Main entry:

Fitch, James Marston.

Title & Author:

American building; the forces that shape it.

Publication:

Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, 1948.

Description:

382 pages illustrations

Notes:
Bibliographical footnotes.
1620-1776 : What we had to begin with ; Structural innovation begins ; Put another log on the fire ; The classic spiral -- 1776-1820 : The new republic rises ; Parthenogenesis in the building field -- Jefferson, good genii of American building ; The Roman idiom : instrument of progress -- 1820-1840 : Quiet before the storm ; Like a dream, the Grecian vista ; Athens in Appalachia ; A cloud no bigger than your hand -- 1840-1860 : The schism ; John Ruskin, romantic tory ; Horatio Greenough, Yankee democrat -- The golden leap ; The palace ; The bridge ; The tower -- 1860-1893 : The great Victorians ; The impact of Victorian technology ; False spring in Chicago ; H.H. Richardson -- 'direct, large, and simple' ; Sullivan, giant of the Midwest -- 1893-1933 : Eclipse ; The great disciple ; The wasteland ; New avenues of advance ; The housing crisis is discovered ; New prototypes at Chicago -- 1933-1945 : American building at the crossroads ; Building regulates the body's transactions ; The spectrum of health ; Building : source of illness and disease ; The way to measure building performance -- Skeleton and Skin ; The function of structure ; Steel, the mathematician's material ; Concrete, the original plastic ; Wood, the universal material ; The line of increasing efficiency ; Straws in the wind -- Fair and warmer ; Heat -- better to lose than to gain it ; Thermal continuity is important to health ; How buildings are heated and cooled ; Radiant heating ; New sources of heat and cold -- Pure as the air you breathe ; Some atmospheric arithmetic ; Impurities in suspension ; "Oh, say, can you see' ; What we see and how ; Modern light sources ; The window reconsidered -- Silence : men at work ; What we hear and how ; How sound behaves ; Buildings as sonic instruments -- The conquest of space and gravity ; Some non-architectural aspects of fatigue ; Redesign of the tools ; The machine in the kitchen ; When the bathroom comes of age ; The integration of the environments ; Building design and the micro-climate ; Harnessing the sun -- Plan, the instrument of policy ; A modern system of plan classification ; The multiple use of space ; Mechanization implements flexibility ; Mobility and plan ; The dialectic of urbanism -- The production of buildings ; Prefabrication -- the paradox -- Toward a democratic esthetic ; Good taste and the populace ; Confluent tendencies ; The problems ahead.

Subject:

Architecture United States.
Building United States.
Architecture États-Unis.
Construction États-Unis.
Architecture.
Building.
United States.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 74312
Call No.: 593; ID:86-B12759
Status: Available