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_bJ67 1972
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100 1 _aMumford, Lewis
_d1895-1990.
_9139894
245 1 0 _aRoots of contemporary American architecture
_ba series of thirty-seven essays dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
_htxt
264 _aGarden City, N.Y:
_b Doubleday
_c1972
300 _axviii, 452 p.
_billus.
_c22 cm.
_fbook
336 _2rdacontent
_btxt
_atext
337 _2rdamedia
_bn
_aunmediaded
338 _2rdacarrier
_bnc
_avolume
350 _a4.50
500 _a"An unabridged republication of the second (1959) edition ... The biographical sketches have been updated especially for this edition, and the illustrations appear for the first time."
500 _aInclude index
505 _aContents: List of Illustrations Acknowledments Rockefeller Center And Corporate Urbanisim The american Acceptance of the International Style: George Howe and William lescaze"s Philadelphia Saving Fund Society Fund Society Building The Domestication Of Modern: Marcel Breuer's Ferry cooperative Dormitory at Vassar College The Laconic Splendor of the Metal Frame: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe' 860 Lake Shore apartments and His Seagram Building The Encompassing Environment of Free-Form Architecture:Frank lloyd Wright"s Guggenheim Museum What the Building"Want To Be" Louis I.Kahns''s Richard Medical Researh Building at the University Of Pennsylvania Notes Glossary of Terms Index
520 _aThis volume examines the influence of European modernism on American architecture from 1930 to 1960.
650 0 _aArchitecture
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y19th century.
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650 0 _aArchitecture
_zUnited States
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