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Jere Langdo Jackson - Diedrich Rulfs: Designing Modern Nacogdoches - 9781936205172 - V9781936205172
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Diedrich Rulfs: Designing Modern Nacogdoches

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Description for Diedrich Rulfs: Designing Modern Nacogdoches Hardcover. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: AMB; AMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 229 x 38. Weight in Grams: 3198.
Diedrich Anton Wilhelm Rulfs, the German-born architect who immigrated to Nacogdoches, Texas in 1880, transformed the historic, frontier town into a modern city. The life and work of Rulfs and his interaction with his contemporaries is the story of Nacogdoches in the crucial years at the turn of the 20th century. The substantial visual legacy of Rulfs to the history of a pioneering town can be enjoyed today. Over fifty architectural creations are extant and form the core for the city's extensive National Registry Districts. Rulfs incorporated the motifs of his homeland along with elements from current trends in American architecture into Nacogdoches projects. He comfortably used classical and Palladian features, romantic (Gothic), flamboyant (Queen Ann), and eclectic (Mediterranean) styles. Rulfs proved himself a master at servicing many architectural needs: modest domestic structures, commercial buildings, city blocks, hotels, elaborately fashionable mansions, churches for all denominations, and public schools. While few towns the size of Nacogdoches had, or could have supported, a talented resident architect, Rulfs returned the admiration by working flawlessly with the community. His success resided in his professionalism, his intimate knowledge of his clients, and his willingness to accomodate his designs to the needs and budgets of his patrons. Rulfs, as the architect and builder of choice in Nacogdoches between 1880 to the mid-1920s, left an incorporable architectural legacy.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Stephen F. Austin University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781936205172
SKU
V9781936205172
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