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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Fitch, James Marston. Architecture and the esthetics of plenty. New York : Columbia University Press, 1961 (OCoLC)557712856 |
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| 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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