Main entry:

Wiseman, Carter.

Title & Author:

Shaping A Nation : Twentieth-Century American Architecture and Its Makers / Carter Wiseman.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : W. W. Norton & Company, ©1998.

Description:

412 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
[Table of Contents] -- Introduction -- Prologue. The Themes Take form -- Ch. 1. The Lure of the Tall -- Ch. 2. Domestic Diversity -- Ch. 3. Eclecticism and the Uses of the Past -- Ch. 4. Modernism and the Abstract Ascendancy -- Ch. 5. The Romantic Resistance -- Ch. 6. The Power of Preservation -- Ch. 7. The Outbreak of the Ordinary -- Ch. 8. The "Whites," the "Grays," and Postmodernism -- Ch. 9. High-Rise, Hard Sell -- Ch. 10. The Flight from the Real -- Ch. 11. Refuge vs. Community -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
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Summary:

" In Shaping a Nation, Carter Wiseman, one of this country's most respected architectural critics and historians, has written an authoritative and richly illustrated narrative history of the buildings that shaped the American century and the architects who gave them form. It is an original, readable, and crisply articulated account of the major figures, influential movements, and landmark buildings that have defined the American architecture of the past one hundred years. Wiseman focuses to a large extent on its makers - the commanding figures who by force of personality and sheer artistic ability have indelibly influenced its progress: Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Louis Kahn, Philip Johnson, I.M. Pei, Robert Venturi, Richard Meier, Michael Graves, and Frank Gehry among many others. The triumph of modernism; the growth of architectural preservation; the eclipse of the practical arts of building by money, theory, and abstraction; the American proclivity to approach art with a certain amount of suspicion, amplified by the conflict between partisans of the countryside and the city; and the uncertain future of architecture in a country that celebrates both individualism and community - these are just some of the issues Wiseman addresses with a scholar's learning, a journalist's flair, and a critics' firm and often witty judgment. The result is a book that will inform and delight - and will remain a standard work for years to come." -- Book Jacket.
An illustrated survey of twentieth-century American architecture, discussing major architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and I.M. Pei; examining some of the significant trends and movements; and looking at landmark buildings.

ISBN:

0393045641
9780393045642

Subject:

Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
Architecture United States History 20th century.
Architects United States History 20th century.
Architecture United States.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture États-Unis.
Architectes États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architects
Architecture
Architektur
Historismus
Bouwkunst.
Architecten.
Architects United States 20th century.
Architecture moderne 20e siècle États-Unis.
United States

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 179146
Call No.: ID NA712.W57; ID:98-B1612
Status: Available