Description
The so much-awaited reissue and reexpression of the vintage New York row-area ebook Bricks and Brownstone, with all-new and up to date textual content, new colour pictures, and comfort slipcase.
The vintage ebook Bricks & Brownstone, the primary and nonetheless the one extent to inspect intensive the converting shape and sundry architectural types of the so much-beloved New York Town row area, or brownstone, used to be first printed in 1972. That model helped pave the way in which for a brownstone revival that has remodeled New York’s ancient neighborhoods during the last part-century. Rizzoli printed a revised and extended model of the ebook in 2003, to so much fanfare. This model revisits the vintage comprehensively, with an up to date textual content and further chapters, and an abundance of particularly commissioned colour pictures. It provides to an keen target market the lengthy-awaited re-factor of the landmark extent in a super new shape.
Boasting greater than 250 colour and black-and-white photographs, this definitive extent strains New York’s row properties from colonial days thru International Conflict I, inspecting intimately the Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, and 2d Empire architectural types of the early and mid-19th century, in addition to the Neo-Grec, Queen Anne, Romanesque, Renaissance Revival, and Colonial Revival types of the overdue 19th and early 20th centuries. The brand new Bricks & Brownstone is still the gold usual reference on brownstone structure and interiors, and probably the most few in point of fact vintage histories of New York’s urbanism and actual property building.
