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Twentieth-Century American Architecture: The Buildings and Their Makers

by Carter Wiseman
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780393320541
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publisher Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
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  • Pages: 370
  • Original Price: USD 32.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 635 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): History / General

Carter Wiseman presents an original, readable, and literate overview of the major figures, influential movements, and landmark buildings that have defined American architecture over the past hundred years. In a survey that is "as good...as anyone is likely to write...accurate in its facts, wise and fair in its judgments" (New York Times Book Review), he focuses to a large extent on architecture's makers--the commanding figures who by force of personality and sheer artistic ability indelibly influenced its progress: Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Philip Johnson, I. M. Pei, Robert Venturi, Louis Kahn, Frank Gehry. The triumph of modernism; the growth of architectural preservation; the eclipse of the practical arts by money, theory, and abstraction; and the uncertain future of architecture in a country that celebrates both individualism and community are just some of the issues addressed in this highly praised work. Originally published in hardcover under the title Shaping a Nation.

Wiseman, Carter: - Carter Wiseman teaches history and criticism at the Yale School of Architecture. He lives in Weston, Connecticut. He is also the author of Twentieth-Century American Architecture.

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