American Architectural History: A Contemporary Reader

Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Keith L Eggener......Page 16
National design mercantile cities and the grid......Page 40
Modifying factors in Native American architecture......Page 54
Church design and construction in Spanish New Mexico......Page 66
colonial Virginia......Page 88
The plantation landscape......Page 110
The first professional Benjamin Henry Latrobe......Page 127
The Greek Revival Americanness politics and economics......Page 147
Independence and the rural cottage......Page 157
Victorian America......Page 172
A city under one roof Chicago skyscrapers 1880 1895......Page 192
Creating New York’s nineteenth century retail district......Page 221
American renaissance......Page 242
Exposition of 1893......Page 264
The prairie house......Page 282
Wright influence and the world at large......Page 296
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson......Page 331
of gender in American architecture since World War II......Page 357
The Pruitt Igoe myth......Page 367
Robert Venturi and  the return of historicism......Page 380
The battle for the monument the Vietnam Veterans Memorial......Page 395
Introduction variations on a theme park......Page 422
Fortress Los Angeles......Page 427
Index......Page 448