"Symbolic essence" and other writings on modern architecture and American culture
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New Haven ; London :
Yale University Press
2005
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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).
