American architectural history : a contemporary reader / / edited by Keith L. Eggener.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Eggener, Keith.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xiv, 449 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

• National design : mercantile cities and the grid / John R. Stilgoe
• "Modifying factors" in Native American architecture / Peter Nabokov and Robert Easton
• Church design and construction in Spanish New Mexico / Marc Treib
• Space : parish churches, courthouses, and dwellings in colonial Virginia / Dell Upton
• The plantation landscape / John Michael Vlach
• The first professional : Benjamin Henry Latrobe / Mary N. Woods
• The Greek revival : Americanness, politics, and economics / W. Barksdale Maynard
• Independence and the rural cottage / Gwendolyn Wright
• First impressions : front halls and hall furnishings in Victorian America / Kenneth L. Ames
• "A city under one roof," Chicago skyscrapers, 1880-1895 / Daniel Bluestone
• Creating New York's nineteenth-century retail district / Mona Domosh
• Architecture and the reinterpretation of the past in the American renaissance / Richard Guy Wilson
• A cultural Frankenstein? The Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 / Robert W. Rydell
• The prairie house / James F. O'Gorman
• Wright, influence, and the world at large / Anthony Alofsin
• The search for modernity : America, the International Style, and the Bauhaus / Margaret Kentgens-Craig
• People who live in glass houses : Edith Farnsworth, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Philip Johnson / Alice T. Friedman
• Mirror images : technology, consumption, and the representation of gender in American architecture since World War II / Joan Ockman
• The Pruitt-Igoe myth / Katharine G. Bristol
• Robert Venturi and "the return of historicism" / Neil Levine
• The battle for the monument : the Vietnam Veterans Memorial / Mary McLeod
• Introduction : variations on a theme park / Michael Sorkin
• Fortress Los Angeles / Mike Davis
• Planes of existence : Chicago and O'Hare International Airport / Marc Spiegler.