Architecture in the United States

ISBN13: 9780192842176ISBN10: 019284217X Paperback, 336 pages
Apr 1998,  In Stock

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Winner of the 1999 Abbott Lowell Cummings Award of the Vernacular Architecture Forum
Named a 1998 Outstanding Academic Book by Choice

Description

American architecture is astonishingly varied. From Native American sites in New Mexico and Arizona, and the ancient earthworks of the Mississippi Valley, to the most fashionable contemporary buildings of Chicago and New York, the United States boasts three thousand years of architectural history. It is characterized by the diversity of its builders and consumers who include Native American men and women, African, Asian, and European immigrants, as well as renowned professional architects and urban planners.
Leading historian Dell Upton's revolutionizing interpretation examines American architecture in relation to five themes: community, nature, technology, money, and art. In giving particular attention to indigenous, folk, ethnic, and popular architectures like Chaco Canyon, the Brooklyn Bridge, and Native American houses, as well as to the great monuments of traditional histories such as Jefferson's Monticello and Wright's Fallingwater, Architecture in the United States reveals the dazzling richness of America's human landscape.

Product Details

336 pages; 62 color plates, 145 halftones & line illus., 1 map; ISBN13: 978-0-19-284217-6ISBN10: 0-19-284217-X

About the Author(s)

Dell Upton is Professor of Architectural History at the University of California, Berkeley.

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