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Yale University Press
Language
English

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Subjects
American Art, Architecture, Civilization, Architecture, united states, Art, american, United states, civilization, 20th century, History
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United States
Times
20th century
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Table of Contents

Part I. American history and visual culture. Two temperaments in history: scientific and literary (1951)
American architecture between World's Fairs: Richardson, Sullivan, and McKim (1983)
Four approaches to regionalism in the visual arts of the 1930s (1977)
The Tennessee Valley Authority: lessons for the present and future (1993)
Fiasco at Willow Run (1943)
Part II. The arc of European modernism. The symbolic essence of modern European architecture of the twenties and its continuing influence (1963)
The international style in the 1930s (1965)
<"I am alone": Le Corbusier, bathrooms, and airplanes (1983)
William Lescaze reconsidered (1984)
The aftermath of the Bauhaus in America: Gropius, Mies, and Breuer (1968)
Part III. The historian as critic: formal perspectives on American architecture after 1945. Seagram assessed (1958)
Medical research building for the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1961)
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; Library, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire (1974)
Robert Venturi and the decorated shed (1985)
Bank of China tower (1991).

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A Buell Center/Columbia Book of Architecture."

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Dewey Decimal Class
720/.973/0904
Library of Congress
NA712 .J67 2005, NA712.J67 2005

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Pagination
p. cm.

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Open Library
OL3294160M
Internet Archive
symbolicessenceo0000jord
ISBN 10
0300094493
LCCN
2004014699
OCLC/WorldCat
55730041
Library Thing
5408632
Goodreads
1465299

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