Field Guide to American Architecture

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A Field Guide to Contemporary American Architecture presents the most thorough and comprehensive view yet published of American architecture from the 1940s to the present. Jargon-free and easy to read, it is an indispensable guide to understanding the evolution of today's architecture in its cultural context. From postwar housing to recent shopping center fancies, leading urbanist Carole Rifkind takes us on an illustrated tour through half a century of design. In words and pictures, she demonstrates the interplay...
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A Field Guide to Contemporary American Architecture presents the most thorough and comprehensive view yet published of American architecture from the 1940s to the present. Jargon-free and easy to read, it is an indispensable guide to understanding the evolution of today's architecture in its cultural context. From postwar housing to recent shopping center fancies, leading urbanist Carole Rifkind takes us on an illustrated tour through half a century of design. In words and pictures, she demonstrates the interplay between form and function, and how the uses of space, mass, materials, and ornament have evolved to produce the structures that surround us today. Filled with more than 400 photographs and line drawings, and covering the works of more than 200 architects, A Field Guide to Contemporary American Architecture is an essential reference for both the casual browser and the serious scholar.

This invaluable handbook to American architecture up to the 1940s, describes the historical background, construction materials, and basic structures and styles (Colonial, Federal, Victorian, Greek Revival, Romanesque, to name just a few). The book is divided first by building function (residential, commercial, etc.) and then by specific architectural period. Technical terms are clearly defined throughout a text illustrated with examples from a unique and ongoing series of drawings of historic buildings, which was begin in the 1930s as part of a W.P.A. project. With these aids, the reader should be able to identify virtually any American structure within its period, as well as any additions that my have been made to it in subsequent periods.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780517460054
  • Publisher: Random House Value Publishing, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 1/1/1985
  • Pages: 322

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Houses 1
Abstract
Expressionist
Traditional
2 Housing 77
Projects: 1940s-1960s 80
Civics: 1960s-1970s 86
Increments: 1980s-1990s 93
3 Public Buildings 101
Roosevelt-Truman-Eisenhower Years 105
Kennedy-Johnson-Nixon-Ford Years 113
Carter-Reagan-Bush-Clinton Years 130
4 Art Museums 149
Loft 155
Path 166
Palace 175
5 Religious Buildings 187
Axial Plan 193
Centralized Plan 206
6 Educational Buildings 225
Order: 1940-1960 230
Innovation: 1960-1975 239
Accommodation: 1975-1990s 251
7 Tall Office Buildings 263
Curtain Wall 270
Articulated Frame 279
Structural Aesthetics 288
Slick Skin 297
Signature Style 303
8 Shopping Centers 313
Suburbs
Towns and Cities
Between Places 352
Postscript: My Top Ten 359
Recommended Reading 361
Index 367
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