Searching for Authenticity: Rustic Architecture in America 1877-1940
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Author: Edward Ford
'Searching for Authenticity' is a history of a series of misunderstood masterpieces, the log-based architecture that emerged in the Adirondacks and the National Parks between 1890 and 1935. Many of these buildings were constructional shams driven by romantic pretences, but there is also, in the best of this architecture, something truly original. Forty buildings are examined in detail through text and numerous original drawings.The story in this book is a history of how both form and technology of construction were determined by the tourist industry and the railroads who built the buildings and the social and environmental damage caused by the larger process of which they were a part. It is also a history of how the rustic aesthetic transcended glib, mythic romanticism to produce a truly original architecture, how the unique conditions of the West merged craft with the industrial, of how its designers drew on the landscape of the West in combination with the European traditions of the rustic to create an original architecture and a unique way of building.
ISBN 9781957183947. ORO Editions. pb. 500 pages. 24 x 24 cm.
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'Searching for Authenticity' is a history of a series of misunderstood masterpieces, the log-based architecture that emerged in the Adirondacks and the National Parks between 1890 and 1935. Many of these buildings were constructional shams driven by romantic pretences, but there is also, in the best of this architecture, something truly original. Forty buildings are examined in detail through text and numerous original drawings.The story in this book is a history of how both form and technology of construction were determined by the tourist industry and the railroads who built the buildings and the social and environmental damage caused by the larger process of which they were a part. It is also a history of how the rustic aesthetic transcended glib, mythic romanticism to produce a truly original architecture, how the unique conditions of the West merged craft with the industrial, of how its designers drew on the landscape of the West in combination with the European traditions of the rustic to create an original architecture and a unique way of building.
ISBN 9781957183947. ORO Editions. pb. 500 pages. 24 x 24 cm.
available