USA [[electronic resource] /] / Gwendolyn Wright

• Record Nr.: UNISA996339089703316
• Autore: Wright Gwendolyn
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Reaktion, 2008
• ISBN: 1-282-26450-8; 9786612264504; 1-86189-540-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (322 p.)
• Collana: Modern architectures in history
• Disciplina: 720.9730904
• Soggetti: Modern movement (Architecture) - United States; Architecture - United States - History - 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-304) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: USA Cover; Imprint Page; Contents; Introduction; 1 Modern Consolidation, 1865-1893; 2 Progressive Architectures, 1894-1918; 3 Electric Modernities, 1919-1932; 4 Architecture, the Public and the State, 1933-1945; 5 The Triumph of Modernism, 1946-1964; 6 Challenging Orthodoxies, 1965-1984; 7 Disjunctures and Alternatives,1985 to the Present; Epilogue; References; Select Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Photo Acknowledgements; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Gwendolyn Wright's USA is an engaging account the evolution of American architecture, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first.