American architectural history
Subtitle: a contemporary reader
By: edited by Keith L. Eggener.
Contributors: Eggener, Keith.
Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 449
ISBN-13: 9780415306959; 9780415306942
Subjects: Architecture -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: National design : mercantile cities and the grid / John R. Stilgoe; title: "Modifying factors" in Native American architecture / Peter Nabokov and Robert Easton; title: Church design and construction in Spanish New Mexico / Marc Treib; title: Space : parish churches, courthouses, and dwellings in colonial Virginia / Dell Upton; title: The plantation landscape / John Michael Vlach; title: The first professional : Benjamin Henry Latrobe / Mary N. Woods; title: The Greek revival : Americanness, politics, and economics / W. Barksdale Maynard; title: Independence and the rural cottage / Gwendolyn Wright; title: First impressions : front halls and hall furnishings in Victorian America / Kenneth L. Ames; title: "A city under one roof," Chicago skyscrapers, 1880-1895 / Daniel Bluestone; title: Creating New York's nineteenth-century retail district / Mona Domosh; title: Architecture and the reinterpretation of the past in the American renaissance / Richard Guy Wilson; title: A cultural Frankenstein? The Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 / Robert W. Rydell; title: The prairie house / James F. O'Gorman; title: Wright, influence, and the world at large / Anthony Alofsin; title: The search for modernity : America, the International Style, and the Bauhaus / Margaret Kentgens-Craig; title: People who live in glass houses : Edith Farnsworth, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Philip Johnson / Alice T. Friedman; title: Mirror images : technology, consumption, and the representation of gender in American architecture since World War II / Joan Ockman; title: The Pruitt-Igoe myth / Katharine G. Bristol; title: Robert Venturi and "the return of historicism" / Neil Levine; title: The battle for the monument : the Vietnam Veterans Memorial / Mary McLeod; title: Introduction : variations on a theme park / Michael Sorkin; title: Fortress Los Angeles / Mike Davis; title: Planes of existence : Chicago and O'Hare International Airport / Marc Spiegler.