Title & Author:

Master builders : a guide to famous American architects / edited by Diane Maddex.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Preservation Press, ©1985.

Description:

203 pages : illustrations ; 26 x 11 cm.

Series:

Building watchers series

Notes:
"National Trust for Historic Preservation."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-199) and index.
William Thornton / C.M. Harris -- Benjamin H. Latrobe / Paul F. Norton -- Charles Bulfinch / Harold Kirker -- Thomas Jefferson / William L. Beiswanger -- Robert Mills / John M. Bryan -- William Strickland / Nancy Halverson Schless -- John Haviland / Jeffrey A. Cohen -- Richard Upjohn / Phoebe Stanton -- Thomas U. Walter / Robert B. Ennis -- James Renwick / Selma Rattner -- Orson Squire Fowler / W. Ray Luce -- Alexander J. Davis / Jane B. Davies -- Andrew Jackson Downing / George B. Tatum -- Frederick Law Olmsted / Laura Wood Roper -- Pattern books / David Gebhard -- Alfred B. Mullett / Antoinette J. Lee -- Henry Hobson Richardson / Jeffrey Karl Ochsner -- Frank Furness / James F. O'Gorman -- Richard Morris Hunt / Paul R. Baker -- McKim, Mead and White / Leland M. Roth -- William Le Baron Jenney / Theodore Turak -- Burnham and Root / Thomas S. Hines -- Adler and Sullivan / Paul E. Sprague -- Cass Gilbert / Patricia Murphy -- Cram and Goodhue / Richard Oliver -- Frank Lloyd Wright / H. Allen Brooks -- Greene and Greene / Randell L. Makinson -- Bernard Maybeck / Richard Longstreth -- Julia Morgan / Sara Holmes Boutelle -- Addison Mizner / Donald W. Curl -- Irving J. Gill / David Gebhard and Bruce Kamerling -- Richard Neutra / Alson Clark -- Walter Gropius / James Marston Fitch -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe / David Spaeth -- Eero Saarinen / Peter C. Papademetriou -- Skidmore, Owings and Merrill / Albert Bush-Brown -- Louis I. Kahn / John Lobell -- Philip Johnson / Carleton Knight III -- I.M. Pei / Peter Blake -- Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown / John Andrew Gallery.
At bottom of title page: National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Summary:

This volume in the Building Watchers series of pocket guides to U.S. architecture presents the work of 32 single builders and seven partnerships in chronological order. With essays by noted architectural authorities and 350 drawings and photographs, the volume answers questions about architects and builders who have left indelible marks on American architecture. Beginning with William Thornton (1764-1828), the guide introduces America's well-known buildings, from the U.S. Capitol to the Washington Monument. It answers such questions as: which architect designed the pedestal for the statue of Liberty? Who put a Chippendale pediment atop a skyscraper? Who was the only American architect who received the Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery during the Civil War? ISBN 0-89133-111-5 (pbk.): $9.95 (For use only in the library).

ISBN:

0891331115 (pbk.)
9780891331117 (pbk.)
0471144029
9780471144021

Subject:

Architects United States.
Architects United States Biography.
Architectes États-Unis.
Architectes États-Unis Biographies.
Architects
Architekt
Biografie
United States
USA
Architecture

Form/genre:

Biographies

Added entries:

Maddex, Diane.
National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States.
Building watchers series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 139388
Call No.: ID NA736.M37; ID:85-B25673
Status: Available

Location: Library study room 139389
Call No.: ID NA736 REF; ID:85-B25673
Status: Available