tennessee persuasion engineering sourcebooks

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Dams (Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks in Architecture, Design & Engineering)
Christine Macy

W. W. Norton, 2008

A lavishly illustrated exploration of these landscape-defining structures across the United States. Dams are a monumental presence on the American landscape. This newest book in the Norton/Library of Congress series shows that the history of dam development is characterized by invention and innovation, and parallels that of the United States. It emphasizes the unique design and engineering complexities of these impressive structures. 800 ...

Festival Architecture

Routledge, 2007

This book focuses on the ephemeral architecture built for festivals and shows how these constructions played a role in the development of Western architectural and urban theory. Festival architecture has allowed architects to experiment with new ideas, new forms and new spatial arrangements. The book is arranged in historical periods from Antiquity to the modern era. The analyses of specific festivals are set in relation to contemporary ideas ...

Architecture and Nature: Creating the American Landscape
Sarah Bonnemaison, Christine Macy

Routledge, 2003

The word "nature" comes from natura, Latin for birth - as do the words nation, native and innate. But nature and nation share more than a common root, they share a common history where one term has been used to define the other. In the United States, the relationship between nation and nature has been central to its colonial and post-colonial history, from the idea of the noble savage to the myth of the frontier. Narrated, painted and filmed, ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority: Design and Persuasion
Christine Macy, Jane Wolff, ...

Princeton Architectural Press, 2007

In the wake of the Great Depression, one of President Franklin Roosevelt?s most successful New Deal programs was the formation of the Tennessee Valley Authority, a federal government?owned corporation created in 1933 to revitalize the Tennessee River Valley. This book includes essays by experts in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, graphic design, industrial design, and the fine arts. Featuring new photography by Richard ...