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Architecture and the esthetics of plenty.

Author: James Marston Fitch
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 1961.
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Fitch, James Marston.
Architecture and the esthetics of plenty.
New York : Columbia University Press, 1961
(OCoLC)557712856
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: James Marston Fitch
OCLC Number: 170863
Description: xi, 304 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 24 cm.
Contents: I : As the twig is bent --
The "American" in American architecture --
The impact of technology --
II : Giants in the land --
Architects of democracy : Jefferson and Wright --
Horatio Greenough, Yankee functionalist --
Our domesticated utopians --
The two men in Sullivan's tomb --
Frank Lloyd Wright and the fine arts --
Homage to a hero --
A lever long enough : how Gropius moved the world --
Mies and the climate of Plato --
III : The field of vision --
American pleasure garden --
Skyscraper : skin for its bones --
At peace with the past : the unfinished church --
In defense of the city --
IV : Problems of the day --
The engineer : friend or foe? --
The uses of history --
The critic's shifting view --
The esthetics of plenty.

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