TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mumford,Lewis
TI  - Roots of contemporary American architecture: a series of thirty-seven essays dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the present
SN  - 0385057040
AV  - NA705 J67 1972
U1  - 720/.973 
PY  - 1972///
CY  - Garden City, N.Y
PB  -  Doubleday
KW  - Architecture
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Local
KW  - 20th century
N1  - "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; Contents:

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

N2  - This volume examines the influence of European modernism on American architecture from 1930 to 1960
ER  -