the buildings and their makers Wiseman, Carter. creator text 2000 monographic eng

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368 p. ill. ; 25 cm. 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. 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 -- specialized Carter Wiseman Include index Include bibliography Architecture, Modern 20th century United States Architecture United States History 20th century Architects United States History 20th century NA712 W57 2000 720.9730904 9780393320541 0393320545 pucpr 150807 20220406200502.0 eng