Winner of the International Society of Place, Landscape, and Culture Fred B. Kniffen Award
A reexamination of working-class architecture in late nineteenth-century urban America
As the multifamily building type that often symbolized urban squalor, tenements are familiar but poorly understood, frequently recognized only in terms of the housing reform movement embraced by the American-born elite in the late nineteenth century. This book reexamines urban America's tenement buildings of this period, centering on the immigrant neighborhoods of New York and Boston.
Zachary J. Violette focuses on what he calls the "decorated tenement," a wave of new buildings constructed by immigrant builders and architects who remade the slum landscapes of the Lower East Side of Manhattan and the North and West Ends of Boston in the late nineteenth century. These buildings' highly ornamental facades became the target of predominantly upper-class and Anglo-Saxon housing reformers, who viewed the facades as garish wrappings that often hid what they assumed were exploitative and brutal living conditions. Drawing on research and fieldwork of more than three thousand extant tenement buildings, Violette uses ornament as an entry point to reconsider the role of tenement architects and builders (many of whom had deep roots in immigrant communities) in improving housing for the working poor.
Utilizing specially commissioned contem-porary photography, and many never-before-published historical images, The Decorated Tenement complicates monolithic notions of architectural taste and housing standards while broadening our understanding of the diversity of cultural and economic positions of those responsible for shaping American architecture and urban landscapes.
Winner of the International Society of Place, Landscape, and Culture Fred B. Kniffen Award
Автор: Meier Violette L. Название: Ruah the Immortal ISBN: 0991343220 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780991343225 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 17230.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Tovah (Ruah), a young first century Hebrew woman whose misguided affection, for the holiest of men, inadvertently grants her immortality. She embarks upon a dangerous journey throughout ancient Israel in search of her dishonored sister Avigayil, who is captivated by the unholiest of men, only to discover that immortality is not exclusive. Where there is light, there must be darkness. Death is never the end. Ruah the Immortal is a story of love, betrayal, and preternatural power penetrating one to the very soul. It is a tale of two sisters who wiggle through never-ending obstacles, wrestle with the sacred and the profane, and ultimately face death in hopes of finding life.
