Title & Author:

The origins of modern architecture : selected essays from "architectural record" / edited and with an introduction by Eric Uhlfelder.

Publication:

Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, [1998]
©1998

Description:

xix, 299 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-299).
The architect and the critic / H.W. Desmond -- Twenty-five years of American Architecture / A.D.F. Hamlin -- The art of the high building / Barr Ferree -- An Architect's opinion of "L'Art Nouveau" / Hector Guimard -- In the cause of architecture / Frank Lloyd Wright -- Skeleton construction / William J. Fyer, Jr. -- Architecture in the United States / Claude Bragdon -- The new architecture / A.C. David -- A type of original American architecture / Vera O. Wallingford -- The value of the curve in street architecture / H.A. Caparn -- A comparison of modern American Architecture with that of European cities / Stanley D. Adshead -- Modern Architecture: a conversation / Herry W. Desmond -- Baron Hausmann and the topographical transformation of Paris under Napoleon III, part III / Edward R. Smith -- Impressions of Budapest / Schuyler M. Meyer -- "Personal archtecture" : the evolution of an idea in the House of H.C. Mercer, Esq. Doylestown, Pa. / W.T. Taylor -- The campanile of St. Mark's at Venice : an authentic account of the circumstances that lead to its fall / Pietro Saccado -- Plans for the Lincoln Memorial, notes and comments -- The Fagan Building at St. Louis, architectural aberrations -- The Pennsylvania's New York Station, notes and comments -- "The Crossway," civic improvement for New York City, notes and comments -- The "Flatiron" or Fuller Building, architectural appreciations -- The Dorilton, architectural appreciations -- A conversation with Henry Janeway Hardenbergh / Sadakichi Hartmann -- Intimate letters of Stanford White / edited by Homer Saint-Gardens -- The wild men of Paris / Gelett Burgess -- Paris school days: how the student lives and works at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. III. The Charrette / George S. Chappell -- The architect in recent fiction / Herbert Croly.
Also issued online.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0486401456 (paperback)
9780486401454 (paperback)
048629188X (pbk.)
9780486291888 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture United States History 19th century.
Architecture United States History 20th century.
Architecture Europe History 19th century.
Architecture Europe History 20th century.
Architecture Europe 19th century.
Architecture Europe 20th century.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture Europe 19e siècle.
Architecture Europe 20e siècle.
Architecture.
Architecture, Modern 19th century Europe.
Europe.
United States.

Form/genre:

Anthologies.
History.

Added entries:

Uhlfelder, Eric.
Architectural record.

Modern architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 212922
Call No.: NA710 .O7 1998
Status: Available