Beschreibung:

262 S, mit vielen Abbildungen (Fotografie) auf Tafelseiten; 22 cm. Originalleinen.

Bemerkung:

Gutes Ex. - EA. - Englisch. - INHALT : FOREWORD ---- THE BEGINNINGS ---- THE AFTERGLOW OF THE MIDDLE AGES ---- FROM JACOBEAN TO GEORGIAN ---- THE HEYDAY OF THE ENGLISH COLONIES ---- PROVINCIAL TYPES OF THE SEABOARD ---- SPANISH AND FRENCH OUTPOSTS ---- FIRST WORKS UNDER THE REPUBLIC ---- THE GREEK REVIVAL ---- ROMANTICISM AND THE GOTHIC ---- A CONFUSION OF TONGUES ---- THE STAGE OF MODERNISM : NEW ---- MATERIALS AND NEW TYPES ---- WHAT IS ARCHITECTURE? ---- THE POLES OF MODERNISM : FUNCTION AND FORM ---- THE TRIUMPH OF CLASSICAL FORM ---- COUNTER-CURRENTS ---- THE PRESENT ---- MANHATTAN ---- EPILOGUE ---- NOTES ---- INDEX. // ILLUSTRATIONEN : The steel frame-the Wainwright Building, Saint Louis - The return to classical form-the Villard houses, New York - The music of surface-the Boston Public Library - The triumph of classical form-the Court of Honor, Chicago - The music of space-the Pennsylvania waiting room, New York - The poles of modernism: the Guaranty (Prudential) Building, Buffalo; Apartments for the Century Holding Company, New York - Old material and new form-the Wainwright tomb, St Louis - New use and new form-the Larkin Factory, Buffalo - New material and new form-Unity Temple, Oak Park - The cathedral of Mammon-Woolworth Building, New York - The arrow-Bush tower, New York Masses-Hotel Shelton, New York - Mass and line-the American Radiator Building, New York - Mass and line-the New York Telephone Building, New York - The grotesque-Times Square at night - The magic mountain-Lower Manhattan from the Bay - The canyon-Lower Broadway - (u.v.a.)