American architectural history : a contemporary reader /

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"This book presents a collection of recent writings on architecture and urbanism in the United States, with topics ranging from colonial to contemporary times"--Provided by publisher

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Eggener, Keith
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Temas:
Architecture > United States > History.
Architecture > États-Unis > Histoire.
ARCHITECTURE > Regional.
ARCHITECTURE > Criticism.
ARCHITECTURE > History > General.
Architecture
Bouwkunst.
United States
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • National design : mercantile cities and the grid / John R. Stilgoe
  • "Modifying factors" in Native American architecture / Peter Nabokov and Robert Easton
  • Church design and construction in Spanish New Mexico / Marc Treib
  • Space : parish churches, courthouses, and dwellings in colonial Virginia / Dell Upton
  • The plantation landscape / John Michael Vlach
  • The first professional : Benjamin Henry Latrobe / Mary N. Woods
  • The Greek revival : Americanness, politics and economics / W. Barksdale Maynard
  • Independence and the rural cottage / Gwendolyn Wright
  • First impressions : front halls and hall furnishings in Victorian America / Kenneth L. Ames
  • "A city under one roof," Chicago skyscrapers, 1880-1895 / Daniel Bluestone
  • Creating New York's nineteenth-century retail district / Mona Domosh
  • Architecture and the reinterpretation of the past in the American renaissance / Richard Guy Wilson
  • A cultural Frankenstein? The Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 / Robert W. Rydell
  • The prairie house / James F. O'Gorman
  • Wright, influence, and the world at large / Anthony Alofsin
  • The search for modernity : America, the International Style, and the Bauhaus / Margaret Kentgens-Craig
  • People who live in glass houses : Edith Farnsworth, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Philip Johnson / Alice T. Friedman
  • Mirror images : technology, consumption, and the representation of gender in American architecture since World War II / Joan Ockman
  • The Pruitt-Igoe myth / Katharine G. Bristol
  • Robert Venturi and "the return of historicism" / Neil Levine
  • The battle for the monument : the Vietnam Veterans Memorial / Mary McLeod
  • Introduction : variations on a theme park / Michael Sorkin
  • Fortress Los Angeles / Mike Davis
  • Planes of existence : Chicago and O'Hare International Airport / Marc Spiegler.

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