Twentieth-century American architecture : the buildings and their makers. / txt
Carter Wiseman
- 368 p. ill. ; 25 cm. book
Include index
Include bibliography
Contents -- Introduction -- Prologue: The Themes Take Form -- Chapter 1. Lure of the Tall -- Chapter 2. Domestic Diversity -- Chapter 3. Eclecticism and the Uses of the Past -- Chapter 4. Modernism and the Abstract Ascendancy -- Chapter 5. Romantic Resistance -- Chapter 6. Power of Preservation -- Chapter 7. Outbreak of the Ordinary -- Chapter 8. "Whites," the "Grays," and Postmodernism -- Chapter 9. High-Rise, Hard Sell -- Chapter 10. Flight from the Real -- Chapter 11. Refuge vs. Community -- Endnotes -- Acknowledgments -- Index --
Presents a survey of twentieth-century American landmark buildings and their architects including Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Frank Gehry. An authoritative and richly illustrated narrative history of the buildings that shaped the American century and the architects who gave them form.
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Architecture, Modern 20th century United States. Architecture--History--20th century.--United States Architects United States History --20th century.