American architecture : a history / Leland M. Roth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roth, Leland M.

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--United States--History.

Architecture.

United States.

History.

Physical Description:

606 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Icon Editions/Westview Press, 2001.

Contents:

1. The First American Architecture: Ceremonial Enclosures and Homes 13

2. Europeans in the New World, 1600-1700: Transplanted Vernaculars 39

3. In the Latest Fashion, 1690-1785: Georgian Architecture and Vernacular Themes 69

4. A New Architecture for a New Nation, 1785-1820: Searching for Symbols of Democracy 107

5. Appropriation and Innovation, 1820-1865: Images of the Past, Visions of the Future 151

6. Architecture in the Age of Energy and Enterprise, 1865-1885: Parvenu Taste in an Expanding Economy 211

7. The Architecture of the American City and Suburb, 1885-1915: The Search for Order 265

8. Nostalgia and the Avant-Garde, 1915-1940: Architecture for a New Century 339

9. The Emergence of Modernism, 1940-1973: Social Agenda or the Latest Aesthetic? 411

10. Responses to Modernism, 1973-2000: Modernism and Its Discontents 475.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

0813336619

OCLC:

47867623