Forty years of american architechitecture : magic, nostalgia, and hint of greatness. / txt
New York : McGraw-Hill ' 1979Descripción: 110 p. ill. ;plans ; 31 cmTipo de contenido:- text
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- 40 years os american architecture : magic, nostalgia, and hint of greatness. / txt
- 724.60973
- NA712 F678 1979
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Includes index
Table of contents --
I. BUILDING TYPES STUDY 500: Forty years of American Architecture as explored in 499 Building Types Studies --
Magic, nostalgia and a hint of greatness in the workaday world of the Building Types Study --
A trace of the ceremony --
Antithetical types—the drive-in and the recycled building --
Evolution of patterns of living in the daily house and the vacation house --
The question of style --
II. THE BUILDING TYPES STUDY AS A NOT-TOO-CLOUDED CRYSTAL BALL –
The Prewar Years: 1937/1941 --
"Back The Attack": 1942/1945 --
On To The Future: 1945 --
III. THE SEARCH FOR BETTER BUILDINGS AT LOWER COST—FOR PRODUCTIVE BUILDINGS OF LONG-LIVED QUALITY --
1 + 1 = 3: A new equation for counting a new building's cost --
More for less: Designing low budget buildings with carefulness, thrift and economy of means --
Recycling: Another route to more productive buildings --
Adding-on can give new productive life to existing buildings --
Summing-up: A big old warehouse uncrates a rich mixture of activity and amenity --
IV. CONSERVATION IN THE CONTEXT OF CHANGE --
Preserving context at the neighborhood scale --
V. PRESERVATION AND CHANGE IN THE INDIVIDUAL BUILDING --
Wanted: Not-for profit entrepreneurs --
Found: The world as a candy box --
Sitting Ducks: Examples of endangered species which should and could be saved --
Historical and critical appraisal of the monthly feature, Building types study, published in Architectural record beginning in January 1937.