Power and style : a critique of twentieth-century architecture in the United States /

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Author / Creator:Twombly, Robert C.
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : Hill and Wang, 1996.
Description:xiii, 130 p.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2374704
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ISBN:0809078236
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Architects and Social Place
  • Style and Social Agenda, 1890-1910
  • The Skyscraper as Icon, 1890-1920
  • Altering Habitat: New Agendas for Residential Design, 1900-1940
  • The Social Transformation of Modernism, 1922-1940
  • Hegemonic Modernism, 1940-1970s
  • Modernism's Failure: Public Housing, 1949-1970s
  • Noncommittal Eclecticism, 1970-1990s
  • At Century's End.