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American architecture : a thematic history / Dell Upton, UCLA.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Upton, Dell, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--United States--History.
- Architecture.
- Themes, motives.
- United States.
- History.
- Architecture--United States--Themes, motives.
- Architecture--Themes, motives.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- pages cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Contents:
- Side Bar 1 Material Culture p. xxix
- 1 An American Icon p. 1
- Case Study 1 The Annie Wetmore and William Watts Sherman House p. 4
- Monticello p. 10
- Side Bar 2 Plans p. 11
- The New House p. 27
- Heirs of Monticello p. 36
- 2 Community p. 43
- Authority p. 44
- Case Study 2 Plazas p. 46
- Side Bar 3 Archaeology and Architectural History p. 55
- Architecture as Metaphor p. 58
- Citizenship p. 62
- Ancestral Homelands p. 70
- Community p. 78
- Case Study 3 Christ Church Lutheran p. 82
- Cultural Authority p. 85
- Communities p. 98
- 3 Nature p. 103
- Differing Views of the Natural World p. 103
- Country Life p. 110
- The Urbanization of Nature p. 116
- Place p. 122
- Case Study 4 The Sea Ranch p. 123
- The Primitive p. 131
- The Simple Life p. 138
- Nature as Environment p. 141
- Nature and Ethical Architecture p. 149
- Case Study 5 Aqua p. 153
- Concrete p. 165
- Case Study 6 The Harriet and Samuel Freeman House p. 170
- Mechanical Systems p. 177
- Gender, Sex, and Filth p. 180
- The Technological Sublime p. 184
- Producers and Consumers p. 188
- Case Study 7 Illinois Institute of Technology p. 192
- Consuming Architecture p. 196
- 5 Money p. 207
- Proximity p. 210
- System and Flow p. 215
- The Social Life of Work p. 223
- The Public Life of Business p. 226
- The Moral Authority of Capitalism p. 234
- The Spatial Economy of Consumption p. 237
- Consuming Architecture p. 245
- Case Study 8 The Last Company Town? p. 247
- Housing Non-Consumers p. 254
- Housing in the Age of Rising Inequality p. 259
- Style p. 265
- Architecture's Meanings p. 267
- Architects and Builders p. 278
- Why Architects? p. 280
- Who Is an Architect? p. 286
- The Architect as Artist p. 287
- Case Study 9 Wainwright Building p. 288
- Styles of the Self p. 293
- Diversity in Architecture p. 298
- Beyond Art p. 305.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190245283
- 019024528X
- OCLC:
- 1050455624
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