America Builds: Source Documents in American Architecture and Planning

ISBN-13: 9780367152611 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 676 str.

Leland M. Roth

Opis

This volume, like my Concise History of American Architecture, deals with all the spatial and environmental arts. Conceived as a companion volume to the Concise History, this similarly surveys architecture, landscape architecture, and planning from the arrival of European settlers up to 1980.

Spis treści

I. THE LAND AND FIRST HOMES. II. TRANSPLANTATIONS IN THE NEW WORLD, III. BUILDING A NEW NATION, IV. THE LURE OF THE PAST, THE PROMISE OF THE FUTURE, V. AGE OF ENTERPRISE, VI. THE SE ARCH FOR ORDER, VII. DICHOTOMY: TR ADITION AND AVANT-GARDE, VIII. PURE FUNCTION, PURE FORM, EPILOGUE: WHERE ARE WE AT?

O autorze

Leland M. Roth is Marion Dean Ross Professor of Architectural History Emeritus at the University of Oregon at Eugene. Dr. Roth is the author of Understanding Architecture (Westview Press, 2013), McKim, Mead & White, Architects (Harper & Row, 1983), America Builds (Harper & Row, 1983), A Concise History of American Architecture (Harper & Row, 1979), and other works.