If there is anything to be learned from the history of American architecture it is that it reflects the American adventure in creativity and inventiveness, and the desire to be unique and expressive
If there is anything to be learned from the history of American architecture it is that it reflects the American adventure in creativity and inventiveness, and the desire to be unique and expressive
Foreword by Peter Q. Bohlin Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The American Dream 2. Beginnings of American Architecture 3. Early History: Two Colonies Two Capitals 4. William Buckland: The First American Architect 5. The Search for an American Architecture Thomas Jefferson a Romantic Rationalist North and South 6. Boston the Cradle of Invention Henry Hobson Richardson 7. Philadelphia the Generator of Institutions Frank Furness 8. Chicago the Prairie Innovations Louis Sullivan Frank Lloyd Wright 9. Pasadena and the Railroad Hotel the Western Legacy of Greene and Greene 10. San Francisco Berkeley and the Gold Rush Bernard Maybeck 11. Tulsa Oil and Cattle Bruce Goff 12. Detroit the Economic Engine the Automobile Eero Sarrinen 13. Los Angeles and the Birth of the Film Industry Rudolph Schindler the Beginnings of Abstract Modernism Mies van der Rohe 14. Philadelphia the Philadelphia School the Emergence of the Intellectual Revolution Louis I. Kahn Romaldo Giurgola Robert Venturi 15. The International Style The Americans: Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo I. M. Pei Philip Johnson 16. The New York Five "the Whites " The Ultramodernists and Their Conversion Richard Meier Michael Graves 17. Architects Out of Context Charles Moore Robert A. M. Stern Peter Bohlin James Polshek Antoine Predock Cesar Pelli 18. Global Architecture and the Architecture of the Bizarre The Tech-Fantasticism Movement Eric Owen Moss Frank Gehry Los Angeles and the Culture of Fantasy 19. On the Brink Kieran Timberlake Steven Holl Tod Williams Billie Tsien 20. Observations on History and the Future The American Spirit Illustration Credits Illustrations Index Index
Foreword by Peter Q. Bohlin Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The American Dream 2. Beginnings of American Architecture 3. Early History: Two Colonies Two Capitals 4. William Buckland: The First American Architect 5. The Search for an American Architecture Thomas Jefferson a Romantic Rationalist North and South 6. Boston the Cradle of Invention Henry Hobson Richardson 7. Philadelphia the Generator of Institutions Frank Furness 8. Chicago the Prairie Innovations Louis Sullivan Frank Lloyd Wright 9. Pasadena and the Railroad Hotel the Western Legacy of Greene and Greene 10. San Francisco Berkeley and the Gold Rush Bernard Maybeck 11. Tulsa Oil and Cattle Bruce Goff 12. Detroit the Economic Engine the Automobile Eero Sarrinen 13. Los Angeles and the Birth of the Film Industry Rudolph Schindler the Beginnings of Abstract Modernism Mies van der Rohe 14. Philadelphia the Philadelphia School the Emergence of the Intellectual Revolution Louis I. Kahn Romaldo Giurgola Robert Venturi 15. The International Style The Americans: Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo I. M. Pei Philip Johnson 16. The New York Five "the Whites " The Ultramodernists and Their Conversion Richard Meier Michael Graves 17. Architects Out of Context Charles Moore Robert A. M. Stern Peter Bohlin James Polshek Antoine Predock Cesar Pelli 18. Global Architecture and the Architecture of the Bizarre The Tech-Fantasticism Movement Eric Owen Moss Frank Gehry Los Angeles and the Culture of Fantasy 19. On the Brink Kieran Timberlake Steven Holl Tod Williams Billie Tsien 20. Observations on History and the Future The American Spirit Illustration Credits Illustrations Index Index
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