From its founding in 1758, Pittsburgh has experienced several epic transformations. It began its existence as a fortress, on a site originally selected by George Washington. A hundred years later, a
The construction of the Church of Notre-Dame was one of the boldest building projects of the nineteenth century. The first major example of Gothic Revival architecture in Canada, it was, at the time
The first in a series on the excavation of the cathedral, or Duomo, of Florence, Italy, this volume presents an account of the liturgy that was used in the cathedral of Santa Reparata, which was destr
At the forefront of national and international change, Pittsburgh has long been portrayed as a place for innovative architecture. From its origins as a fort built in 1753 at the urging of a twenty-one
Fallingwater Rising is a biography not of a person but of the most famous house of the twentieth century. Scholars and the public have long extolled the house that Frank Lloyd Wright perched over a Pe
Toker (history of art and architecture, U. of Pittsburgh) tours Pittsburgh's architecturally significant buildings, starting from the downtown. Entries include location information (keyed to maps), pr
The cathedral or Duomo of S. Maria del Fiore in Florence ranks with the Parthenon in Athens, the Pantheon in Rome, Istanbul's Hagia Sofia, Chartres cathedral, St. Peter's, the Eiffel Tower, and Frank
Seventeen years in the making, this volume is published as part of the estimable Buildings of the United States series, an ambitious state-by-state project of the Society of Architectural Historians.
