Main entry:

Williamson, Roxanne, 1928- author.

Title & Author:

American architects and the mechanics of fame / Roxanne Kuter Williamson.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 1991.

Description:

286 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-268) and index.
A network of connections -- The time as well as the place -- A consensus of who is famous and who is not: the index of fame -- Louis Sullivan -- Frank Lloyd Wright -- Henry Hobson Richardson -- McKim, Mead & White -- Latrobe and his descendants -- The Bulfinch and Renwick lines -- The European immigrant masters in the twentieth century -- Louis Kahn -- The loners -- Connections: family, friends, schools -- Self-promotion and publicity -- Other, weaker patterns -- The historians as fame makers -- Afterword on the fame-making system.

ISBN:

0292751214 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780292751217 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780292729223
0292729227

Subject:

Architects Selection and appointment United States.
Architects and patrons United States.
Architectural services marketing United States.
Architectes Sélection et nomination États-Unis.
Architectes et mécènes États-Unis.
Architecture, Services d' Marketing États-Unis.
Services d'architecture Marketing États-Unis.
Architects and patrons.
Architects Selection and appointment.
Architectural services marketing.
Architekt
Erfolg
Architecten.
Reputatie.
Leermeesters.
Architects -- United States -- Selection and appointment.
United States.
USA
Architects United States Selection and appointment

Holdings:

Location: Library main 65636
Call No.: ID:91-B245
Status: Available