Title & Author:

American architecture : innovation and tradition / edited by David G. De Long, Helen Searing, Robert A.M. Stern.

Publication:

New York : Rizzoli, 1986.

Description:

xv, 277 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
"This volume documents the symposium and exhibition inaugurating the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture ... founded in 1982 as part of Columbia University in the City of New York. The symposium and exhibition were held at Columbia University, April, 21-24, 1983"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
American architecture: the real and the ideal -- The object: decorative and industrial arts -- The skyward trend of thought: some ideas on the history of the methodology of the skyscraper -- The building: vernacular and monumental. America and H.H.Richardson -- Chicago architecture: the other side -- Los Angeles architecture: the issue of tradition in a Twentieth-Century city -- Vernacular -- The place: urbanism and suburbanism -- The profession: contemporary practice -- Exhibition. The East -- The South -- The Midwest -- The Plains and Rockies -- The Southwest -- The West Coast -- America as a region.
Also issued online.

ISBN:

0847806456
9780847806454

Subject:

Architecture United States.
Architecture États-Unis.
Architecture
Architektur
Kongress
Geschichte
Bouwkunst.
Architecture United States History.
United States
USA
AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE

Added entries:

Stern, Robert A. M., editor.
Searing, Helen, editor.
De Long, David Gilson, 1939- editor.
Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 85652
Call No.: ID:86-B16741
Copy: c. 1
Status: Available