American buildings and their architects : progressive and academic ideals at the turn of the twentieth century / William H. Jordy

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc., c1972Description: xxi, 420 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • NA 4170 .J67 1972
Contents:
List of illustrations -- A prefatory word and acknowledgments -- 1. Masonry block and metal skeleton: Chicago and the "commercial style" -- 2. Functionalism as fact and symbol: Louis Sullivan's commercial buildings, tombs, and banks -- 3. The organic ideal: Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie house -- 4. Craftmanship as structural elaboration: Charles and Henry Greene's gamble house -- 5. Craftmanship and grandeur in an architecture of mood: Bernard Maybeck's palace of fine arts and first church of Christ scientist -- 7. The beaux-arts renaissance: Charles McKim's Boston Public Library -- Notes -- Glossary of terms -- Index.
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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Architecture General Circulation Architecture GC NA 4170 .J67 1972 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000017083

Includes index.

List of illustrations -- A prefatory word and acknowledgments -- 1. Masonry block and metal skeleton: Chicago and the "commercial style" -- 2. Functionalism as fact and symbol: Louis Sullivan's commercial buildings, tombs, and banks -- 3. The organic ideal: Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie house -- 4. Craftmanship as structural elaboration: Charles and Henry Greene's gamble house -- 5. Craftmanship and grandeur in an architecture of mood: Bernard Maybeck's palace of fine arts and first church of Christ scientist -- 7. The beaux-arts renaissance: Charles McKim's Boston Public Library -- Notes -- Glossary of terms -- Index.

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