Author: Chris Wilson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393730678
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Facing Southwest is a colourful exploration of the life and work of Santa Fe architect John Gaw Meem. Regarded as the leading southwest architect of his time, John Gaw Meem brought the Santa Fe style to its peak in the 1920s and 1930s. With original drawings, floor plans and stunning colour photographs, this book explores Meem's signature design elements and numerous examples of his unique Spanish- and Pueblo-influenced residences. It includes 176 colour and 100 black-and-white illustrations.
Author: Kate Wingert-Playdon
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 082635209X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Built by Spanish Franciscan missionaries in the seventeenth century, the magnificent mission church at Acoma Pueblo in west-central New Mexico is the oldest and largest intact adobe structure in North America. But in the 1920s, in danger of becoming a ruin, the building was restored in a cooperative effort among Acoma Pueblo, which owned the structure, and other interested parties. Kate Wingert-Playdon's narrative of the restoration and the process behind it is the only detailed account of this milestone example of historic preservation, in which New Mexico's most famous architect, John Gaw Meem, played a major role.
Author: Kate Wingert-Playdon
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826352111
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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Built by Spanish Franciscan missionaries in the seventeenth century, the magnificent mission church at Acoma Pueblo in west-central New Mexico is the oldest and largest intact adobe structure in North America. But in the 1920s, in danger of becoming a ruin, the building was restored in a cooperative effort among Acoma Pueblo, which owned the structure, and other interested parties. Kate Wingert-Playdon’s narrative of the restoration and the process behind it is the only detailed account of this milestone example of historic preservation, in which New Mexico’s most famous architect, John Gaw Meem, played a major role.
Author: Helen Thompson
Publisher: The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN: 1580935613
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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First survey of modernist and contemporary architecture and interiors in the richly layered architectural history of Santa Fe Santa Fe Modern reveals the high desert landscape as an ideal setting for bold, abstracted forms of modernist houses. Wide swaths of glass, deep-set portals, long porches, and courtyards allow vistas, color, and light to become integral parts of the very being of a house, emboldening a way to experience a personal connection to the desert landscape. The architects featured draw from the New Mexican architectural heritage--they use ancient materials such as adobe in combination with steel and glass, and they apply this language to the proportions and demands exacted by today's world. The houses they have designed are confident examples of architecture that is particular to the New Mexico landscape and climate, and yet simultaneously evoke the rigorous expressions of modernism. The vigor and the allure of modern art and architecture hearten each other in a way that is visible and exciting, and this book demonstrates the synergistic relationship between art, architecture, and the land.
Author: Paul Weideman
Publisher: Blurb
ISBN: 9780578606903
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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A history of Santa Fe Style architecture and materials in the nation's oldest capital city, with 160 photographs
Author: Ward Alan Minge
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826313010
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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A comprehensive history of the Acoma sanctioned by the tribe.
Author: John D. Wirth
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826328830
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Wirth and Aldrich examine the Los Alamos Ranch School, an elite prep school for boys, ages twelve to eighteen. In existence between the two World Wars, the schoolas curriculum combined a robust outdoor life with a rigorous academic program mirroring the Progressive Era's quest for perfection.
Author: Arnold Berke
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 156898295X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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"Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter ... was an architect and interior designer who spent virtually her entire career working simultaneously for the Fred Harvey Company and the Santa Fe Railway."--p. 9.
Author: Karen Witynski
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9781423615460
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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In their fourth book, authors/designers Karen Witynski and Joe Carr forage through the American Southwest and mountains of Mexico in search of the furnishings, accents and architectural elements that reveal its time-honored beauty and character. From rugged Arizona ranches and haciendas to contemporary Santa Fe homes, Adobe Details celebrates the natural materials--earth, wood and stone--that proudly bear evidence of the human hand. From adobe walls textured with agave fibers to hand-adzed vigas and gleaming Saltillo-tile floors, the adobe home is alive with rich surfaces that evoke a casual, timesless context. Adobe Details will show you how to achieve the look.
Author: Marc Treib
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520064201
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Book Description
Description and history of the early churches and missions in New Mexico.
