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A Concise History Of American Architecture (Icon Editions)

A Concise History Of American Architecture (Icon Editions)
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Manufacturer: Harper & Row
Written By: Leland Roth
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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.


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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.

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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.



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