The groundbreakers : architects in American history--their places and times / Charles E. Dagit, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dagit, Charles E., Jr, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architects--United States.

Architects.

Architecture and society--United States.

Architecture and society.

Physical Description:

xiii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, (USA) : Transaction Publishers, [2015]

Contents:

The American Dream

Beginnings of American Architecture

Early History: Two Colonies, Two Capitals

William Buckland: The First American Architect

The Search for an American Architecture, Thomas Jefferson, a Romantic Rationalist, North and South

Boston, the Cradle of Invention, Henry Hobson Richardson

Philadelphia, the Generator of Institutions, Frank Furness

Chicago, the Prairie Innovations, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright

Pasadena and the Railroad Hotel, the Western Legacy of Greene and Greene

San Francisco, Berkeley and the Gold Rush, Bernard Maybeck

Tulsa, Oil and Cattle, Bruce Goff

Detroit, the Economic Engine, the Automobile, Eero Sarrinen

Los Angeles and the Birth of the Film Industry, Rudolph Schindler, the Beginnings of Abstract Modernism, Mies van der Rohe

Philadelphia, the Philadelphia School, the Emergence of the Intellectual Revolution, Louis I. Kahn, Romaldo Giurgola, Robert Venturi

The International Style, The Americans: Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo, I. M. Pei, Philip Johnson

The New York Five, "the Whites," The Ultramodernists and Their Conversion, Richard Meier, Michael Graves

Architects Out of Context, Charles Moore, Robert A. M. Stern, Peter Bohlin, James Polshek, Antoine Predock, Cesar Pelli

Global Architecture and the Architecture of the Bizarre, The Tech-Fantasticism Movement, Eric Owen Moss, Frank Gehry, Los Angeles and the Culture of Fantasy

On the Brink, Kieran Timberlake, Steven Holl, Tod Williams Billie Tsien

Observations on History and the Future, The American Spirit.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781412856140 : HRD

1412856140 : HRD