On the Edge of the World
Subtitle: Four Architects in San Francisco at the Turn of the Century (Architectural History Foundation)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: April 13, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 471
ISBN-13: 9780262620598
Subjects: Architecture; History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; General; History - General; Architecture / History; 19th Century Architecture; 19th century; Buildings, structures, etc; California; Eclecticism in architecture; San Francisco; San Francisco (Calif.)
First sentence: ECLECTIC ARCHITECTURE created in the United States between the 1880s and 1930s was characterized by a new degree of inclusiveness that represented a major shift in the way American approached design.