Main entry:

Pierson, William H. (William Harvey), 1911-2008.

Title & Author:

American buildings and their architects / William H. Pierson, Jr. [and William H. Jordy]

Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.
©1970, ©1972, ©1978

Description:

volumes <1-2, 4-5> : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Oxford paperbacks

Notes:
Vols. 4-5 by William H. Jordy.
Reprint. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, ©1970-©1978.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
v. 1. The colonial and neoclassical styles -- v. 2. Technology and the picturesque -- [v. 3. The architecture of abundance] -- v. 4. Progressive and academic ideals at the turn of the twentieth century -- v. 5. The impact of European modernism in the mid-twentieth century.
Also issued online.

Summary:

American Buildings and Their Architects is an ambitious, five-volume study of American architecture. Each volume is designed around a representative group of buildings, which were photographed and studied in detail by the authors. Presented in their social and historical context, these buildingsilluminate not only the development of American architecture, but the governing philosophies of America's most prominent architects. -- from book cover.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0195042166 (pbk. ; v. 1 ; alk. paper)
9780195042160 (pbk. ; v. 1 ; alk. paper)
0195042174 (pbk. ; v. 2 ; alk. paper)
9780195042177 (pbk. ; v. 2 ; alk. paper)
(pbk. ; v. 3 ; alk. paper)
0195048628
9780195048629
0195042182 (pbk. ; v. 4 ; alk. paper)
9780195042184 (pbk. ; v. 4 ; alk. paper)
0195042190 (pbk. ; v. 5 ; alk. paper)
9780195042191 (pbk. ; v. 5 ; alk. paper)
0385057024
9780385057028
0195042174
9780195042177

Subject:

Architecture United States.
Architects United States.
Architecture États-Unis.
Architectes États-Unis.
Architects.
Architecture.
United States.

Added entries:

Jordy, William H., author.
Oxford paperbacks.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 48937
Call No.: NA705.P5 (ID:89-B7965)
Copy: v. 5
Status: Available