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"Symbolic essence" and other writings on modern architecture and American culture
2005, Yale University Press
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0300094493 9780300094497
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Table of Contents
Part I. American history and visual culture. Two temperaments in history: scientific and literary (1951)
American architecture between World's Fairs: Richardson, Sullivan, and McKim (1983)
Four approaches to regionalism in the visual arts of the 1930s (1977)
The Tennessee Valley Authority: lessons for the present and future (1993)
Fiasco at Willow Run (1943)
Part II. The arc of European modernism. The symbolic essence of modern European architecture of the twenties and its continuing influence (1963)
The international style in the 1930s (1965)
<"I am alone": Le Corbusier, bathrooms, and airplanes (1983)
William Lescaze reconsidered (1984)
The aftermath of the Bauhaus in America: Gropius, Mies, and Breuer (1968)
Part III. The historian as critic: formal perspectives on American architecture after 1945. Seagram assessed (1958)
Medical research building for the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1961)
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; Library, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire (1974)
Robert Venturi and the decorated shed (1985)
Bank of China tower (1991).
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A Buell Center/Columbia Book of Architecture."
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