By: Marcus Whiffen,Frederick Koeper
Price: $9.98
Publisher:
The MIT Press: April 1981
Seller ID: 246663
ISBN: 0262231050
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - VeryGood
This panoramic survey of American architecture will serve a variety of readers interested in American architectural, cultural, and social history as a source of information and insight on the development of the man-made landscape in the United States.The book--illustrated with nearly 300 halftones and over 50 line drawings--provides a long perspective on the social and environmental factors that shaped American building and delineates both the assimilation of European influences (from Lord Baltimore's London-imported row houses to the work of Mies van der Rohe) and the growth of native innovat...
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