field measure survey american von ladd jeffrey (2 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 368 pages. 9.25x6.89x1.22 inches. In Stock.

[London], MACK, [2021]. 362 pages with only b./w. photographs. Orig. softcover. 8vo. [ISBN 978-1-913620-41-7]. - As new.Historic American Buildings Survey state and number appear on the four pages of the cover along with photographer name, year photographed and page number the images can be found. - - Drawing from the nearly half a million photographs and documents comprising the Historic American Buildings Survey held in the US Library of Congress, this book constructs a fictional 'one-way road trip' across the United States, weaving north and south across the Mason-Dixon line while tacking west. In A Field Measure Survey of American Architecture, Jeffrey Ladd uses the HABS archive as a surrogate in order to manifest a portrait of his former country at a moment when its democracy seems imperiled.