Architecture, American, 16071976

American Architecture 1607-1976

This panoramic survey of American architecture will serve a variety of readers interested in American architectural, cultural, and social history as a source of information and insight on the development of the man-made landscape in the United States.

The bookâ€"illustrated with nearly 300 halftones and over 50 line drawingsâ€"provides a long perspective on the social and environmental factors that shaped American building and delineates both the assimilation of European influences (from Lord Baltimore's London-imported row houses to the work of Mies van der Rohe) and the growth of native innovations (from the climate-adapted houses of New England to the close-to-the-land prairie houses of Frank Lloyd Wright).

Marcus Whiffen wrote the first eight chapters of the book, covering the period from the Jamestown settlement of 1607 to the year 1860; Frederick Koeper then carries the history from the Civil War period to the present in the final eight chapters.

Some highlights: A comparison of early Southern and New England domestic architectural arrangementsâ€"The introduction of the Spanish style into the Southwest, a style that had already superseded Old-World models through its Mexican transmutationâ€"The influence of Wren and his contemporaries on the churches and mansions along the Eastern Seaboardâ€"The seminal work of Peter Harrisonâ€"The vogue of Palladianismâ€"The eclectic architectural practice of Thomas Jeffersonâ€"The buildings of Bulfinch in Boston and elsewhereâ€"The contributions of such immigrants as Charles L'Enfant, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, and William Thornton to the nation's new capital and Capitolâ€"The Greek revival and the Gothic, Romanesque, and Picturesque reactions to itâ€"The appearance of the Second Empire in New Yorkâ€"High Victorian architecture as a reflection of Ruskinian high-mindednessâ€"The emergence of H. H. Richardson and Richard Morris Huntâ€"The rise of the skyscraperâ€"The Beaux-Arts period and the return to classical discipline and orderâ€"Frank Lloyd Wright and "the elimination of the box"â€"Art Deco and Streamline Moderneâ€"The impact of European modernism from the 1930sâ€"Reactions against the International Style: Expressionism and Neo-Expressionism, the Neo-Formalism (also known as Neo-neo-Classicism), Brutalismâ€"The new emphasis on geometry in the 1970s as seen in recent Chicago skyscrapers and the work of I. M. Pei and Louis Kahnâ€"Signposts of future possibilities.









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