I fondamenti del costruire - I materiali, le tecniche, i metodi

Associazione artistica fra i cultori d'architettura
Casa Editrice d'Arte Bestetti e Tumminelli

Alfredo Melani
Casa editrice Dottor Francesco Vallardi

Umberto Girola
[Impresa Umberto Girola]

Giuseppe Merzario
Casa editrice Giacomo Agnelli

Giuseppe Pasquali, Pasquale Pinna
Electa editrice

Roger G. Kennedy
Rizzoli International Publications

"In 1826, as the United States celebrated its fiftieth birthday and bade farewell to the last of its founding fathers, a new American consciousness was being born - one characterized by optimism, self-assurance, and affluence. This forward-looking attitude was the very embodiment of the American Greek Revival, a movement that arose from a state of mind and a style of life, and one that was most publicly expressed through architecture." "In Greek Revival America, Roger Kennedy takes a long, loving look at the style of living and governing fostered by the American Greek Revival, a period that reached full flower in the 1820s and flourished until its spirit was crushed by the tragedy and pessimism of the Civil War. In this full-scale study of the era, the author uses architecture as a springboard to launch into the realm of social history, inviting the reader to examine the multifaceted panorama of forces that created the underpinnings of this style." "For example, the text shows why --

André Guillou
L'Erma di Bretschneider

Alberto Sartoris
Ulrico Hoepli éditeur

Jean Stern
Librairie Plon

Giangiorgio Zorzi
Neri Pozza

Giovanni Chevalley
S.T.E.N. Società Tipografico - Editrice Nazionale

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