On architecture : collected reflections on a century of change / Ada Louise Huxtable.

Main entry:

Huxtable, Ada Louise.

Title & Author:

On architecture : collected reflections on a century of change / Ada Louise Huxtable.

Edition:

1st U.S. ed.

Publication:

New York : Walker, 2008.

Description:

xviii, 478 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
The joy of architecture -- The way we were: The '60s; '70s; '80s; '90s -- The way we built: 20th century icons and images -- Washington -- Museums -- Skyscrapers -- Modernism and its masters: Le Corbusier -- Mies Van Der Rohe -- Alvar Aalto -- Louis Kahn -- Walter Gropius -- Frank Lloyd Wright -- Modernism and its discontents: Reinventing architecture -- Rewriting history -- New York: World Trade Center -- Failures and follies -- Taste and style -- Strictly personal.

Summary:

A collection of pieces by American architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable.

ISBN:

9780802717078
0802717071

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture, Modern.
Arquitetura moderna Séc.20.

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 261922
Call No.: BIB 192968
Status: Available

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