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Loading... AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington, D.C. (edition 2012)by G. Martin Moeller Jr.
Work InformationAIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington, D.C. by G. Martin Moeller Jr.
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. https://archidose.blogspot.com/2023/01/on-guidebooks.html ( ) When visitors come to Washington, they see a dominant neo-Classical architectural style suggesting power and authority, mixed with boxy bureaucratic structures, where suited federal employees pass their days in triplicate. They should read this book to enjoy genuinely the city around them. A comprehensive introduction to DC architecture, this book predictably contains a history of the Capitol building and the Library of Congress and the 1901 McMillan Plan for the National Mall, but also various embassies, bureaucratic buildings, churches, parks, and so-forth. If I somehow failed to love the District completely previously, my infatuation is renewed. Maybe not everyone should own this book, but I’m quite convinced most people should, and certainly anyone who has any interest in DC. What I find so delightful about this book, however, is how unabashedly editorialized it is. I frequently agree, and get a certain gleeful satisfaction out of its quick, perfect judgments. Less delightful is the fact that the tiny black-and-white photographs accompanying each entry rarely do justice to the true art and design of the building. And the maps are not always well-labeled. no reviews | add a review
References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in English (22)Third Place Winner, Design and Effectiveness Award of the Washington Publishers This lively and informative guide offers tourists, residents, and architecture aficionados alike insights into more than 400 of Washington, D.C.'s, most important landmarks. Organized into 19 discrete tours, this thoroughly redesigned and updated edition includes 45 new entries, encompassing the House of Sweden and the U.S. Institute of Peace, classic buildings that epitomize the city--the White House, the Capitol, Union Station--and a number of private buildings off the beaten path. G. Martin Moeller, Jr., blends informed, concise descriptions with engaging commentary on each landmark, revealing often-surprising details of the buildings' history and design. Every entry is accompanied by a photograph and includes the structure's location, its architects and designers, and the corresponding dates of completion. Each entry is keyed to an easy-to-read map at the beginning of the tour. From the imposing monuments of Capitol Hill and the Mall to the pastoral suburban enclaves of Foxhall and Cleveland Park, from small memorials to vast commercial and institutional complexes, this guide shows us a Washington that is at once excitingly fresh and comfortably familiar. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)720.9753The arts Architecture Architecture - modified standard subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biography North America Southeastern U.S. District Of ColumbiaLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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