Main entry:

Fitch, James Marston.

Title & Author:

American building : the environmental forces that shape it / James Marston Fitch, with William Bobenhausen.

Edition:

[Rev. and updated ed.].

Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Description:

x, 390 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Previous edition: 1st ed. published by Houghton Mifflin, ©1948; 2nd ed. rev. and enlarged 1966-1972, reprinted by Schocken Books, 1975.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-372) and index.
Foreword / Richard Blinder -- 1. Experiential Bases for Esthetic Decisions -- 2. The Social Consequences of Architectural Intervention -- 3. Fair and Warmer: Control of the Thermal Environment -- 4. Pure as the Air You Breathe: Control of the Atmospheric Environment -- 5. "Oh, Say, Can You See ...": Control of the Luminous Environment -- 6. Silence -- Men At Work: Control of the Sonic Environment -- 7. The Architectural Manipulation of Space, Time, and Gravity -- 8. Skeleton and Skin: The Morphological Development of Structural Systems -- 9. The Integration of Environmental Control Systems -- 10. Plan: The Instrument of Policy -- 11. Toward Sustainability -- 12. Prospects for the Democratic Esthetic.

ISBN:

0195110404 (alk. paper)
9780195110401 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture and society United States.
Architecture et société États-Unis.
Architecture and society.
United States.

Added entries:

Bobenhausen, William, 1949-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 203682
Call No.: NA2543.S6 F54 1999
Status: Available