| Description |
xiv, 449 p. : ill. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Architecture -- United States -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Eggener, Keith.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
0415306949 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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0415306957 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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