Title: On distant shores : colonial architecture around the world /
Authors: Guaita, Ovidio.
Publisher: Monacelli Press,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Architecture, Colonial; Architecture, Domestic; Architecture, Colonial Pictorial works.; Architecture, Domestic Pictorial works.
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.
Contents: 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.