In a career that spanned the first half of this century, Philip Trammell Shutze produced over 750 architectural works. Because his production was so large, this first book to examine his buildings concentrates on the more important ones, which as a body represent an architectural achievement of a very high order of refinement, grace, and beauty. Although Shutze practiced from 1912 to 1968, covering the period of the ascendancy of modernism through its final triumph, he remained a firmly committed classicist, practicing out ...
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In a career that spanned the first half of this century, Philip Trammell Shutze produced over 750 architectural works. Because his production was so large, this first book to examine his buildings concentrates on the more important ones, which as a body represent an architectural achievement of a very high order of refinement, grace, and beauty. Although Shutze practiced from 1912 to 1968, covering the period of the ascendancy of modernism through its final triumph, he remained a firmly committed classicist, practicing out of an office in Atlanta where he produced an extraordinary body of monumental commercial and institutional buildings and country villas. After graduating from Georgia Tech, Shutze stayed a year at Columbia University before he won the prestigious Rome Prize in 1915. Travelling to Rome later that year, he became a member of one of the earliest classes of fellows to occupy the recently completed American Academy on the Janiculum overlooking the city. The magnificent palazzo designed by America's most renowned architectural firm, McKim, Mead, and White, did not however please the fellows, who found it "too new," and therefore not authentic (Shutze would later devote much attention to techniques for instantly aging building facades). With the coming of the First World War, Shutze and most of his classmates stayed in Rome as Red Cross volunteers, but when the war was over they returned to he Academy and to their studies. During his five years in Rome, Shutze immersed himself in learning everything he could about the great buildings of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. He painstakingly measured those buildings as well as the monuments of the Roman Empire, committing the smallest of details to paper and to memory. Returning to the U.S. in 1920, Shutze worked in New York for Mott Schmidt, who designed townhouses for such families as the Astors, Morgans, and Vanderbilts, and he also worked for F. Burrall Hoffman, whose masterpiece is Villa Vizcaya in Miami. Within a few years, though, he returned to Georgia where he remained as the epitome of the "gentleman architect," designing some of the most beautiful buildings ever to grace the American landscape.
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Hursley, Timothy. Very Good in Very Good jacket. 9 1/4" X 12 1/4" Signed by Author This is a signed first edition of a study, winner of an AIA book award, of the work of the Georgia architect Philip Trammell Shutze (1890-1982, ); known for the neo-classical style of his many important Atlanta buildings; includes a preface by Henry Hope Reed, introduction by Vincent Scully, and photography by Timothy Hursley; includes many photographs and architectural drawings; signed on the title page by the author, a professor of architectural history at the Georgia Tech College of Design (tan cloth slightly sunned along edges; half-title page has gift inscription from previous owners; brown pictorial dust jacket with photo of the historic Calhoun House in Atlanta on the front has slight edge wear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy: in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore)
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Very Good. Hardcover. First edition. xiv, 235pp+ index. Lengthy gift inscription on half title page, else a very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. Signed by Dowling on the title page.
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Fine in good dust jacket. Signed by author. Flat signed by Dowling on the title page; good+ dust jacket is lightly creased and worn at the edges, several small dimples. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 239 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book 239 pages. Hardcover. Text in English. Mild shelfwear to the edges with light associated rubbing to the dustjacket. Else, the binding is tight, the corners sharp, and interior clean and free of markings. Bound in light brown colored cloth covered boards and wrapped in an illustrated paper dustjacket. Beautifully illustrated with both vintage and contemporary photographs.
