Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America
- ISBN-10
- 0801859867
- ISBN-13
- 9780801859861
- Category
- Architecture
- Pages
- 1770
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- JHU Press
- Authors
- James D. Kornwolf, Georgiana Wallis Kornwolf
Description
Incorporating more than 3,000 illustrations, Kornwolf's work conveys the full range of the colonial encounter with the continent's geography, from the high forms of architecture through formal landscape design and town planning. From these pages emerge the fine arts of environmental design, an understanding of the political and economic events that helped to determine settlement in North America, an appreciation of the various architectural and landscape forms that the settlers created, and an awareness of the diversity of the continent's geography and its peoples. Considering the humblest buildings along with the mansions of the wealthy and powerful, public buildings, forts, and churches, Kornwolf captures the true dynamism and diversity of colonial communities - their rivalries and frictions, their outlooks and attitudes - as they extended their hold on the land.
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