Architecture of the Last Colony

Georgia's Historic Places, 1733–2000

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2023
Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation (Verlag)
978-0-8203-6296-0 (ISBN)

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Architecture of the Last Colony surveys the most important extantbuildings in the state of Georgia, focusing on structures that showcase successful historic preservation practices and techniques. Richly illustrated with full-color, large-format photographs of these structures along with descriptions of their architectural significance, this book tells the story of how Georgia’s built environment reflects its growth from 1733 to the present. While numerous books about Georgia architecture feature buildings that have been lost to demolition, this volume focuses on extant structures that readers can visit and observe for themselves.

The buildings range in style from the folk-art structures of St. EOM’s Pasaquan and Howard Finster’s Paradise Gardens to the suburban Craftsman bungalows of Leila Ross Wilburn to the lavish antebellum mansions of Savannah and Athens, Georgia. Noted architectural photographers, including Brian Brown, Diane Kirkland, James Lockhart, Charlie Miller, and John Tatum, provide the companion photographs.

The six chapters in the book, written by architectural historians with subject-matter expertise, are organized chronologically and by architectural style, covering the earliest buildings in Georgia up through significant contemporary structures of the twentieth century. These buildings tell a diverse story that shows how nationally significant architects and Native Americans, pioneer, female, and African American architects have all contributed to Georgia’s built environment.

Mark C. McDonald has served as president and CEO of the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation since June 2008. He has more than thirty-seven years of professional involvement in historic preservation and has served as the executive director for three preservation organizations in the Southeast, including the Historic Salisbury Foundation in North Carolina, the Mobile Historic Development Commission in Alabama, and the Historic Savannah Foundation. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia. ROBIN B. WILLIAMS has taught at the Savannah College of Art and Design since 1993, chairing Architectural History since the founding of the department in 1996. His teaching and research interests include the history of modern architecture and the modern city. He is the lead author of the guidebook Buildings of Savannah, which won the Best Guidebook Award from SESAH in 2018. His publications on the history of street and sidewalk pavements include "The Global Spread of Street Pavement Materials and Technology, 1820–1920,” which received the Best Essay in an Edited Volume Award from SESAH in 2023. For more than ten years, Williams served on Savannah’s Historic District Review Board and Historic Preservation Commission. He currently lives in Savannah, Georgia.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.10.2023
Co-Autor	Carl I. Gable, Carmie Jones McDonald, Joseph Smith, Spencer Tunnell
Zusatzinfo	193 color and b&w images
Sprache	englisch
Maße	254 x 305 mm
Themenwelt	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	0-8203-6296-4 / 0820362964
ISBN-13	978-0-8203-6296-0 / 9780820362960
Zustand	Neuware