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049 _aCARIBET
050 0 0 _aNA712 W57
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100 1 _aWiseman, Carter.
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245 1 0 _aTwentieth-century American architecture :
_bthe buildings and their makers. /
_cCarter Wiseman
_htxt
264 _aNew York :
_bNorton ,
_c2000.
300 _a368 p.
_bill. ;
_c25 cm.
_fbook
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
_btxt
337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediaded
_bn
338 _2rdacarrier
_avolume
_bnc
500 _aInclude index
504 _aInclude bibliography
505 _aContents -- 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 --
520 _aPresents 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.
650 0 0 _2Local
_954088
_aArchitecture, Modern
_b20th century
_cUnited States.
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_aArchitecture
_vUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
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_aArchitects
_bUnited States
_cHistory
_x20th century.
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_mW57 2000
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