LEADER 04208oam 2200613I 450 001 9910449969603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-134-39925-1 010 $a0-203-68376-5 010 $a1-280-02548-4 010 $a0-203-64368-2 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203643686 035 $a(CKB)1000000000247688 035 $a(EBL)200277 035 $a(OCoLC)271808225 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000288640 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11222835 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000288640 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10383924 035 $a(PQKB)11462964 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC200277 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL200277 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10101287 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL2548 035 $a(OCoLC)56551287 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000247688 100 $a20180706d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aAmerican architectural history $ea contemporary reader /$fedited by Keith L. Eggener 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group,$d2004. 215 $a1 online resource (464 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-30695-7 311 $a0-415-30694-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aNational design : mercantile cities and the grid / John R. Stilgoe -- "Modifying factors" in Native American architecture / Peter Nabokov and Robert Easton -- Church design and construction in Spanish New Mexico / Marc Treib -- Space : parish churches, courthouses, and dwellings in colonial Virginia / Dell Upton -- The plantation landscape / John Michael Vlach -- The first professional : Benjamin Henry Latrobe / Mary N. Woods -- The Greek revival : Americanness, politics, and economics / W. Barksdale Maynard -- Independence and the rural cottage / Gwendolyn Wright -- First impressions : front halls and hall furnishings in Victorian America / Kenneth L. Ames -- "A city under one roof," Chicago skyscrapers, 1880-1895 / Daniel Bluestone -- Creating New York's nineteenth-century retail district / Mona Domosh -- Architecture and the reinterpretation of the past in the American renaissance / Richard Guy Wilson -- A cultural Frankenstein? The Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 / Robert W. Rydell -- The prairie house / James F. O'Gorman -- Wright, influence, and the world at large / Anthony Alofsin -- The search for modernity : America, the International Style, and the Bauhaus / Margaret Kentgens-Craig -- People who live in glass houses : Edith Farnsworth, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Philip Johnson / Alice T. Friedman -- Mirror images : technology, consumption, and the representation of gender in American architecture since World War II / Joan Ockman -- The Pruitt-Igoe myth / Katharine G. Bristol -- Robert Venturi and "the return of historicism" / Neil Levine -- The battle for the monument : the Vietnam Veterans Memorial / Mary McLeod -- Introduction : variations on a theme park / Michael Sorkin -- Fortress Los Angeles / Mike Davis -- Planes of existence : Chicago and O'Hare International Airport / Marc Spiegler. 330 $aThis major new text presents a collection of recent writings on architecture and urbanism in the United States, with topics ranging from colonial to contemporary times. In terms of content and scope, there is no collection, in or out of print, directly comparable to this one. The essays are drawn from the past twenty years' of publishing in the field, arranged chronologically from colonial to contemporary and accessible in thematic groupings, contextualized and introduced by Keith Eggener.Drawing together 24 illustrated essays by major and emerging scholars in the field, America 606 $aArchitecture$zUnited States$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aArchitecture$xHistory. 676 $a720/.973 686 $a21.62$2bcl 701 $aEggener$b Keith$0958581 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910449969603321 996 $aAmerican architectural history$92172151 997 $aUNINA