Main entry:

Bonta, Juan Pablo.

Title & Author:

American architects and texts : a computer-aided analysis of the literature / Juan Pablo Bonta.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1996.

Description:

xviii, 424 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Foreword / William J. Mitchell -- 1. Text Analysis and Index Analysis -- 2. The Data -- 3. The Universe -- 4. Text Coverage -- 5. Histograms: From Commencement to Retirement and Beyond -- 6. The Foresight of Writers -- 7. Predictable and Unpredictable Lists of Names -- 8. Isonomy and Text Histograms -- 9. Cotextuality -- 10. International and Domestic Frames of Reference -- 11. Issues of Gender Equity among Writers and Architects -- Appendix: Procedures, Formulas, and Validity of Results -- Chronological Listing of Texts in the Corpus -- Listing of Authors, Editors, and Photographers in the Corpus.

Summary:

In this volume the author analyzes 400 architectural books and articles published over the past 150 years to reveal changing societal preferences in architecture and to measure the reputations of individual architects - the text includes a ranked list of the 100 most famous architects.

ISBN:

0262024004 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780262024006 (hc ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architectural writing United States.
Discourse analysis.
Architecture Art d'écrire États-Unis.
Architectural writing
Architekt
Architektur
Fachliteratur
Geschichte
Ranking
Architecten.
Pleidooien.
Woonwensen.
United States
USA
Architecture

Form/genre:

Statistik.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 199970
Call No.: NA44.B722.A35 1996
Status: Available