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xiii, 382 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm Includes bibliographical references and index 1620-1776 : What we had to begin with ; Structural innovation begins ; Put another log on the fire ; The classic spiral -- 1776-1820 : The new republic rises ; Parthenogenesis in the building field -- Jefferson, good genii of American building ; The Roman idiom : instrument of progress -- 1820-1840 : Quiet before the storm ; Like a dream, the Grecian vista ; Athens in Appalachia ; A cloud no bigger than your hand -- 1840-1860 : The schism ; John Ruskin, romantic tory ; Horatio Greenough, Yankee democrat -- The golden leap ; The palace ; The bridge ; The tower -- 1860-1893 : The great Victorians ; The impact of Victorian technology ; False spring in Chicago ; H.H. Richardson -- 'direct, large, and simple' ; Sullivan, giant of the Midwest -- 1893-1933 : Eclipse ; The great disciple ; The wasteland ; New avenues of advance ; The housing crisis is discovered ; New prototypes at Chicago -- 1933-1945 : American building at the crossroads ; Building regulates the body's transactions ; The spectrum of health ; Building : source of illness and disease ; The way to measure building performanc

Author

Fitch, James Marston, author

Publisher

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.

Published

1948

Language

EN