USA Modern Architectures in History

Name: USA Modern Architectures in History
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ISBN: 9781861893444

ISBN-10: 1861893442

ISBN-13: 9781861893444

Edition: 2008

Authors: Gwendolyn Wright

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From the Reliance Building and Coney Island to the Kimbell Museum and Disney Hall, the United States has been at the forefront of modern architecture. American life has generated many of the quintessential images of modern life, both generic types and particular buildings. Gwendolyn Wright's "USA" is an engaging account of this evolution from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Upending conventional arguments about the origin of American modern architecture, Wright shows that it was not a mere offshoot of European modernism brought across the Atlantic Ocean by emigres but rather an exciting, distinctive and mutable hybrid. "USA" traces a history that spans from early…

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List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Reaktion Books, Limited
Publication date: 2/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.75" wide x 8.67" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.584



Introduction



Modern Consolidation, 1865-1893



Progressive Architectures, 1894-1918



Electric Modernities, 1919-1932



Architecture, the Public and the State, 1933-1945



The Triumph of Modernism, 1946-1964



Challenging Orthodoxies, 1965-1984



Disjunctures and Alternatives, 1985 to the Present


Epilogue


References


Select Bibliography


Acknowledgements


Photo Acknowledgements


Index