Mumford, Lewis  1895-1990. <br/><br/>
Roots of contemporary American architecture  a series of thirty-seven essays dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.  txt 

 - xviii, 452 p.  illus.  22 cm.  book 
<br/><br/> "An unabridged republication of the second (1959) edition ... The biographical sketches have been updated especially for this edition, and the illustrations appear for the first time."  Include index 
<br/><br/>Contents:<br/><br/>List of Illustrations<br/><br/>Acknowledments<br/><br/>Rockefeller Center And Corporate Urbanisim<br/><br/>The american Acceptance of the International Style: George Howe and William lescaze"s Philadelphia Saving Fund Society Fund Society Building<br/><br/>The Domestication Of Modern:<br/><br/>Marcel Breuer's Ferry cooperative<br/><br/>Dormitory at Vassar College<br/><br/>The Laconic Splendor of the Metal Frame: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe' 860 Lake Shore apartments and His Seagram Building<br/><br/>The Encompassing Environment of Free-Form Architecture:Frank lloyd Wright"s Guggenheim Museum<br/><br/>What the Building"Want To Be"<br/><br/>Louis I.Kahns''s Richard Medical Researh Building at the University Of Pennsylvania<br/><br/>Notes<br/><br/>Glossary of Terms<br/><br/>Index<br/> 
<br/><br/> This volume examines the influence of European modernism on American architecture from 1930 to 1960. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0385057040 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>75171490  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Architecture--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Architecture--History--United States--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NA705  / J67 1972 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>720/.973