03042nam a2200313Ia 4500003000600000005001700006008004100023020001800064020001500082040003400097050002600131082001600157100002800173245011100201264006100312300004200373336002600415337002800441338002700469500001800496504002500514505104800539520093001587650005602517650001802573650004702591650006402638650002602702pucpr20220411193445.0150602s2015    vaua     b   s001 0 eng    a9780813936437  a0813936438  apucprbengcpucprdpucprerda00aNA712.5.M63bL66 201500a720.9732231 aLongstreth, Richard W.,10aLooking beyond the icons :bmidcentury architecture, landscape, and urbanism. /cRichard Longstreth.htext  aCharlottesville :bUniversity of Virginia Press ,c2015.  ax, 271 p.bill. ;col. ;c26 cm.fbook  2rdacontentatextbtxt  2rdamediaaunmediadedbn  2rdacarrieravolumebnc  aInclude index  aInclude bibliography0 aStyle and taste -- The problem with "style" -- Taste versus history -- Some challenges of the recent past -- The difficult legacy of urban renewal -- The last landscape -- The extraordinary postwar suburb -- The lost shopping center -- Extraordinary and unknown -- New Orleans new and old: St. Frances Cabrini Church, liturgical reform, and historical association -- The power of reserve: a Christian Science complex in the heart of the nation's capital -- A modernist's tribute to Lincoln and the remembrance of the war: Richard Neutra's visitor center at Gettysburg -- Douglas Haskell's Adirondack legacy: the understated campus of North Country School and Camp Treetops -- Commonplace and taken for granted -- Assessing a vernacular landscape: a community garden in Washington, D.C. -- Nonconforming [?] modernism: the Friendship shopping center in Washington, D.C. -- The continuous transformation of Savannah's Broughton Street -- Building houses, creating community: Joseph Geeraert and the development of Twinbrook. -- Notes -- Index --  aRenowned for his extensive work in architectural history and historic preservation as an educator, scholar, activist, and public lecturer, Richard Longstreth is one of the most important architectural preservationists of the recent past. Looking beyond the Icons offers a generous and diverse selection of his writings over the past twenty-five years. The author explores a variety of topics related to midcentury (ca. 1945-70) preservation efforts, including practical, intellectual, and psychological dilemmas associated with preserving the recent past, preservation-related deficiencies in the urban planning process, and preservation of specific types of buildings. This collection offers a new understanding of the richness and variety of mid-twentieth-century U.S. architecture, landscape, and urbanism, and provides a detailed analysis of both the imperatives for and the challenges involved in preserving this legacy. 0aModern movement ArchitecturezUnited States.2Local 0aUnited States 0aCultural landscapeszUnited States.2Local 0aCity planningzUnited StatesxHistoryy20th century.2Local 0aHistoric preservation