Looking beyond the icons : midcentury architecture, landscape, and urbanism /
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| Author / Creator: | Longstreth, Richard W., author. |
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| Uniform title: | Essays. Selections |
| Imprint: | Charlottesville [Virginia] : University of Virginia Press, 2015. ©2015 |
| Description: | x, 271 pages ; 27 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10158027 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I. Style and Taste
- 1. The Problem with "Style"
- 2. Taste versus History
- II. Some Challenges of the Recent Past
- 3. The Difficult Legacy of Urban Renewal
- 4. The Last Landscape
- 5. The Extraordinary Postwar Suburb
- 6. The Lost Shopping Center
- III. Extraordinary and Unknown
- 7. New Orleans New and Old: St. Frances Cabrini Church, Liturgical Reform, and Historical Association
- 8. The Power of Reserve: A Christian Science Complex in the Heart of the Nation's Capital
- 9. A Modernist's Tribute to Lincoln and Remembrance of the Civil War: Richard Neutra's Visitor Center at Gettysburg
- 10. Douglas Haskell's Adirondack Legacy: The Understated Campus of North Country School and Camp Treetops
- IV. Commonplace and Taken for Granted
- 11. Assessing a Vernacular Landscape: A Community Garden in Washington, D.C.
- 12. Nonconforming [?] Modernism: The Friendship Shopping Center in Washington, D.C.
- 13. The Continuous Transformation of Savannah's Broughton Street
- 14. Building Houses, Creating Community: Joseph Geeraert and the Development of Twinbrook
- Notes
- Index
