Practice of Architecture The Builder's Guide

Asher Benjamin New Introduction by Thomas Gordon Smith

ISBN 10: 0306805723 / ISBN 13: 9780306805721

Published by Da Capo Press, 1994

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Laminated card covers and faded spine; front cover creased across leading corners. Internally top corner of preliminary pages bumped; 5 cm x 3 cm water damage to lower corner of title page and a ripple through contents, diminishing and only affecting margin.

Seller Inventory # Z0086

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Practice of Architecture The Builder's Guide
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0306805723
• ISBN 13: 9780306805721
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

Asher Benjamin (1773-1845) published the first American builder's guide, and his architectural books played an invaluable role in disseminating the new language of the Greek Revival. When originally published, they were remarkably popular, and were among the most influential of all Greek Revival handbooks. Throughout the American South, Midwest, and New England, one still comes across houses built in the 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s patterned directly after Benjamin's designs.The two books incorporated here, Practice of Architecture (1833) and The Builders Guide (1839), are his most accomplished Grecian pattern books. With the growing number of contemporary architects who are designing buildings based on the forms on nineteenth century Grecian architecture, Benjamin's books should prove an invaluable resource for all lovers of the Greek Revival - builders, owners, preservationists, historians, and architects alike. Thomas Gordon Smith is chairman of the school of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame. His books include Classical Architecture: Rule and Invention and a newly illustrated edition of Vitruvius's Ten Books on Architecture/