A History of American Architecture: Buildings in Their Cultural and Technological ContextManchester University Press, 1999 - 346 strán (strany) Why did the colonial Americans give over a significant part of their homes to a grand staircase? Why did the Victorians drape their buildings ornate decoration? And why did American buildings grow so tall in the last decades of the 19th century. This book explores the history of American architecture from prehistoric times to the present, explaining why characteristic architectural forms arose at particular times and in particular places. |
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Cultures transformed and transplanted 15001650 35 3 5 5 | 35 |
Colonial culture 16501763 | 65 |
The age of revolution 17631820 | 97 |
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Academic Eclectic aesthetic Alexander Jackson Davis AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE Anasazi ancient arch architects architectural ideas architectural styles architectural traditions Arts and Crafts Beaux-Arts began Bernard Maybeck British building built California central Chicago Church City civilization Classical elements Classical language colonies columns concept construction cultural and architectural decoration derived developed drawing by author eighteenth century England English Baroque Europe European eventually expression façade fashion frame Frank Lloyd Wright French geometrical Gothic Revival Greek Greek Revival Henry Hobson Richardson HISTORY OF AMERICAN horizontal individual industrial Italian land later Le Corbusier masonry medieval Mexico middle modern Modernist movement Native American natural nineteenth century ornament Palladian period picturesque political popular projects Pugin rational region Renaissance Revolution Roman Romanesque roof shapes Shingle Style social society Spanish structure stylistic temple Teotihuacán tower towns traditional styles turned vernacular Virginia visual wall Western wooden York