Twentieth-century American architecture : the buildings and their makers. / Carter Wiseman txt
New York : Norton , 2000Descripción: 368 p. ill. ; 25 cmTipo de contenido:- text
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- 9780393320541
- 0393320545
- 720.9730904
- NA712 W57 2000
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Carter Wiseman presents an original, readable, and literate overview of the major figures, influential movements, and landmark buildings that have defined American architecture over the past hundred years. In a survey that is "as good...as anyone is likely to write...accurate in its facts, wise and fair in its judgments" (New York Times Book Review), he focuses to a large extent on architecture's makers--the commanding figures who by force of personality and sheer artistic ability indelibly influenced its progress: Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Philip Johnson, I. M. Pei, Robert Venturi, Louis Kahn, Frank Gehry. The triumph of modernism; the growth of architectural preservation; the eclipse of the practical arts by money, theory, and abstraction; and the uncertain future of architecture in a country that celebrates both individualism and community are just some of the issues addressed in this highly praised work. Originally published in hardcover under the title Shaping a Nation.
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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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- Introduction(p. 9)
- Prologue: The Themes Take Form(p. 12)
- Chapter 1 The Lure of the Tall(p. 43)
- Chapter 2 Domestic Diversity(p. 73)
- Chapter 3 Eclecticism and the Uses of the Past(p. 107)
- Chapter 4 Modernism and the Abstract Ascendancy(p. 139)
- Chapter 5 The Romantic Resistance(p. 168)
- Chapter 6 The Power of Preservation(p. 201)
- Chapter 7 The Outbreak of the Ordinary(p. 226)
- Chapter 8 The "Whites," the "Grays," and Postmodernism(p. 244)
- Chapter 9 High-Rise, Hard Sell(p. 270)
- Chapter 10 The Flight from the Real(p. 300)
- Chapter 11 Refuge vs. Community(p. 320)
- Endnotes(p. 347)
- Acknowledgments(p. 351)
- Index(p. 353)