TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wiseman,Carter
TI  - Twentieth-century American architecture: the buildings and their makers. 
SN  - 9780393320541
AV  - NA712 W57 2000
U1  - 720.9730904 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New York
PB  - Norton
KW  - Local
KW  - Architecture, Modern
KW  - 20th century
KW  - United States
KW  - Architecture
KW  - History
KW  - Architects
N1  - 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 --
N2  - 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
ER  -