TY - BOOK AU - Jordy, William H. TI - American buildings and their architects: progressive and academic ideals at the turn of the twentieth century AV - NA 4170 .J67 1972 PY - 1972/// CY - Garden City, New York PB - Doubleday & Company, Inc. KW - ARCHITECTURE -- UNITED STATES -- HISTORY N1 - 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 ER -