Main entry:

Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, 1903-1987.

Title & Author:

Architecture : nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Henry-Russell Hitchcock.

Publication:

Baltimore : Penguin Books, 1958.

Description:

xxix, 498 pages, 192 pages of plates : illustrations, plans ; 27 cm.

Series:

Pelican history of art ; Z15

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-472).
Romantic classicism around 1800 -- The Doctrine of J. N. L. Durand and its application in Northern Europe -- France and the best of the continent -- Great Dritain -- The New World -- The Picturesque and the gothic revival -- Building with iron and glass: 1790-1855 -- Second empire Paris, united Italy, and Imperial and Royal Vienna -- Second empire and cognate modes elsewhere -- High Victorian Gothic in England -- Later Neo-Gothic outside England -- Norman Shaw and his contemporaries -- H. H. Richardson and McKim, Mead & White -- The Rise of commercial architecture in England and America -- The Development of the detached house in England and America from 1800 to 1900 -- The Beginnings of the Art Nouveau: Victor Horta -- The Spread of the art Nouveau: the work of C. R. Mackintosh and Antoni Gaudi -- Modern architects of the first generation in France: Auguste Perret and Tony Garnier -- Frank Lloyd Wright and his California contemporaries -- Peter Behrens and other German architects -- The First generation in Austria, Holland, and Scandinavia -- The Early work of the second generation: Walter Gropius le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and J. J. P. Oud -- Later work of the leaders of the second generation -- Architecture called traditional in the Twentieth Century -- Architecture in the Nineteen-fifties.
Also issued online.

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 19th century.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture 19e siècle.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture, Modern.

Form/genre:

Treatises.

Added entries:

Pelican history of art ; Z15.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 13185
Call No.: 653; ID:87-B3657
Status: Available