A Concise History Of American Architecture (Icon Editions)

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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 720.973 EAN: 9780064300865 ISBN: 0064300862 Label: Harper & Row Manufacturer: Harper & Row Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 432 Publication Date: 1980-10-14 Publisher: Harper & Row Studio: Harper & Row
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Editorial Reviews: This is a wide-ranging, substantive account of architecture: its elements, history and meaning from pre-historic times to the present. Leland Roth leads us all the way from Ancient Indian mounds to Johnson & Burgee's new "Chippendale" skyscraper in New York. He provides an assessment of each period based on contemporary concerns and conditions, rather than on retrospective criticism. This book is enhanced by over 300 illustrations.
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Classic text Comment: I was amazed at how well this classic treatise on architecture has held up over more than 25 years. It's a thoroughly engaging history of architecture with something to please anyone interested in building and design. Customer Rating: Summary: Good Survey of American Architecture Comment: Allthought not the best book ever written on American Architecture (Learning from Las Vegas, etc), it does provide a good overview of the evolution of architecture in America from the functionality of house forms in the early colonial times to asthetic forms of the 20th century. The book focuses on the regional influences which dictated the building forms of the early periods from materials to climate, which are often overlooked in broader surveys. Much has been written about the Segrams building in other books, but this book will give you a better understanding of why houses in the South are brick with external chimneys and New England houses are clapboard with internal chimneys. More Reviews