01948nam a2200301Ia 4500003000600000005001700006008004100023010001500064020001500079040003400094041000800128050002000136082001300156100003100169245014100200264004000341300004000381336002600421337002800447338002700475350000900502500018900511500001800700505069700718520010501415650006301520650006301583pucpr20200310163825.0140807r19721959nyua          001 0 eng    a 75171490   a0385057040  apucprbengerdacpucprdpucpr0 aeng00aNA705bJ67 197200a720/.9731 aMumford, Lewisd1895-1990.10aRoots of contemporary American architectureba series of thirty-seven essays dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.htxt  aGarden City, N.Y:b Doubledayc1972  axviii, 452 p.billus.c22 cm.fbook  2rdacontentbtxtatext  2rdamediabnaunmediaded  2rdacarrierbncavolume  a4.50  a"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."  aInclude index  aContents:

List of Illustrations

Acknowledments

Rockefeller Center And Corporate Urbanisim

The american Acceptance of the International Style: George Howe and William lescaze"s Philadelphia Saving Fund Society Fund Society Building

The Domestication Of Modern:

Marcel Breuer's Ferry cooperative

Dormitory at Vassar College

The Laconic Splendor of the Metal Frame: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe' 860 Lake Shore apartments and His Seagram Building

The Encompassing Environment of Free-Form Architecture:Frank lloyd Wright"s Guggenheim Museum

What the Building"Want To Be"

Louis I.Kahns''s Richard Medical Researh Building at the University Of Pennsylvania

Notes

Glossary of Terms

Index
  aThis volume examines the influence of European modernism on American architecture from 1930 to 1960. 0aArchitecturezUnited StatesxHistoryy19th century.2Local 0aArchitecturezUnited StatesxHistoryy20th century.2Local