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. Drawing together 24 illustrated essays by major and emerging scholars in the field, it will appeal to students and faculty in college-level courses in the history of American art, architecture, urbanism, and material culture. 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. The editor provides a comprehensive introductory essay and sets the book's themes in context.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part 1: Staking Claim, Shaping Space. 1. John R. Stilgoe: National Design: Mercantile Cities and the Grid. 2. Peter Nabokov and Robert Easton: Determinants of Form in Native American Architecture. 3. Marc Treib: Church Design and Construction in Spanish New Mexico. 4. Dell Upton: Space: Parish Churches, Courthouses, and Dwellings in Colonial Virginia. Part 2: Building the Republic. 5. John Michael Vlach The Plantation Landscape. 6. Mary N. Woods The First Professional: Benjamin Henry Latrobe. 7. W. Barksdale Maynard The Greek Revival: Americanness, Politics and Economics. 8. Gwendolyn Wright Independence and the Rural Cottage. Part 3: Materialism and Mediation in the Gilded Age. 9. Kenneth Ames: First Impressions: Front Halls and Hall Furnishings in Victorian America. 10. Daniel Bluestone: "A City under One Roof," Chicago Skyscrapers, 1880-1895. 11. Mona Domosh: Creating New York's Nineteenth-Century Retail District. 12. Richard Guy Wilson: Architecture and the Reinterpretation of the Past in the American Renaissance. Part 4: Visions of a New Era: Seeing Self, Seeing Others, Being Seen. 13. Robert Rydell: A Cultural Frankenstein? The Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. 14.James F. O'Gorman:The Prairie House. 15.Anthony Alofsin:Wright, Influence, and the World at Large. 16. Margaret Kentgens-Craig: The Search For Modernity: America, the International Style, and the Bauhaus. Part 5: Shifting Scenes: Modernism and Postmodernism. 17. Alice Friedman:People Who Live in Glass Houses: Edith Farnsworth, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Philip Johnson. 18. Joan Ockman: Mirror Images: Technology, Consumption, and the Representation of Gender in American Architecture Since World War II. 19. Katherine Bristol: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth. 20. Neil Levine: Robert Venturi and "The Return of Historicism". 21. Mary McLeod: The Battle for the Monument: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Part 6: The City in Question. 22. Michael Sorkin: Introduction: Variations on a Theme Park. 23. Mike Davis: Fortress Los Angeles. 24. Marc Spiegler: Planes of Existence: Chicago and O'Hare International Airport. Index
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American Architectural History
by Keith L. Eggener
