Author: Chris Wilson
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826317469
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Debunks the great tourist myth, and explains how the Santa Fe architectural and design style, so popular with millions of visitors today, was consciously created by Anglos in the early 20th century.
The Myth of Santa Fe
Author: Chris Wilson
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826317469
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Debunks the great tourist myth, and explains how the Santa Fe architectural and design style, so popular with millions of visitors today, was consciously created by Anglos in the early 20th century.
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826317469
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Debunks the great tourist myth, and explains how the Santa Fe architectural and design style, so popular with millions of visitors today, was consciously created by Anglos in the early 20th century.
All Aboard for Santa Fe
Author: Victoria E. Dye
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826336583
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
How the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company contributed to the development of Southwest tourism.
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826336583
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
How the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company contributed to the development of Southwest tourism.
Breakfast Santa Fe Style
Author: Kathy Barco
Publisher: Sunstone Press
ISBN: 0865345015
Category : Breakfasts
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and when in Santa Fe it's the best meal of the day. From breakfast burrito stands to leisurely weekend brunches, this book is the guide to the wide array of breakfast--Santa Fe style.
Publisher: Sunstone Press
ISBN: 0865345015
Category : Breakfasts
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and when in Santa Fe it's the best meal of the day. From breakfast burrito stands to leisurely weekend brunches, this book is the guide to the wide array of breakfast--Santa Fe style.
A Field Guide to the Vernacular Buildings of the San Antonio Area
Author: Brent Fortenberry
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623499127
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
The rich, multicultural heritage of San Antonio and the Texas Hill Country provide the backdrop for this first comprehensive guide to the culturally significant vernacular buildings of this diverse and historic region: structures designed and constructed by the people who used them rather than by professional architects or builders. A valuable, easy-to-use resource for heritage travelers, historic preservationists, and local historians, A Field Guide to the Vernacular Buildings of the San Antonio Area pairs incisive interpretive essays with detailed building descriptions, photographs, and architectural renderings. Featuring contributions from noted architectural historians and preservationists including Ken Hafertepe, Lewis Fisher, Maria Pfeiffer, and Sarah Z. Gould, this handy, generously illustrated guide will not only provide context and insight for understanding the importance of these buildings but will also engage readers with the challenges of preserving our cultural heritage as represented in the built environment. Professional and avocational preservationists, along with interested travelers and general readers, will appreciate the thorough discussion and analysis of such well-known sites as the San Antonio Riverwalk, the San Antonio missions, and the public buildings of the historic Westside district. Reaching beyond the immediate vicinity of San Antonio, the book also offers expert commentary on the German settlements in Central Texas and east of San Antonio, providing an inclusive and inviting survey of how settlers of various origins placed their unique imprints on Texas.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623499127
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
The rich, multicultural heritage of San Antonio and the Texas Hill Country provide the backdrop for this first comprehensive guide to the culturally significant vernacular buildings of this diverse and historic region: structures designed and constructed by the people who used them rather than by professional architects or builders. A valuable, easy-to-use resource for heritage travelers, historic preservationists, and local historians, A Field Guide to the Vernacular Buildings of the San Antonio Area pairs incisive interpretive essays with detailed building descriptions, photographs, and architectural renderings. Featuring contributions from noted architectural historians and preservationists including Ken Hafertepe, Lewis Fisher, Maria Pfeiffer, and Sarah Z. Gould, this handy, generously illustrated guide will not only provide context and insight for understanding the importance of these buildings but will also engage readers with the challenges of preserving our cultural heritage as represented in the built environment. Professional and avocational preservationists, along with interested travelers and general readers, will appreciate the thorough discussion and analysis of such well-known sites as the San Antonio Riverwalk, the San Antonio missions, and the public buildings of the historic Westside district. Reaching beyond the immediate vicinity of San Antonio, the book also offers expert commentary on the German settlements in Central Texas and east of San Antonio, providing an inclusive and inviting survey of how settlers of various origins placed their unique imprints on Texas.
The Spanish Redemption
Author: Charles Montgomery
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520229711
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
"The Spanish Redemption contributes an extremely important chapter to the burgeoning literature on the construction of whiteness in the United States, to our understanding of the shifting and complicated relationship between ethnicity and class, and a concrete example of how culture can be used to shape political and economic identities. With considerable dexterity and authority, with nuance and subtly, with newly utilized archival evidence, and with a glorious narrative flair, Montgomery fastidiously describes the racial politics that were played out through the cultural production of an imagined Spanish past."—Ramón Gutiérrez, author of When Jesus Came the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846, and co-editor of Contested Eden: California Before the Gold Rush "Between the two world wars, villagers in northern New Mexico became Spanish Americans rather than Mexican Americans, and artists, writers, and boosters celebrated their previously despised arts, crafts, architecture, foods, and folkways. With probing intelligence and graceful, limpid prose, Montgomery tells the remarkable story of this shift in regional identity and its disturbing and enduring consequences. The "quaint" Hispano villages of northern New Mexico will never look the same."—David J. Weber, author of The Spanish Frontier in North America
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520229711
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
"The Spanish Redemption contributes an extremely important chapter to the burgeoning literature on the construction of whiteness in the United States, to our understanding of the shifting and complicated relationship between ethnicity and class, and a concrete example of how culture can be used to shape political and economic identities. With considerable dexterity and authority, with nuance and subtly, with newly utilized archival evidence, and with a glorious narrative flair, Montgomery fastidiously describes the racial politics that were played out through the cultural production of an imagined Spanish past."—Ramón Gutiérrez, author of When Jesus Came the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846, and co-editor of Contested Eden: California Before the Gold Rush "Between the two world wars, villagers in northern New Mexico became Spanish Americans rather than Mexican Americans, and artists, writers, and boosters celebrated their previously despised arts, crafts, architecture, foods, and folkways. With probing intelligence and graceful, limpid prose, Montgomery tells the remarkable story of this shift in regional identity and its disturbing and enduring consequences. The "quaint" Hispano villages of northern New Mexico will never look the same."—David J. Weber, author of The Spanish Frontier in North America
Explorers Guide Santa Fe and Taos Eighth Edition
Author: Sharon Niederman
Publisher: The Countryman Press
ISBN: 1581571429
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Highly recommended by Travel and Leisure and New Mexico magazines, this is the ultimate guide to Santa Fe and Taos. Now in its eighth edition, Santa Fe & Taos: A Great Destination is a comprehensive guide to the land of enchantment. The author provides up-to-date information on all the attractions unique to this area: traditional festivals and markets, funky cafés, lavish health spas and beautiful scenery, along with information about Northern New Mexixo’s fascinating history. This completely updated new edition has hundreds of recommendations on the best lodging, dining, sightseeing, and shopping and is now in full-color, featuring detailed maps and more than 100 vibrant photos.
Publisher: The Countryman Press
ISBN: 1581571429
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Highly recommended by Travel and Leisure and New Mexico magazines, this is the ultimate guide to Santa Fe and Taos. Now in its eighth edition, Santa Fe & Taos: A Great Destination is a comprehensive guide to the land of enchantment. The author provides up-to-date information on all the attractions unique to this area: traditional festivals and markets, funky cafés, lavish health spas and beautiful scenery, along with information about Northern New Mexixo’s fascinating history. This completely updated new edition has hundreds of recommendations on the best lodging, dining, sightseeing, and shopping and is now in full-color, featuring detailed maps and more than 100 vibrant photos.
Explorer's Guide Santa Fe & Taos: A Great Destination (Eighth Edition)
Author: Sharon Niederman
Publisher: The Countryman Press
ISBN: 1581577656
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Highly recommended by Travel and Leisure and New Mexico magazines, this is the ultimate guide to Santa Fe and Taos. Now in its eighth edition, Santa Fe & Taos: A Great Destination is a comprehensive guide to the land of enchantment. The author provides up-to-date information on all the attractions unique to this area: traditional festivals and markets, funky cafés, lavish health spas and beautiful scenery, along with information about Northern New Mexixo’s fascinating history. This completely updated new edition has hundreds of recommendations on the best lodging, dining, sightseeing, and shopping and is now in full-color, featuring detailed maps and more than 100 vibrant photos.
Publisher: The Countryman Press
ISBN: 1581577656
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Highly recommended by Travel and Leisure and New Mexico magazines, this is the ultimate guide to Santa Fe and Taos. Now in its eighth edition, Santa Fe & Taos: A Great Destination is a comprehensive guide to the land of enchantment. The author provides up-to-date information on all the attractions unique to this area: traditional festivals and markets, funky cafés, lavish health spas and beautiful scenery, along with information about Northern New Mexixo’s fascinating history. This completely updated new edition has hundreds of recommendations on the best lodging, dining, sightseeing, and shopping and is now in full-color, featuring detailed maps and more than 100 vibrant photos.
Designing Detroit
Author: Michael G. Smith
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814339808
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Shines a light on Detroit architect Wirt Rowland who, until now, has largely slipped into obscurity. In the early 1900s, Detroit was leading the nation in architectural innovation and designer Wirt Rowland was at the forefront of this advancement, yet few are even aware of his substantial contribution to the evolution of architectural style. It is widely believed that celebrated local architect Albert Kahn designed many of Detroit's structures, such as the General Motors and First National Bank buildings. In fact, while Kahn's efforts were focused on running his highly successful firm, it was Rowland, his chief designer, who was responsible for the appearance and layout of these buildings—an important point in appreciating the contributions of both Kahn and Rowland. During the early twentieth century, Rowland devised a wholly new or "modern" design for buildings, one not reliant on decorative elements copied from architecture of the past. As buildings became more specialized for their intended use, Rowland met the challenge with entirely new design methodologies and a number of improved technologies and materials that subsequently became commonplace. Designing Detroit: Wirt Rowland and the Rise of Modern American Architecture begins with a brief overview of Rowland's early life and career. Author Michael G. Smith goes on to analyze Rowland's achievements in building design and as a leader of Detroit's architectural community throughout both World Wars and the Great Depression. The interdependence of architecture with the city's fluctuating economic prosperity and population growth is explored, illuminating the conditions for good architecture and the arts in general. The author identifies the influence of Jay Hambidge's "dynamic symmetry" in Rowland's work and how it allowed him to employ color as a modern replacement for traditional ornamentation, leading to the revolutionary design of the Union Trust (Guardian) Building, for which he receives nearly unanimous praise in national media. This book is concerned primarily with Rowland's influence on Detroit architecture, but spans beyond his work in Michigan to include the designer's broad reach from New York to Miami. A comprehensive appendix includes extensive lists of Rowland's publications, locations he had designed, and jobs taken on by his firm during his tenure. This book represents new research and insights not previously discussed in either scholarly or general audience texts and will be of interest to casual readers of Detroit history, as well as architecture historians.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814339808
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Shines a light on Detroit architect Wirt Rowland who, until now, has largely slipped into obscurity. In the early 1900s, Detroit was leading the nation in architectural innovation and designer Wirt Rowland was at the forefront of this advancement, yet few are even aware of his substantial contribution to the evolution of architectural style. It is widely believed that celebrated local architect Albert Kahn designed many of Detroit's structures, such as the General Motors and First National Bank buildings. In fact, while Kahn's efforts were focused on running his highly successful firm, it was Rowland, his chief designer, who was responsible for the appearance and layout of these buildings—an important point in appreciating the contributions of both Kahn and Rowland. During the early twentieth century, Rowland devised a wholly new or "modern" design for buildings, one not reliant on decorative elements copied from architecture of the past. As buildings became more specialized for their intended use, Rowland met the challenge with entirely new design methodologies and a number of improved technologies and materials that subsequently became commonplace. Designing Detroit: Wirt Rowland and the Rise of Modern American Architecture begins with a brief overview of Rowland's early life and career. Author Michael G. Smith goes on to analyze Rowland's achievements in building design and as a leader of Detroit's architectural community throughout both World Wars and the Great Depression. The interdependence of architecture with the city's fluctuating economic prosperity and population growth is explored, illuminating the conditions for good architecture and the arts in general. The author identifies the influence of Jay Hambidge's "dynamic symmetry" in Rowland's work and how it allowed him to employ color as a modern replacement for traditional ornamentation, leading to the revolutionary design of the Union Trust (Guardian) Building, for which he receives nearly unanimous praise in national media. This book is concerned primarily with Rowland's influence on Detroit architecture, but spans beyond his work in Michigan to include the designer's broad reach from New York to Miami. A comprehensive appendix includes extensive lists of Rowland's publications, locations he had designed, and jobs taken on by his firm during his tenure. This book represents new research and insights not previously discussed in either scholarly or general audience texts and will be of interest to casual readers of Detroit history, as well as architecture historians.
Navajo Textiles
Author: Laurie D. Webster
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1607326736
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Navajo Textiles provides a nuanced account the Navajo weavings in the Crane Collection at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science—one of the largest collections of Navajo textiles in the world. Bringing together the work of anthropologists and indigenous artists, the book explores the Navajo rug trade in the mid-nineteenth century and changes in the Navajo textile market while highlighting the museum’s important, though still relatively unknown, collection of Navajo textiles. In this unique collaboration among anthropologists, museums, and Navajo weavers, the authors provide a narrative of the acquisition of the Crane Collection and a history of Navajo weaving. Personal reflections and insights from foremost Navajo weavers D. Y. Begay and Lynda Teller Pete are also featured, and more than one hundred stunning full-color photographs of the textiles in the collection are accompanied by technical information about the materials and techniques used in their creation. An introduction by Ann Lane Hedlund documents the growing collaboration between Navajo weavers and museums in Navajo textile research. The legacy of Navajo weaving is complex and intertwined with the history of the Diné themselves. Navajo Textiles makes the history and practice of Navajo weaving accessible to an audience of scholars and laypeople both within and outside the Diné community.
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1607326736
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Navajo Textiles provides a nuanced account the Navajo weavings in the Crane Collection at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science—one of the largest collections of Navajo textiles in the world. Bringing together the work of anthropologists and indigenous artists, the book explores the Navajo rug trade in the mid-nineteenth century and changes in the Navajo textile market while highlighting the museum’s important, though still relatively unknown, collection of Navajo textiles. In this unique collaboration among anthropologists, museums, and Navajo weavers, the authors provide a narrative of the acquisition of the Crane Collection and a history of Navajo weaving. Personal reflections and insights from foremost Navajo weavers D. Y. Begay and Lynda Teller Pete are also featured, and more than one hundred stunning full-color photographs of the textiles in the collection are accompanied by technical information about the materials and techniques used in their creation. An introduction by Ann Lane Hedlund documents the growing collaboration between Navajo weavers and museums in Navajo textile research. The legacy of Navajo weaving is complex and intertwined with the history of the Diné themselves. Navajo Textiles makes the history and practice of Navajo weaving accessible to an audience of scholars and laypeople both within and outside the Diné community.
Across Frontiers
Author: Dexter Cirillo
Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
At last comes a beautiful, authoritative survey of the thriving Hispanic craft movement of the Southwest. Tracing the roots of this revival back to Spanish settlers, this book presents the work of more than 80 contemporary artists and illuminates the rich cultural history of a region where frontiers intermingled to produce a unique local aesthetic. 115 color and 40 bandw photos.
Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
At last comes a beautiful, authoritative survey of the thriving Hispanic craft movement of the Southwest. Tracing the roots of this revival back to Spanish settlers, this book presents the work of more than 80 contemporary artists and illuminates the rich cultural history of a region where frontiers intermingled to produce a unique local aesthetic. 115 color and 40 bandw photos.