Charles E. Dagit

The Groundbreakers (eBook, PDF)

Architects in American History - Their Places and Times

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

If there is anything to be learned from the history of American architecture it is that it reflects the American adventure in creativity and inventiveness, and the desire to be unique and expressive. In The Groundbreakers, Charles E. Dagit, Jr. examines pioneering American architects and the historical events and trends that gave rise to their achievements. These architects, the caliber of Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank Gehry, created their own distinct, personal styles, and represented the rich heritages of their specific geographical regions.

The American pioneer spirit of individualism is alive and well in the architectural world, and like other American innovations, architecture as practiced in the United States is constantly renewing itself and finding new ways to capture the imagination. This book will be of interest to historians, architects, and students in American studies. Illustrations add dimension to the author's observations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351481786
• Artikelnr.: 48800666

Autorenporträt

Dagit, Charles E.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Peter Q. Bohlin Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The American Dream 2. Beginnings of American Architecture 3. Early History: Two Colonies
Two Capitals 4. William Buckland: The First American Architect 5. The Search for an American Architecture
Thomas Jefferson
a Romantic Rationalist
North and South 6. Boston
the Cradle of Invention
Henry Hobson Richardson 7. Philadelphia
the Generator of Institutions
Frank Furness 8. Chicago
the Prairie Innovations
Louis Sullivan
Frank Lloyd Wright 9. Pasadena and the Railroad Hotel
the Western Legacy of Greene and Greene 10. San Francisco
Berkeley and the Gold Rush
Bernard Maybeck 11. Tulsa
Oil and Cattle
Bruce Goff 12. Detroit
the Economic Engine
the Automobile
Eero Sarrinen 13. Los Angeles and the Birth of the Film Industry
Rudolph Schindler
the Beginnings of Abstract Modernism
Mies van der Rohe 14. Philadelphia
the Philadelphia School
the Emergence of the Intellectual Revolution
Louis I. Kahn
Romaldo Giurgola
Robert Venturi 15. The International Style
The Americans: Kevin Roche
John Dinkeloo
I. M. Pei
Philip Johnson 16. The New York Five
"the Whites
" The Ultramodernists and Their Conversion
Richard Meier
Michael Graves 17. Architects Out of Context
Charles Moore
Robert A. M. Stern
Peter Bohlin
James Polshek
Antoine Predock
Cesar Pelli 18. Global Architecture and the Architecture of the Bizarre
The Tech-Fantasticism Movement
Eric Owen Moss
Frank Gehry
Los Angeles and the Culture of Fantasy 19. On the Brink
Kieran Timberlake
Steven Holl
Tod Williams Billie Tsien 20. Observations on History and the Future
The American Spirit Illustration Credits Illustrations Index Index