A History of American Architecture: Buildings in Their Cultural and Technological Context Embodying deeply felt attitudes about fundamental issues, buildings express our relationship with nature, our social relations with others, the importance of the individual, the value of science and technology, and our political role in the world.Why did the Victorians drape their buildings in elabo
| Title | : | A History of American Architecture: Buildings in Their Cultural and Technological Context |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.97 (385 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1584651369 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2001-07-01 |
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Why did the Victorians drape their buildings in elaborately ornate decoration? Why was the Arts and Crafts movement so popular with the American middle class at the end of the 19th century? Why did Modernism replace traditional architectural styles after World War II? Mark Gelernter provides fresh answers to questions like these, convincingly showing how buildings express powerful cultural forces.Embodying deeply felt attitudes about fundamental issues, buildings express our relationship with nature, our social relations with others, the importance of the individual, the value of science and technology, and our political role in the world. He explains how designers sometimes expressed these ideas with available building technologies, while at other times they invented new technologies in order to realize new ideas. Each of the ten chronological chapters, accompanied by almost 300 photographs, drawings, and maps, begins with a broad survey of the dominant cultural forces and technologie
Editorial : From Library Journal Gelernter (Univ. of Colorado, Denver) adds to the constellation of concise histories of American architecture while trying to refrain "from a traditional form of architectural writing that stressed connoisseurship." He is more successful with cultural than technological context. Throughout, he stresses European precedents, though the illustrations are not always well placed for optimal comparison. There are several refreshing and original inclusions of more vernacular examples as illustrations of the broad influence of styles. But despite Gelernter's argument in their favor, his illustrations are perhaps the book's greatest liability. Sometimes, as with the Monadnock Building, the author overlooks the key technological significance of the building. Although his summaries are at times substantive, Gelernter's expression of them can be less than elegant. His work does not eclipse the central position of Leland Roth's A Concise History of American Architecture (1979)
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