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"Symbolic essence" and other writings on modern architecture and American culture
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- Creator
- William H. Jordy ; edited and with an introduction by Mardges Bacon for the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2005]
- ©2005
- Physical Details
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- xi, 315 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 0300094485, 0300094493, 9780300238143, 9780300094480, 9780300094497, 0300238142
- OCLC
- ocm55730041, on1042082923
- "A Buell Center/Columbia Book of Architecture."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-302) and index.
- Part I. American history and visual culture. Two temperaments in history: scientific and literary (1951) -- American architecture between World's Fairs: Richardson, Sullivan, and McKim (1983) -- Four approaches to regionalism in the visual arts of the 1930s (1977) -- The Tennessee Valley Authority: lessons for the present and future (1993) -- Fiasco at Willow Run (1943) -- Part II. The arc of European modernism. The symbolic essence of modern European architecture of the twenties and its continuing influence (1963) -- The international style in the 1930s (1965) -- <"I am alone": Le Corbusier, bathrooms, and airplanes (1983) -- William Lescaze reconsidered (1984) -- The aftermath of the Bauhaus in America: Gropius, Mies, and Breuer (1968) -- Part III. The historian as critic: formal perspectives on American architecture after 1945. Seagram assessed (1958) -- Medical research building for the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1961) -- Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; Library, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire (1974) -- Robert Venturi and the decorated shed (1985) -- Bank of China tower (1991)