Buildings of Arkansas (Buildings of the United States)
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (821 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 081393978X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorCyrus A. Gordon Brooks) of the three-part film series Arkansas: Its Architectural Heritage. This volume, edited and updated by his colleagues Gregory Herman (University of Arkansas), Claudia Shannon (Shannon Design Enterprises, Inc.), Jean Sizemore (University of Arkansas at Little Rock), and Jeannie M. Sutherland was Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the University of Arkansas, a leader in the movement to preserve the state's historic buildings, and the coproducer (with H. Whayne (University of Arkansas), embodies his lifelong knowledge of and devotion to the architectural history of his native state.
The places canvassed include everything from works by Arkansas natives E. Fay Jones and Edward Durell Stone to Sam Walton's Five-and-Ten and Alice Walton's Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art to Bill Clinton's birthplace and presidential library. Along the way, it offers compelling accounts of sites from the well to the lesser knownthe magnificent Toltec Mounds near Scott, the New Deal–era Dyess Colony, Tyronza's Southern Tenant Farmers Museum, the Rohwer Relocation Center and McGehee Japanese American Internment Museum, Central High School in Little Rockand considers modern buildings that herald a renaissance in the state's cultural, economic, and political history.. From Fayetteville, Little Rock, and Hot Springs to Jonesboro, El Dorado, Arkadelphia, Texarkana, and scores of places in between, the latest volume in the Buildings of the United States series provides the most comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date guide to the architecture of Arkan
Whayne (University of Arkansas), embodies his lifelong knowledge of and devotion to the architectural history of his native state.. Cyrus A. Gordon Brooks) of the three-part film series Arkansas: Its Architectural Heritage. This volume, edited and updated by his colleagues Gregory Herman (University of Arkansas), Claudia Shannon (Shannon Design Enterprises, Inc.), Jean Sizemore (University of Arkansas at Little Rock),