American architectural history : a contemporary reader /

This major new text presents a collection of recent writings on architecture and urbanism in the United States, with topics ranging from colonial to contemporary times. In terms of content and scope, there is no collection, in or out of print, directly comparable to this one. The essays are drawn fr...

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Další autoři: Eggener, Keith L. (Editor)
Typ dokumentu: Kniha
Jazyk:Angličtina
Vydáno: London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2004
Vydání:First published
Témata:
dějiny architektury > Spojené státy americké
americká architektura
urbanismus > Spojené státy americké
history of architecture > United States
American architecture
city planning > United States
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  • National design : mercantile cities and the grid / John R. Stilgoe
  • "Modifying factors" in Native American architecture / Peter Nabokov and Robert Easton
  • Church design and construction in Spanish New Mexico / Marc Treib
  • Space : parish churches, courthouses, and dwellings in colonial Virginia / Dell Upton
  • The plantation landscape / John Michael Vlach
  • The first professional : Benjamin Henry Latrobe / Mary N. Woods
  • The Greek revival : Americanness, politics, and economics / W. Barksdale Maynard
  • Independence and the rural cottage / Gwendolyn Wright
  • First impressions : front halls and hall furnishings in Victorian America / Kenneth L. Ames
  • "A city under one roof," Chicago skyscrapers, 1880-1895 / Daniel Bluestone
  • Creating New York's nineteenth-century retail district / Mona Domosh
  • Architecture and the reinterpretation of the past in the American renaissance / Richard Guy Wilson
  • A cultural Frankenstein? The Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 / Robert W. Rydell
  • The prairie house / James F. O'Gorman
  • Wright, influence, and the world at large / Anthony Alofsin
  • The search for modernity : America, the International Style, and the Bauhaus / Margaret Kentgens-Craig
  • People who live in glass houses : Edith Farnsworth, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Philip Johnson / Alice T. Friedman
  • Mirror images : technology, consumption, and the representation of gender in American architecture since World War II / Joan Ockman
  • The Pruitt-Igoe myth / Katharine G. Bristol
  • Robert Venturi and "the return of historicism" / Neil Levine
  • The battle for the monument : the Vietnam Veterans Memorial / Mary McLeod
  • Introduction : variations on a theme park / Michael Sorkin
  • Fortress Los Angeles / Mike Davis
  • Planes of existence : Chicago and O'Hare International Airport / Marc Spiegler

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