TwentiethCentury American Architecture: The Buildings and Their Makers,New

TwentiethCentury American Architecture: The Buildings and Their Makers,New

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Brand: W. W. Norton & Company
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An authoritative and richly illustrated narrative history of the buildings that shaped the American century and the architects who gave them form. Carter Wiseman presents an original, readable, and literate overview of the major figures, influential movements, and landmark buildings that have defined American architecture over the past hundred years. In a survey that is 'as goodas anyone is likely to writeaccurate in its facts, wise and fair in its judgments' (New York Times Book Review), he focuses to a large extent on architecture's makersthe commanding figures who by force of personality and sheer artistic ability indelibly influenced its progress: Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Philip Johnson, I. M. Pei, Robert Venturi, Louis Kahn, Frank Gehry. The triumph of modernism; the growth of architectural preservation; the eclipse of the practical arts by money, theory, and abstraction; and the uncertain future of architecture in a country that celebrates both individualism and community are just some of the issues addressed in this highly praised work. Originally published in hardcover under the title Shaping a Nation. 250 illustrations

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