Architecture and Planning of Graham, Anderson, Probst and White, 1912-1936 Transforming Tradition

Name: Architecture and Planning of Graham, Anderson, Probst and White, 1912-1936 Transforming Tradition
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ISBN: 9780226101347

ISBN-10: 0226101347

ISBN-13: 9780226101347

Edition: 1992

Authors: Sally A. Kitt Chappell

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Fascinated by change, architectural historians of the modernist generation generally filled their studies with accounts of new developments and innovations. In her book, Sally A. Kitt Chappell focuses instead on the subtler but more pervasive change that took place in the mainstream of American architecture in the period. Graham, Anderson, Probst and White, one of the leading American firms of the turn of the century, transformed traditional canons and made creative adaptations of standard forms to solve some of the largest architectural problems of their times--in railroad stations, civic monuments, banks, offices, and department stores. Chappell's study shows how this firm exemplified the…

Book details

List price: $105.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/15/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 9.25" wide x 11.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 3.696
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Catalogue Raisonneacute;


List of Entries


Acknowledgments


Preface


Introduction



Historic Overview: A Mainstream Role in the Changing Values of the Early Twentieth Century



Principal Works: A Catalogue Raisonneacute;



Architects with a Rich Heritage: The Legacy of Daniel Burnham; History of the Firm; Biographical Sketches of the Partners


Part 4


Bibliography


Illustration


Credits


Index