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$24.95  Buy | Houston Deco (HB)
Modernistic Architecture of the Texas Coast
Jim Parsons and David Bush
In the 1920s, as Houston was beginning its transition from medium-sized Southern city to major American metropolis, local business and civic leaders made a conscious decision to create a new image for their community. For many, modernistic architecture symbolized their best hopes for Houston's future. As the Roaring Twenties gave way to the Great Depression, Art Deco zigzags and Art Moderne streamlining reshaped the city's stores and skyscrapers, factories and apartment buildings. Modernistic design was a major force in Houston architecture through the post- World War II building boom. As the style fell from fashion... More » | | | |  Hard Cover
$49.95 Buy | Historic Texas Courthouses
Michael A. Andrews
There is no more eloquent expression of a civilization’s economic progress and cultural maturity than its civic architecture. The historic courthouses of Texas testify to the independence and fortitude of a resolute people determined to wrench order out of the devastation of Civil War and to enforce justice on a frontier advanced beyond the reaches of law. During the late nineteenth century and early years of the twentieth—termed by author Michael Andrews “the Great Age of Texas Courthouses”—county courthouses rose as the predominant symbols of progress and stability, optimism and robust community pride. ... More » | | | |  Hard Cover
$19.95 Buy | Moxie
The Dachsund of Fallingwater
Cara Armstrong
Children experience the renowned Frank Lloyd Wright house that boldly cantilevers over a waterfall in the western Pennsylvania mountains through the eyes of the Kaufmann family’s most beloved dog in residence. Beginning with the initial site survey, the loveable dachshund reflects on the myriad details that make the "Big House" so special. Moxie and her siblings’ preferred picnic site, the rock, becomes the foundation that supports the residence’s dramatic design, and the grand fireplace built around the big rock provides a warm stone where the dogs nap whenever they want. A table that can be stretched out so that as many as 18 of their friends... More » |
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