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American architecture : a thematic history / Dell Upton, UCLA.

Fine Arts Library NA705 .U775 2019
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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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