Architecture and Society : : Selected Essays of Henry Van Brunt / / ed. by William A. Coles.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Art & Architecture eBook Package
• HerausgeberIn: Coles, William A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1969
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (562 p.) :; 203 halftones

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Cast Iron in Decorative Architecture -- Architectural Reform -- Translator's Introduction to the Discourses on Architecture of Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc -- Growth of Conscience in the Decorative Arts -- The New Architecture at Albany -- The New Dispensation of Monumental Art -- Eidlitz's Nature of Art -- The Personal Equation in Renaissance Architecture -- On the Present Condition and Prospects of Architecture -- Henry Hobson Richardson, Architect -- Architecture in the West -- The Washington Monument -- The Architecture at Harvard -- John Wellborn Root -- Architecture at the World's Columbian Exposition -- The Historic Styles and Modern Architecture -- The Columbian Exposition and American Civilization -- The Growth of Characteristic Architectural Style in the United States -- Richard Morris Hunt -- Classic Architecture -- Two Interpreters of National Architecture -- A Letter on the Aesthetics of Bridge Construction -- Illustrations -- Bibliography of Writings by Henry Van Brunt -- Notes -- Index