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A Concise history of american architecture / Leland M. Roth

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., c1979Description: xxvi, 400 pages : illustrations, plans ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780064384902
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • NA 705 .R68 1979
Contents:
1. The land and first homes -- 2. Transplantation in the new world: 1600-1785 -- 3. Building a new nation: 1785-1820 -- 4. The lure of the past, the promise of the future: 1820-1865 -- 5. Age of Enterprise: 1865-1885 -- 6. Urbanism and the search for order: 1885-1915 -- 7. Dichotomy: tradition and Avant Garde: 1915-1940 -- 8. Pure function, pure form: 1940-1970 -- Epilogue: Pluralism in the 1970's.
Summary: This short history of American architecture is concerned, in part, with this dualism, and it is written to introduce the student and the interested observer to the major developments that have shaped the American-built environment from the arrival of the Europeans to the present. It sketches the impact of interrelated changes in conceptual imagery, style, building technology, and town planning theory.
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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Architecture General Circulation Architecture GC NA 705 .R68 1979 c.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000008808
Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Architecture General Circulation Architecture GC NA 705 .R68 1979 c.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.2 Available NULIB000009172

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The land and first homes -- 2. Transplantation in the new world: 1600-1785 -- 3. Building a new nation: 1785-1820 -- 4. The lure of the past, the promise of the future: 1820-1865 -- 5. Age of Enterprise: 1865-1885 -- 6. Urbanism and the search for order: 1885-1915 -- 7. Dichotomy: tradition and Avant Garde: 1915-1940 -- 8. Pure function, pure form: 1940-1970 -- Epilogue: Pluralism in the 1970's.

This short history of American architecture is concerned, in part, with this dualism, and it is written to introduce the student and the interested observer to the major developments that have shaped the American-built environment from the arrival of the Europeans to the present. It sketches the impact of interrelated changes in conceptual imagery, style, building technology, and town planning theory.

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