Elizabeth Collins Cromley Elizabeth Cromley bibliography Evers Alf Elizabeth Cromley Betsy Blackmar and Neil Harris Resorts of the Catskills New York NY St Martins Press 1979 ID: 161625
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Modernizing: Or, “You Never See a Screen Door on Affluent Homes”
Elizabeth Collins
CromleySlide2
Elizabeth
Cromley
bibliography
Evers, Alf, Elizabeth
Cromley
, Betsy
Blackmar
, and Neil Harris.
Resorts of the Catskills
. New York, NY: St. Martins Press, 1979.
Blackmar
, Betsy, and Elizabeth
Cromley
. "On the Verandah: Resorts of the Catskills."
Nineteenth Century
8, Nos. 1/2 (1982).
Cromley
, Elizabeth Collins. "Modernizing: Or, 'You Never See a Screen Door on Affluent Homes'."
Journal of American Culture
5, No. 2 (1982): 71-79
.
Cromley
, Elizabeth Collins. "The Development of the New York Apartment, 1860-1905."
Ph.d.
Dissertation, City University of New York, 1982.
Cromley
, Elizabeth. "Riverside Park and Issues of Historic Preservation."
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
43 (1984): 238-249.
Cromley
, Elizabeth Collins. "Public History and the Historic Preservation District."
Past Meets Present: Essays About History Interpretation and Public Audiences
. Jo
Blatti
, ed. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987.
Cromley
, Elizabeth. "Apartments and Collective Life in Nineteenth-Century New York." In
New Households, New Housing
. Karen A. Franck and Sherry
Ahrentzen
, eds. New York, NY: Van
Nostrand
Reinhold, 1989.
Cromley
, Elizabeth Collins.
Alone Together: A History of New York's Early Apartments
. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990.
Calloway, Stephen and Elizabeth
Cromley
, eds.
The Elements of Style: A Practical Encyclopedia of Interior Architectural Details from 1485 to the Present
. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1991.
Cromley
, Elizabeth Collins. "A History of American Beds and Bedrooms."
Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture
, IV. Thomas Carter and Bernard L. Herman, eds. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press for the Vernacular Architecture Forum, 1991. Pp. 177-186.
Cromley
, Elizabeth Collins. "A History of American Beds and Bedrooms, 1890-1930."
American Home Life, 1880-1930: A Social History of Spaces and Services
. Jessica Foy and Thomas J.
Schlereth
, eds. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1992. Pp. 120-141.
Cromley
, Elizabeth. "Masculine/Indian."
Winterthur Portfolio
31, No. 4 (Winter, 1996): 256-280.
Cromley
, Elizabeth C. "Transforming the Food Axis: Houses, Tools, Modes of Analysis."
Material History Review/Revue
d'historie
de la culture
matérielle
44 (Fall, 1996): 8-22.
Carter, Thomas and Elizabeth Collins
Cromley
.
Invitation to Vernacular Architecture: A Guide to the Study of Ordinary Buildings and Landscapes
. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. Slide3
Elizabeth Collins
Cromley
is a Professor of Architecture at Northeastern University in Boston, MASlide4
Goals of article
Art History looks at renovations.
Clashing and full of anomalies
But eye-catching, intriguing, and full of vitality if allowed to speak on their own terms.
What’s
my interest?
What have people done
What have they preserved
Read
“popular aesthetics.”
Design PrinciplesSlide5
Conclusion
Architecture is important to people for what it says about them and their relationship to larger world.
Urban
housing is easily changed
Manifests
attitude it is good to be different
Double desire: Different and part of a group.
Self-assertive and self-effacing
Limited
, yet flexible vocabularySlide6Slide7
Trends
Brighter color.
Juxtaposing colors
Harmony is replaced by staccato
Portable
ornaments
Symbols of the past
Outbreaks (imitation)Slide8
Architectural features make reference to past styles and the museum collection of materialsSlide9
Vernacular
De-construction
Traditional relationships among historic shapes and materials have been dismantled.
Syntactic
freedom of juxtaposing elements
Unstated
is the lack of alternatives to source—mass production is the sole source.Slide10Slide11
Dispensable
Facade is
maleable
, but overall dimensions are fixed.
Windows
are changed
Porches
are dispensable.
Gardens
and yards
Uniformity
of texture and color is dispensableSlide12Slide13Slide14
Most Striking changes
Materials
All imitative of natural materials.
Asphalt
Aluminum
Plastic
Appearance of labor-intensive materials
Synthetic
and imitative materials have a long history (who cares? Art Historians)Slide15Slide16
What is modernizing?
Modern as convenience not form
Houses
reject modernist aesthetic for domestic use.
Owners have little experience articulating aesthetic. (use of interviews)
Clean
Neat
Different
“In keeping”Slide17Slide18
Renovation
Necessary to maintain the building
Often
done by contractors (not owners)
Imitation
is a form of flattery.