Twentieth-century American architecture : the buildings and their makers /

Twentieth-century American architecture : the buildings and their makers /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Wiseman, Carter.
Uniform title:Shaping a nation
Imprint:New York : Norton, 2000.
Description:368 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Architecture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Architecture -- United States.
Architects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Architects.
Architecture.
United States.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4363180
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ISBN:0393320545 (pbk.)
Notes:Previously published as: Shaping a nation.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-349) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Prologue: The Themes Take Form
  • Chapter 1. The Lure of the Tall
  • Chapter 2. Domestic Diversity
  • Chapter 3. Eclecticism and the Uses of the Past
  • Chapter 4. Modernism and the Abstract Ascendancy
  • Chapter 5. The Romantic Resistance
  • Chapter 6. The Power of Preservation
  • Chapter 7. The Outbreak of the Ordinary
  • Chapter 8. The "Whites," the "Grays," and Postmodernism
  • Chapter 9. High-Rise, Hard Sell
  • Chapter 10. The Flight from the Real
  • Chapter 11. Refuge vs. Community
  • Endnotes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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