Twentieth-Century American Architecture
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- ISBN 9780393320541
- Weight: 644g
- Dimensions: 178 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 20 Sep 2000
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Carter Wiseman presents an original, readable, and literate overview of the major figures, influential movements, and landmark buildings that have defined American architecture over the past hundred years. In a survey that is "as good…as anyone is likely to write…accurate in its facts, wise and fair in its judgments" (New York Times Book Review), he focuses to a large extent on architecture's makers—the commanding figures who by force of personality and sheer artistic ability indelibly influenced its progress: Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Philip Johnson, I. M. Pei, Robert Venturi, Louis Kahn, Frank Gehry. The triumph of modernism; the growth of architectural preservation; the eclipse of the practical arts by money, theory, and abstraction; and the uncertain future of architecture in a country that celebrates both individualism and community are just some of the issues addressed in this highly praised work. Originally published in hardcover under the title Shaping a Nation.
Carter Wiseman teaches history and criticism at the Yale School of Architecture. He lives in Weston, Connecticut. He is also the author of Twentieth-Century American Architecture.
