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304 pages 24 cm, Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-294) and index, I : As the twig is bent -- The \"American\" in American architecture -- The impact of technology -- II : Giants in the land -- Architects of democracy : Jefferson and Wright -- Horatio Greenough, Yankee functionalist -- Our domesticated utopians -- The two men in Sullivan's tomb -- Frank Lloyd Wright and the fine arts -- Homage to a hero -- A lever long enough : how Gropius moved the world -- Mies and the climate of Plato -- III : The field of vision -- American pleasure garden -- Skyscraper : skin for its bones -- At peace with the past : the unfinished church -- In defense of the city -- IV : Problems of the day -- The engineer : friend or foe? -- The uses of history -- The critic's shifting view -- The esthetics of plenty

Author

Fitch, James Marston

Publisher

New York, Columbia University Press

Published

1961

Language

EN

Subjects

Architecture, History, Art