Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Witold Rybczynski, Laurie Olin, Steven Brooke (Photographer)Series:Penn Studies in Landscape ArchitecturePublish date:1/4/2007Pages:296
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pennsylvania PressISBN-13:9780812239515ISBN-10:812239512UPC:9780812239515Book Category:ArchitectureBook Subcategory:History, Landscape, BuildingsBook Topic:ResidentialSize:10.30 x 8.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:2.4515Product ID:SCZTBGCG2Q
Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers
The Miami estate of Vizcaya, like its palatial contemporaries Biltmore and San Simeon, represents an achievement of the Gilded Age, when country houses and their gardens were a conspicuous measure of personal wealth and power.
In Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers, a celebrated architecture critic and writer and an award-winning landscape architect explore the little-known story of...Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pennsylvania PressISBN-13:9780812239515ISBN-10:812239512UPC:9780812239515Book Category:ArchitectureBook Subcategory:History, Landscape, BuildingsBook Topic:ResidentialSize:10.30 x 8.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:2.4515Product ID:SCZTBGCG2Q
Witold Rybczynski is the Martin and Margy Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of many books, including the award-winning biography of Frederick Law Olmsted, A Clearing in the Distance, and the best-selling Home: A Short History of an Idea. He has written on architecture and urbanism for the New York Times, New Yorker, Slate, and New York Review of...
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
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Witold Rybczynski, Laurie Olin, Steven Brooke (Photographer)
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