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Austin, Dan.

Summary: From the Publisher: In this important book, Dan Austin and Sean Doerr have restored the real people to many of Detroit's architectural landmarks, and not a moment too soon. These "lost" buildings still stand, or rather totter, in a dilapidated state, their histories fading like the paint on their walls. The buildings might not long survive, but thanks to this book and the efforts of Austin...

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Publisher / Publication Date: History Press 2010

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 AUS

Sharoff, Robert.

Summary: "In the 1910s and 1920s there was more steel going up in Detroit than anywhere outside of New York and Chicago. The result was the country's first high-tech metropolis, a city of lavish monuments and glittering skyscrapers." "The list of major architects who designed buildings for Detroit includes Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Stanford White, Daniel Burnham, Cass Gilbert, Albert Kahn,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 720.9774 SHA

Summary: Lafayette Park, an affordable middle-class residential area in downtown Detroit, is home to the largest collection of buildings designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in the world. Today, it is one of Detroit's most racially integrated and economically stable neighborhoods, although it is surrounded by evidence of a city in financial distress. Through interviews with and essays by residents;...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolis Books 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 633 Thanks

Arnaud, Michel

Summary: [This book] is a visual essay on the rebuilding and resurgence of the city of Detroit by photographer Michel Arnaud, co-author of Design Brooklyn. In recent years, much of the focus on Detroit has been on the negative stories and images of shuttered, empty buildings-- the emblems of Detroit's financial and physical decline. In contrast, Arnaud aims his lens at the emergent creative enterprises...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 ARN

Summary: Nearly twenty years in the making, this volume includes many of Detroit's most well-known churches, like Sainte Anne in Corktown, the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Boston-Edison, Saint Florian in Hamtramck, Mariners' Church on the riverfront, Saint Mary's in Greektown, and Central United Methodist Church downtown. The authors have incorporated information from publis resources,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 726.5 DET

Hill, Eric J.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.74 HIL

Morrison, Jeffrey

Summary: Detroit is home to amazing architectural sculpture-a host of gargoyles, grotesques, and other silent guardians that watch over the city from high above its streets and sidewalks, often unnoticed or ignored by the people passing below. Jeff Morrison's Guardians of Detroit: Architectural Sculpture in the Motor City documents these incredible features in a city that began as a small frontier fort...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 729.5 MOR

Moore, Andrew

Summary: No longer the Motor City of boom-time industry, the city of Detroit has fallen into an incredible state of dilapidation since the decline of the American auto industry after the Second World War. Today, whole sections of the city resemble a war zone, its once-spectacular architectural grandeur reduced to vacant ruins. In Detroit Disassembled, photographer Andrew Moore records a territory in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Damiani Editore 2010

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 770 MOO

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