ABSTRACT
This major new text presents a collection of recent writings on architecture and urbanism in the United States, with topics ranging from colonial to contemporary times. In terms of content and scope, there is no collection, in or out of print, directly comparable to this one. The essays are drawn from the past twenty years' of publishing in the field, arranged chronologically from colonial to contemporary and accessible in thematic groupings, contextualized and introduced by Keith Eggener.
Drawing together 24 illustrated essays by major and emerging scholars in the field, American Architectural History is a valuable resource for students of the history of American art, architecture, urbanism, and material culture.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |22 pages
Keith L. Eggener Introduction
part |2 pages
Part 1
chapter |22 pages
1993 Marc Treib Church design and construction in Spanish New Mexico
chapter |20 pages
1986 Dell Upton Space
part |2 pages
Part 2
chapter |17 pages
1993 John Michael Vlach The plantation landscape
chapter |13 pages
1981 Gwendolyn Wright Independence and the rural cottage
part |2 pages
Part 3
chapter |20 pages
1992 Kenneth L. Ames First impressions: front halls and hall furnishings in
part |2 pages
Part 4
chapter |14 pages
1991 James F. O’Gorman The prairie house
chapter |13 pages
1999 Anthony Alofsin Wright, influence, and the world at large
chapter |19 pages
1999 Margaret Kentgens-Craig The search for modernity
chapter |26 pages
1998 Alice T. Friedman People who live in glass houses: Edith Farnsworth,
chapter |10 pages
1996 Joan Ockman Mirror images
chapter |13 pages
1992 Katharine G. Bristol The Pruitt-Igoe myth
chapter |15 pages
Neil Levine Robert Venturi and “the return of historicism”
part |2 pages
Part 6