American Architectural History : A Contemporary Reader

ISBN-13: 9780415306942 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 449 str.

Keith Eggener

Opis

This major new text features 24 essays on North American architectural and urban history. The book concentrates on recent writings by historians of American architecture and urbanism. The essays are drawn from the past twenty years' of publishing in the field, arranged chronologically from colonial to contemporary and accessible in thematic groupings. The editor provides a comprehensive introductory essay and sets the book's themes in context.

Recenzje

'Stimulating ... [a] valuable sampler of new scholarship ... a welcome supplement to existing surveys and a challenge to scholars and publishers alike to go further in retelling the history of our built environment.' - Journal of Architectural Education

Spis treści

Part 1: Staking Claim, Shaping Space  Part 2: Building the Republic  Part 3: Materialism and Mediation in the Gilded Age  Part 4: Visions of a New Era: Seeing Self, Seeing Others, Being Seen  Part 5: Shifting Scenes: Modernism and Postmodernism  Part 6: The City in Question

O autorze

Keith Eggener, Keith Eggener