American Architectural History : A Contemporary Reader
by Eggener, Keith L.Pub. Date: 2004-04-09
Publisher(s): Taylor & Francis
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Summary
This book presents a collection of recent writings on architecture and urbanism in the United States, with topics ranging from colonial to contemporary times.
Author Biography
Keith L. Eggener teaches American art and architectural history at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is the author of Luis Barragan's Gardens of El Pedregal (Princeton Architectural Press) and is assistant editor of the Buildings of the United States series (Oxford University Press/Society of Architectural Historians).
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Staking claim, shaping space | p. 23 |
| National design: mercantile cities and the grid (1982) | p. 25 |
| "Modifying factors" in Native American architecture (1989) | p. 39 |
| Church design and construction in Spanish New Mexico (1993) | p. 51 |
| Space: parish churches, courthouses, and dwellings in colonial Virginia (1986) | p. 73 |
| Building the republic | p. 93 |
| The plantation landscape (1993) | p. 95 |
| The first professional: Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1999) | p. 112 |
| The Greek Revival: Americanness, politics and economics (2002) | p. 132 |
| Independence and the rural cottage (1981) | p. 142 |
| Materialism and mediation in the Gilded Age | p. 155 |
| First impressions: front halls and hall furnishings in Victorian America (1992) | p. 157 |
| "A city under one roof," Chicago skyscrapers, 1880-1895 (1991) | p. 177 |
| Creating New York's nineteenth-century retail district (1996) | p. 206 |
| Architecture and the reinterpretation of the past in the American renaissance (1983) | p. 227 |
| Visions of a new era: seeing self, seeing others, being seen | p. 247 |
| A cultural Frankenstein? The Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 (1993) | p. 249 |
| The prairie house (1991) | p. 267 |
| Wright, influence, and the world at large (1999) | p. 281 |
| The search for modernity: America, the International Style, and the Bauhaus (1999) | p. 294 |
| Shifting scenes: modernism and postmodernism | p. 313 |
| People who live in glass houses: Edith Farnsworth, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Philip Johnson (1998) | p. 316 |
| Mirror images: technology, consumption, and the representation of gender in American architecture since World War II (1996) | p. 342 |
| The Pruitt-Igoe myth (1992) | p. 352 |
| Robert Venturi and "the return of historicism" (1989) | p. 365 |
| The battle for the monument: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1989) | p. 380 |
| The city in question | p. 405 |
| Introduction: variations on a theme park (1992) | p. 407 |
| Fortress Los Angeles (1992) | p. 412 |
| Planes of existence: Chicago and O'Hare International Airport (1997) | p. 426 |
| Index | p. 433 |
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