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Architecture and the politics of gender in early modern Europe / by Hills, Helen.(CARDINAL)270186;
Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-208) and index.
Subjects: Architecture and women; Architecture and society;
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A home of her own / by Hiller, Nancy R.,author.(CARDINAL)801531; Reeves, Kendall,photographer.(CARDINAL)811341; Poore, Patricia,author of foreword.(CARDINAL)730419;
Includes bibliographical references.Introduction -- A painter's haven -- Trading up -- A house of stone -- Coming home -- Staying home -- A May-December romance -- Small is beautiful -- Serial monogamy -- Thinking inside the box -- Gratification delayed -- Love lost, then found -- Turn-of-the-century townhouse -- Holding the world together -- Tenth time's a charm -- Diverging from the script -- A preference for lawyers -- Occupying space -- Home on the range."For some, home is simply a place to eat, sleep, and store possessions. For others, home offers intimate and rewarding opportunities for self-expression, becoming a reflection of taste, values, and even identity. The activities of constructing and maintaining a home can provide a sense of existential purpose, of belonging to a particular place along with others who have cared for that place before. Illustrated with more than 100 color photographs, A Home of Her Own showcases a wide variety of homes and tells the stories of their making."--Publisher's description.
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Architecture and women.; Women; Women.; Womyn.;
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Architecture, men, women and money in America, 1600-1860 / by Kennedy, Roger G.(CARDINAL)164344;
Bibliography: pages 489-497.Part I, The Atlantic Progression: Stepping Ashore -- Palladio and the Plantation -- Sugar, Slaves and Architecture -- Dutch Colonial -- The Caribbean Cottage -- Part II, Going Ashore to Stay Ashore: Transitional Architecture Ashore -- Anglo-Dutch Provincial -- Home and Land -- Yankees and West Indians -- Charleston -- Savannah: William Jay and Robert Mills -- An Upcountry Boomtown -- Part III, The Classic Period: Speculators, Stagecraft and Statecraft -- Classic in Context -- Nicholas Biddle -- Mobile and Yankee Classicism -- The Halifax Whigs -- Part IV, Across the Mountains: Orpheus Observed -- The Carter Mansion -- The Legitimate Succession -- Cotton Pull -- Pericles and Tara -- Elegance and Terror: The Wade Hamptons -- Natchez, and the Nutts -- Samuel Sloan and the Octagon -- Building Longwood -- Part V, Pivot Point: Hellenism in the North -- Solid Citizens in Indiana -- Salt Pork, Railroads and War -- The American Picturesque -- Minnesota Gothic -- The Career of William Gates LeDuc -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Notes -- index.A study of American domestic architecture before the Civil War, as seen from the point of view of the wealthy patrons who commissioned the great houses, presents an original economic and cultural history of the United States.
Subjects: Architecture; Architecture, Colonial; Architecture; Architects and patrons;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Maya Lin [videorecording] : a strong clear vision / by Mock, Freida Lee.; Sanders, Terry.(CARDINAL)192360; Lin, Maya,1959-(CARDINAL)198310; Scully, Vincent,Jr.,1920-2017(CARDINAL)141541; Scruggs, Jan.; Doubek, Robert.; Clay, Grady.(CARDINAL)508503; Carhart, Tom.(CARDINAL)761975; Brown, J. Carter.; Lenzer, Don.; Marritz, Edward.; Cartwright, William T.,Jr.; Bernstein, Charles.; American Film Foundation.(CARDINAL)165001; Docurama (Firm)(CARDINAL)215269; New Video Group.(CARDINAL)219113; Ocean Releasing (Firm); Sanders & Mock Productions.; Scully, Vincent,Jr.,1920-2017.(CARDINAL)141541; Marritz, Eddie.;
Directors of photography, Don Lenzer, Eddie Marritz ; editor, William T. Cartwright, Jr. ; music, Charles Bernstein.Interviews with Maya Lin, Vincent Scully, Jan Scruggs, Robert Doubek, Grady Clay, Tom Carhart, J. Carter Brown.Reveals the origins of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and tells the story of its 21 year old creator, a Yale architecture student. Lin's plan was selected from over 1,000 different designs. And what began as one of the country's most bitterly disputed monuments became one of the world's most inspirational and frequently visited memorials.MPAA rating: Not rated.DVD; Dolby digital stereo.Academy Awards, USA, 1995: Oscar - Best Documentary, Features (Freida Lee Mock, Terry Sanders).
Subjects: Feature films.; Documentary films.; Documentary films.; Lin, Maya, 1959-; Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Washington, D.C.); Architecture and women.; Women architects.; Women architects;
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Women architects at work : making American modernism / by Hunting, Mary Anne,author.(CARDINAL)859089; Murphy, Kevin D.,author.(CARDINAL)810081;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-242) and index."The first comprehensive history of the role of women architects within the history of American modernism"--
Subjects: Architecture and women; Women architects; Modern movement (Architecture); Architecture;
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The wedding chapel [videorecording] / by Long, Shelley.; Vaugier, Emmanuelle.; Hope, Barclay,1958-; Deklin, Mark,1967-; Gaiam Media.; Nasser Entertainment (Firm); Vivendi Entertainment (Firm);
Shelley Long, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Barclay Hope, Mark Deklin.Uninspired and newly single painter Sara is down on her luck and wants nothing more than to get away from her problems. When she decides to take a trip to visit her mom, she becomes involved in a mission to save a local church which is in danger of being closed down. Determined to help preserve the historic building, Sara embarks on a mission that not only gives her a new outlook on life, but enables her mother to rekindle a long lost love from her past.Not rated.DVD, region 1, widescreen.
Subjects: Feature films.; Romance films.; Fiction films.; Women artists; Mothers and daughters; Church architecture; Buildings;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Love's encore [large print] / by Brown, Sandra,1948-(CARDINAL)341432;
Subjects: Large print books.; Romance fiction.; Women interior decorators; Interior decorators; Architecture;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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Love's encore [sound recording] / by Brown, Sandra.(CARDINAL)367464; Ross, Natalie.(CARDINAL)499567;
Read by Natalie Ross.Camille Jameson has rebuilt her life as an interior decorator. Now, her greatest professional challenge brings her face-to-face with the man who brought her a lifetime of regrets.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Love stories.; Women interior decorators; Interior decorators; Architecture;
© p2010., Brilliance Audio,
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Stamped out [large print] : a stamping sisters mystery, book 1. by Thayer, Terri.(CARDINAL)488064;
Back in Aldenville, Pennsylvania, with a failed marriage and a sabotaged career in her wake, April Buchert is ready for a fresh start. For a restoration expert who creates intricate rubber-stamp patterns on walls, working alongside her father on the restoration of the town s famous Winchester mansion seems like the perfect project. But their efforts reveal a murderous motif when a skull tumbles out of the rubble during the demolition of an abandoned guesthouse.
Subjects: Large print books.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Women artisans; Murder; Fathers and daughters; Architecture; Handicraft;
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Love's encore [sound recording] by Brown, Sandra,1948-(CARDINAL)341432; Ross, Natalie.;
Performed by Natalie Ross.Camille Jameson has rebuilt her life as an interior decorator. Now, her greatest professional challenge brings her face-to-face with the man who brought her a lifetime of regrets.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Compact discs.; Love stories.; Architecture; Women interior decorators;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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