Architecture and the esthetics of plenty.

Main entry:

Fitch, James Marston.

Title & Author:

Architecture and the esthetics of plenty.

Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 1961.

Description:

xii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-294) and index.
I : As the twig is bent -- The "American" in American architecture -- The impact of technology -- II : Giants in the land -- Architects of democracy : Jefferson and Wright -- Horatio Greenough, Yankee functionalist -- Our domesticated utopians -- The two men in Sullivan's tomb -- Frank Lloyd Wright and the fine arts -- Homage to a hero -- A lever long enough : how Gropius moved the world -- Mies and the climate of Plato -- III : The field of vision -- American pleasure garden -- Skyscraper : skin for its bones -- At peace with the past : the unfinished church -- In defense of the city -- IV : Problems of the day -- The engineer : friend or foe? -- The uses of history -- The critic's shifting view -- The esthetics of plenty.
Catalogue of the James J. Kopp Collection, 447

Subject:

Architecture United States History.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire.
Architecture.
United States.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 74303
Call No.: W12773; ID:86-B12753
Status: Available

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