REMEMBERED PAST, DISCOVERED FUTURE; THE ALABAMA ARCHITECTURE OF WARREN KNIGHT & DAVIS, 1906-1961 . . . CATALOGUE OF EXHIBITIONS AT BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART, BIRMINGHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM VISUAL ARTS GALLERY.

Schnorrenberg, John M. Gail Andrews Trechsel (Preface). Birmingham Museum of Art. [Warren, Knight & Davis; William Tilman Warren, 1877-1962; John Eayres Davis, 1891-1961; Eugene Herbert Knight, 1884-1971.]

ISBN 10: 0931394430 / ISBN 13: 9780931394430

Published by Birmingham, AL: Birmingham Museum of Art, 1999., 1999

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151 pages. Paperback: H 27.75cm x L 21.75cm. Paper covers lightly rubbed. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding remains fairly crisp. A fine copy. With Preface by Gail Andrews Trechsel, Acknowledgements, color and b/w illustrations (including elevations, sections, details, and plans), Endnotes, Bibliography, and Checklists of the Exhibitions. Five primary sections titled as: "The Architectural Education of Three American Architects: William Tilman Warren, Eugene Herbert Knight, and John Eayres Davis;" "The Early Work: Warren and Welton (1906-1910), W.T. Warren (1911-17), Eugene H. Knight (1915-17);" "Design, Detail, and the Emerging Big Office: Warren and Knight, 1917-21;" "Remembered Past and Discovered Future: Prosperity, Depression, and Recovery: Warren Knight and Davis, 1921-1961;" and "Warren Knight and Davis in the Context of American Architecture." {Arch-Shelf#1} ISBN 0931394430.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: REMEMBERED PAST, DISCOVERED FUTURE; THE ALABAMA ARCHITECTURE OF WARREN KNIGHT & DAVIS, 1906-1961 . . . CATALOGUE OF EXHIBITIONS AT BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART, BIRMINGHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM VISUAL ARTS GALLERY.
• Publisher: Birmingham, AL: Birmingham Museum of Art, 1999.
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0931394430
• ISBN 13: 9780931394430
• Binding: Soft cover
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

"Remembered Past, Discovered Future: The Alabama Architecutre of Warren Knight & Davis, 1906-1961" is an extensively researched and comprehensive catalog published to accompany a 1999 exhibition at the Birmingham Museum of Art. William T. Warren, Eugene H. Knight, and John E. Davis formed the partnership of Warren, Knight & Davis in Birmingham in 1921. The original partners built a firm that was not only prolific but also integral to the development of Birmingham, the state of Alabama, and the Southeast during the first half of the twentieth century. Author John M. Schnorrenberg illustrates how the firm was created and became the dominant architectural firm in Alabama from the 1920s to at least the end of the 1950s. Outside of Birmingham, the firm contributed designs to several structures in the Montgomery state capitol complex, buildings on college and university campuses throughout the state, and courthouses in cities and towns throughout Alabama and Florida. In and around Birmingham, Warren Knight & Davis designed many of the commercial buildings that define the city’s skyline, a majority of public school buildings in the city, and many homes for the city’s most prominent residents. During the 1920s alone, the firm designed, among other buildings, the Alabama Power Building, Independent Presbyterian Church, Protective Life Building, Norwood School, Country Club of Birmingham, Birmingham Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and homes for several of Birmingham’s most distinguished residents, including Theodore Swann.