Archive for the 'Architecture' Category

Parthenon Recreated in Nashville 1925

TENNESSEE’S NEW PARTHENON
GENTLY, AS BEFITS THE FRENCH, a Parisian journalist pokes fun at the Tennesseeans for erecting at Nashville a superb copy of the Parthenon. It shows how genuinely they admire things European, he finds. Also, it reveals a certain discontent with things American. However, these are phenomena to be perceived only by those who [...]

Small Houses 1916

LITTLE HOUSES IN BRICK AND STUCCO
REASONABLENESS and imagination, recognized by the Mediaeval builders as the underlying principles of all great architecture. should be as inseparably united in the small home of today us they were in the great cathedrals of old. For the little house is an expression of thought, though a very different kind [...]

Prices of Building Materials 1916

THE TREND OF PRICES OF BUILDING MATERIALS
AMONG architects and others interested in the cost of building, the actual situation in the construction field is not always entirely understood, and at the present time particularly the percentages of increase in prices of materials that have taken place since the effect of the war in Europe has [...]

Beautifying Service Stations 1927

NOW that the automotive industry has developed to the point where methods and products are fairly standard it would be appropriate if a good measure of attention might be given to the more attractive design of buildings.
MoToR asked James R e n w i c k Thomson, a New York architect, his opinion of the [...]

The Bungalows Furniture

If, after having been built with great respect for harmony and appropriateness, the bungalow should be filled with the usual collection of badly designed and inadequate furniture, the ensemble would be distressing, and the thought involved in the structure of the building thrown away.
The term furniture implies, per se, movable portions of the building, and, [...]

Building with Metal Lath in 1921

DEVELOPMENT of metal lath as a basic exterior wall material has been one of the remarkable features of recent progress. Its easy adaptability to every kind of building has led to its wide use and the attendant evolution from crude to perfect construction has brought forth several distinct types of exterior wall, of which the [...]

Building with Brick in 1921

WHEN the choice of the material for a home is being considered, the essential qualities that are desirableâ€”permanence and style, strength and beautyâ€”point directly to face brick. Durable as the eternal hills, it is proof against the corrosion of the seasons and the ravages of fire, thus reducing the cost of maintenance and depreciation to [...]

Building with Wood in 1921

TO many Americans the house of wood will perhaps always typify the home. This is not strange when it is recalled that the larger part of the development of our early houses dating back to the colonial days grew up around the use of wood. Wonderful growths of timber were at hand, only needing the [...]