Bricks and Brownstone - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bricks and Brownstone write by Charles Lockwood. This book was released on 2003. Bricks and Brownstone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bricks and Brownstone: The New York Rowhouse 1783?1929 was first published in 1972, and remains the only book ever written on the New York row house. It has been met with impressive critical praise ever since and Rizzoli is proud to publish this revised and updated edition as the introductory volume in the new Rizzoli Classics program, dedicated to keeping in print important architecture titles. Charles Lockwood looks at different architecture styles of the New York row house. The book is comprehensive, examining the history of New York's changing neighborhoods and the history of the various row house architectural styles--the Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, and Second Empire, as well as the eclectic but picturesque styles of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The text and illustrations also delve into the architectural details, paying meticulous attention to all features, including doorways, glass, mantels, staircases, ceiling ornaments, and ironwork. Twenty years later, this edition is updated to include specially commissioned new color photographs of interiors and exteriors of some of New York's most impressive homes. Also included is Best of the Brownstones Walking Tours, carefully detailed and illustrated with color photographs.
The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn
The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn write by Suleiman Osman. This book was released on 2011-03-09. The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Considered one of the city's most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by the 1980s had become a post-industrial landscape of hip bars, yoga studios, and beautifully renovated, wildly expensive townhouses. In The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn, Suleiman Osman offers a groundbreaking history of this unexpected transformation. Challenging the conventional wisdom that New York City's renaissance started in the 1990s, Osman locates the origins of gentrification in Brooklyn in the cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s. Gentrification began as a grassroots movement led by young and idealistic white college graduates searching for "authenticity" and life outside the burgeoning suburbs. Where postwar city leaders championed slum clearance and modern architecture, "brownstoners" (as they called themselves) fought for a new romantic urban ideal that celebrated historic buildings, industrial lofts and traditional ethnic neighborhoods as a refuge from an increasingly technocratic society. Osman examines the emergence of a "slow-growth" progressive coalition as brownstoners joined with poorer residents to battle city planners and local machine politicians. But as brownstoners migrated into poorer areas, race and class tensions emerged, and by the 1980s, as newspapers parodied yuppies and anti-gentrification activists marched through increasingly expensive neighborhoods, brownstoners debated whether their search for authenticity had been a success or failure.
Restoring a House in the City
Restoring a House in the City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Restoring a House in the City write by Ingrid Abramovitch. This book was released on 2009-10-22. Restoring a House in the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How to turn an old home into a jewel on the block. What do a fashion mogul, a Williams-Sonoma executive, a museum curator, and a design-savvy actress have in common? Good taste, of course, but more than that: a shared passion to "bring back," to carefully restore and artfully embellish, their houses. They are among the twenty-one real-life renovations featured in this essential resource—from stately town houses to brownstone fixer-uppers—to give the true experience of creating an urban oasis on any street. Whether hunting for rare chandeliers, salvaging floorboards for new tabletops, or removing walls to let more light in, all the nuts and bolts of restoration are here. In Boston, a young family's renovation takes three years and includes every modern amenity (a media room, home gym, elevator), but saves most of the original interiors (window shutters and seats, marble fireplaces). A Baltimore couple—both stars of the graphic design world—must reconcile their cutting-edge tastes with their traditional surrounds. From furniture and color to rooftops and terraces, Restoring a House in the City offers a treasury of inspiration and ideas, as well as a lavish illustrated tour of some of the best done renovations in the business.
An Architectural Guidebook to Brooklyn
An Architectural Guidebook to Brooklyn - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Architectural Guidebook to Brooklyn write by Francis Morrone. This book was released on 2001. An Architectural Guidebook to Brooklyn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Brown Girl, Brownstones
Brown Girl, Brownstones - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brown Girl, Brownstones write by Paule Marshall. This book was released on 2012-03-06. Brown Girl, Brownstones available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Set in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II, this 1953 coming-of-age novel centers on the daughter of Barbadian immigrants. "Passionate, compelling." — Saturday Review. "Remarkable for its courage." — The New Yorker.
