American architecture : a history, Leland M. Roth, University of Oregon, Amanda C. Roth Clark, Whitworth University

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American architecture : a history, Leland M. Roth, University of Oregon, Amanda C. Roth Clark, Whitworth University

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a history

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Leland M. Roth, University of Oregon, Amanda C. Roth Clark, Whitworth University

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• American architecture : a history

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• Boulder, CO, Westview Press, 2016

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 613-629) and index

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• 1. The first American architecture: ceremonial enclosures and homes : A vast and varied continent : Geological features ; Bioclimatic zones -- The first Americans : Archaic and prehistoric Eastern Woodland ; Archaic and prehistoric Plains culture ; Archaic and prehistoric Western desert cultures -- The historical or post-contact cultures : Eastern Woodland region ; Southeast Woodland region ; Great Plains region ; Columbia River Plateau ; Pacific Coast region ; California region ; Desert Southwest region -- Reinvigorated architecture for a new millennium -- 2. Europeans in the new world, 1600-1700: transplanted vernaculars : Spanish settlements -- French settlements -- Swedish settlement -- Dutch settlements -- English settlements : New England ; The Mid-Atlantic English colonies ; The Southern English colonies -- Town planning in the seventeenth century -- 3. In the latest fashion, 1690-1785: Georgian architecture and vernacular traditions : Georgian colonial town planning -- Early Georgian architecture, 1690-1750 : Southern Tidewater colonies ; Middle colonies ; Northern colonies ; Early Georgian churches and public buildings -- Late Georgian architecture, 1750-1785 : Northern colonies ; Middle colonies ; Furniture and interior design ; Southern colonies ; Late Georgian churches and public buildings ; Gentlemen-amateurs and builder-designers ; Peter Harrison ; Vernacular traditions -- 4. A new architecture for a new nation, 1785-1820: searching for symbols of democracy : Eclecticism -- Planning the national capitol -- Samuel McIntire -- Charles Bulfinch -- Asher Benjamin -- Benjamin Henry Latrobe -- Other influences and émigré architects -- Thomas Jefferson -- American urban growth -- Trans-Appalachian development and vernacular architecture -- 5. Appropriation and innovation, 1820-1865: images of the past, visions of the future : The Greek revival : Greek revival temple houses ; Greek revival vernacular ; State capitols ; The United States Capitol expanded ; Grecian public buildings -- The Gothic revival : Gothic revival houses -- A miscellany of historic styles : Romanesque ; Early Medieval ; Egyptian ; Renaissance ; The Italian villa and the Italianate style -- Commercial and industrial building : The impact of industry and the exploitation of cast iron -- The octagon style -- Urban growth : Urban open space: the parks movement ; The appearance of the suburb -- Vernacular building -- In search of an American architecture
• 6. Architecture in the age of energy and enterprise, 1865-1885: parvenu taste in an expanding economy : Architectural education -- Creative eclecticism -- Second Empire Baroque -- High Victorian Gothic -- Frank Furness -- Richard Morris Hunt -- Industry buildings and housing : Pullman, Illinois -- Model urban tenements -- Frederick Law Olmsted and the Public Parks Movement -- American urban growth, 1865-1885 -- The emergence of American architectural publishing -- The Centennial Exposition, 1876 -- Suburban and country residences : The Eastlake style ; The stick style ; The Queen Anne style ; The shingle style -- Transportation and the impact of technology : The high-rise office building -- Henry Hobson Richardson -- 7. The architecture of the American city and suburb, 1885-1915: the search for order : Women and the American architectural profession -- The impact of the École des Beaux-arts -- Commercial architecture: the invention of the office skyscraper : William Le Baron Jenney ; Burnham and Roat ; Adler and Sullivan ; Holabird and Roche ; Influence of Chicago architects: the Chicago School ; The New York skyscraper -- Classicism and the search for order : Richard Morris Hunt ; McKim, Mead & White -- American parallels to Art Nouveau and the Arts and Crafts Movement -- Frank Lloyd Wright : The Prairie School -- The San Francisco Bay area tradition : Greene & Greene ; Irving Gill -- Urban planning : The World's Columbian Exposition ; The City Beautiful Movement -- Housing reform : Urban tenements ; Industrial workers' communities -- Vernacular architecture : Barns and farmhouses -- 8. Nostalgia and the avant-garde, 1915-1940: architecture for a new century : The First World War and industrial housing -- The suburb and the automobile : Early automobile suburbs -- The architecture of reassurance: historicism in the Jazz Age : Suburban houses ; The "period house" ; The colonial revival and the creation of "Colonial Williamsburg" ; Ralph Adams Cram and the Gothic revival -- Movie palaces: the architecture of illusion -- American modernism : Bertram Goodhue ; Albert Kahn ; Paul Philippe Cret -- Skyscrapers, 1915-1940 : The "traditional" skyscraper ; The modern skyscraper -- Art Deco and Moderne : The Art Deco skyscraper ; Rockefeller Center -- Frank Lloyd Wright, the middle years -- Rudolf Schindler and Richard Neutra -- Urban planning and housing -- The Great Depression
• 9. The emergence of American Modernism, 1940-1973: social agenda or the latest aesthetic? : Housing war workers -- Modernism : The corporate office tower ; Equitable Building, Portland, Oregon ; Lever House, New York City ; Lake Shore Drive apartments, Chicago ; Seagram Building ; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill ; The initial giant office towers ; Other kinds of forms: the domes of Buckminster Fuller -- The modern house : Two horizontal glass boxes -- Form follows form : Guggenheim Museum ; Eero Saarinen -- Silence and light: the architecture of Louis I. Kahn -- Heroic expressionism -- Alvar Aalto in America -- Urbanism: cities and suburbs ; American automobile culture ; Freeways ; Levittown ; Shopping centers -- Urban renewal : Soulless social amelioration: the saga of public housing ; Urban renewal at work: Lincoln Center, New York City ; Urban renewal at work: plazas ; Internal public spaces ; Repopulating the city centers ; New towns -- Preservation: the uses of the past -- 10. Late modernism and alternatives, 1972-2001 : Rethinking modernism and its shortcomings : The failures of Modernism -- Historic preservation -- Contextualism -- The beginnings of postmodernism : Robert Venturi and Charles Moore ; Whites and grays -- Postmodern classicism : Ironic classicism ; Latent classicism ; Fundamentalist classicism ; Canonic or archaeological classicism ; Modern traditionalism -- Late expressionist/heroic modernism :- Johnson & Burgee ; Helmut Jahn ; César Pelli ; Richard Meier -- Frank Gehry and late expressionism : Early years ; Guggenheim Bilbao ; Gehry and new museums -- Deconstructivism -- Regionalism -- The cult of the high-profile architect -- The 1980s and 1990s: a public architecture of self-absorption : Urban and suburban housing ; The new urbanism begins -- Making communities -- Green architecture: the first shoots -- 11. Looking at the future: into the twenty-first century : Slender towers -- The age of computer architecture -- Starchitects/global architects -- Architectural activity in the twenty-first century -- The long life of traditionalism -- Green architecture : LEED standards ; Green roofs ; Green architecture and sustainable environments -- Epilogue -- Glossary

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26 cm

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Second edition.

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xlii, 673 pages, 32 pages of plates

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9780813349688

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2015033799

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illustrations (some color), plans

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