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- catalog abstract ""From the time of Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus, and even earlier, adventurous individuals left their home countries to travel to faraway lands. As these voyagers settled into outposts in the most distant reaches of the world, they built grand new homes as symbols of permanence and prosperity. Writer and photographer Ovidio Guaita has followed the paths of the colonists to dozens of countries to create, in more than five hundred color photographs, this unprecedented survey of colonial architecture around the world." "Ovidio Guaita works in the Department of History and Restoration of the Faculty of Architecture of Florence."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Villa coloniale. English".
- catalog contributor b11478296.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""From the time of Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus, and even earlier, adventurous individuals left their home countries to travel to faraway lands. As these voyagers settled into outposts in the most distant reaches of the world, they built grand new homes as symbols of permanence and prosperity. Writer and photographer Ovidio Guaita has followed the paths of the colonists to dozens of countries to create, in more than five hundred color photographs, this unprecedented survey of colonial architecture around the world." "Ovidio Guaita works in the Department of History and Restoration of the Faculty of Architecture of Florence."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Houses and colonies -- British colonial style. North America ; Bermuda ; West Indies ; Mediterranean basin ; Seychelles ; Central and southern Africa ; Indian subcontinent ; Far East ; Malay Peninsula ; Australia ; New Zealand ; Palladianism and Neoclassicism -- Spanish colonial style. New Spain ; Central America ; Greater Antilles ; South America ; Philippines ; Baroque voluptuousness and "tropical minimalism" -- French colonial style. Quebec ; Louisiana ; West Indies ; Northwestern Africa ; Western Africa ; Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands ; Beams and lace -- Portuguese colonial style. Brazil ; Madeira ; Melaka ; Macau ; Four models for a fazenda -- Dutch colonial style. Netherlands Antilles ; South Africa ; Indonesia ; An exaltation of pediments and gables -- Ottoman colonial style. Middle East ; Islamic forms -- Chinese colonial style. Korea ; Taiwan ; Among the turned-up roofs -- Italian colonial style. East Africa ; Classical and futurist stateliness -- Omani colonial style. Zanzibar ; Sculpted doors.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog extent "359 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "On distant shores.".
- catalog identifier "1580930514".
- catalog isFormatOf "On distant shores.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng ita".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Monacelli Press,".
- catalog relation "On distant shores.".
- catalog subject "720/.9 21".
- catalog subject "Architecture, Colonial Pictorial works.".
- catalog subject "Architecture, Colonial.".
- catalog subject "Architecture, Domestic Pictorial works.".
- catalog subject "Architecture, Domestic.".
- catalog subject "NA7125 .G8313 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "Houses and colonies -- British colonial style. North America ; Bermuda ; West Indies ; Mediterranean basin ; Seychelles ; Central and southern Africa ; Indian subcontinent ; Far East ; Malay Peninsula ; Australia ; New Zealand ; Palladianism and Neoclassicism -- Spanish colonial style. New Spain ; Central America ; Greater Antilles ; South America ; Philippines ; Baroque voluptuousness and "tropical minimalism" -- French colonial style. Quebec ; Louisiana ; West Indies ; Northwestern Africa ; Western Africa ; Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands ; Beams and lace -- Portuguese colonial style. Brazil ; Madeira ; Melaka ; Macau ; Four models for a fazenda -- Dutch colonial style. Netherlands Antilles ; South Africa ; Indonesia ; An exaltation of pediments and gables -- Ottoman colonial style. Middle East ; Islamic forms -- Chinese colonial style. Korea ; Taiwan ; Among the turned-up roofs -- Italian colonial style. East Africa ; Classical and futurist stateliness -- Omani colonial style. Zanzibar ; Sculpted doors.".
- catalog title "On distant shores : colonial architecture around the world / Ovidio Guaita.".
- catalog title "Villa coloniale. English".
- catalog type "Pictorial works. fast".
- catalog type "text".