American architecture : a history / Leland M. Roth.

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Roth, Leland M.

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American architecture : a history / Leland M. Roth.

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606 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. The first American architecture : ceremonial enclosures and homes -- 2. Europeans in the new world, 1600-1700 : transplanted vernaculars -- 3. In the latest fashion, 1690-1785 : Georgian architecture and vernacular themes -- 4. A new architecture for a new nation, 1785-1820 : searching for symbols of democracy -- 5. Appropriation and innovation, 1820-1865 : images of the past, visions of the future -- 6. Architecture in the age of energy and enterprise, 1865-1885 : Parvenu taste in an expanding economy -- 7. The architecture of the American city and suburb, 1885-1915 : the search for order -- 8. Nostalgia and the avant-garde, 1915-1940 : architecture for a new century -- 9. The emergence of modernism, 1940-1973 : social agenda or the latest aesthetic -- 10. Responses to modernism, 1973-2000 : modernism and its discontents.
Also issued online.

Summary:

"American Architecture introduces the major developments that shaped the American-built environment from before the arrival of the Europeans to the present, from ceremonial enclosures and homes to modernism and its discontents. On both the high-style architecture of aspiration and the everyday vernacular architecture, Leland Roth presents the historical impact of changes in conceptual imagery, style, building technology, landscape design, and town-planning theory. There is also extensive historical coverage of 17th- and 18th-century architecture and regional style. Throughout Roth charts the gradual development of towns, cities, and suburbs along with the social, cultural, and political forces that shaped their growth."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

0813336619
9780813336619
0813336627 (pbk.)
9780813336626 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture United States History.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire.
Architecture.
Architektur
Geschichte
Bouwkunst.
História da arquitetura Estados unidos.
United States.
USA

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History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 263115
Call No.: BIB 194229
Status: Available

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