Monuments to Money: The Architecture of American Banks

ISBN-13: 9780786464135 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 358 str.

Charles Belfoure

Opis

To understand the evolution of bank design, it is also necessary to grasp the fundamentals of America's banking and financial history, which go hand-in-hand with the creation of bank architecture. While the worldwide evolution of architectural styles played a major factor in the way banks look, developments in the financial history of the nation--depressions, panics, government monetary and banking policy--also played a critical role.