Main entry:

Twombly, Robert C.

Title & Author:

Power and style : a critique of twentieth-century architecture in the United States / Robert Twombly.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Hill and Wang, 1996.

Description:

xiii, 130 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-123) and index.
Preface and Acknowledgments -- Architects and Social Place -- Style and Social Agenda, 1890-1910 -- The Skyscraper as Icon, 1890-1920 -- Altering Habitat: New Agendas for Residential Design, 1900-1940 -- The Social Transformation of Modernism, 1922-1940 -- Hegemonic Modernism, 1940-1970s -- Modernism's Failure: Public Housing, 1949-1970s -- Noncommittal Eclecticism, 1970-1990s -- At Century's End -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Text in English.

Summary:

"Power and Style is a trenchant analysis of twentieth-century architecture and its relationship to civic, corporate, and individual power." "Throughout, he offers critiques of the buildings themselves - these reflections, as he sees it, of America's changing socioeconomic structure. This is an invaluable book on modern U.S. architecture, which demonstrates, in the finest tradition of cultural history, whom architecture serves, how, and for what reasons."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0809078236
9780809078233

Subject:

Architecture United States History 20th century.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture.
United States.
Geschichte 1900-1996

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 121434
Call No.: ID NA712.T88; ID:95-B2295
Status: Available