis From Bauhaus to Ecohouse by : Peder Anker

Debates about environmentally sensitive architecture have been ongoing for nearly a century. From Bauhaus to Eco-House examines key moments of inspiration and exchange between designers and ecologists from the Bauhaus projects of the interwar period to the eco-arks of the late 1980s. From Bauhaus to Eco-House provides new insight into a critical period in the evolution of environmental awareness and design.

Robert W. Tebbs, Photographer to Architects

Robert W. Tebbs, Photographer to Architects
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Publisher : LSU Press
Total Pages : 623
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ISBN-10 : 9780807142202
ISBN-13 : 0807142204
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis Robert W. Tebbs, Photographer to Architects by : Richard Anthony Lewis

One of the finest architectural photographers in America, Robert W. Tebbs produced the first photographic survey of Louisiana's plantations in 1926. From those images, now housed in the Louisiana State Museum, and not widely available until now, 119 plates showcasing fifty-two homes are featured here. Richard Anthony Lewis explores Tebbs's life and career, situating his work along the line of plantation imagery from nineteenth-century woodcuts and paintings to later twentieth-century photographs by John Clarence Laughlin, among others. Providing the family lineage and construction history of each home, Lewis discusses photographic techniques Tebbs used in his alternating panoramic and detail views. A precise documentarian, Tebbs also reveals a poetic sensibility in the plantation photos. His frequent emphasis on aspects of decay, neglect, incompleteness, and loss lends a wistful aura to many of the images -- an effect compounded by the fact that many of the homes no longer exist. This noticeable vacillation between objectivity and sentiment, Lewis shows, suggests unfamiliarity and even discomfort with the legacy of slavery. Poised on the brink of social and political reforms, Louisiana in the mid-1920s had made significant strides away from the slave-based agricultural economy that the plantation house often symbolized. Tebbs's Louisiana plantation photographs capture a literal and cultural past, reflecting a burgeoning national awareness of historic preservation and presenting plantations to us anew. Select plantations included: Ashland/Belle Helene, Avery Island, Belle Chasse, Belmont, Butler-Greenwood, L'Hermitage, Oak Alley, Parlange, René Beauregard House, Rosedown, Seven Oaks, Shadows-on-the-Teche, The Shades, and Waverly.