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050			_aNA 705 .R68 1979
100			_aRoth, Leland M. _eauthor
245		2	_aA Concise history of american architecture / _cLeland M. Roth
260			_aNew York : _bHarper & Row Publishers, Inc., _cc1979
300			_axxvi, 400 pages : _billustrations, plans ; _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_a1. 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.
520			_aThis 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.
650			_aARCHITECTURE -- UNITED STATES
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