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American architecture since 1780 : guide to the styles /

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Press, 1969.Description: x, 313 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0262230348
  • 9780262230346
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720/.973
LOC classification:
  • NA705 .W47 1969
Contents:
Preface -- A note on the Colonial styles -- Styles that reached their zenith in 1780-1820. The Adam style ; Jeffersonian classicism -- Styles that reached their zenith in 1820-1860. The Greek revival ; The Egyptian revival ; The early Gothic revival ; The Romanesque revival ; The Italian Villa style ; The Renaissance revival : the Romano-Tuscan mode ; The Renaissance revival : the north Italian mode ; The Octagon mode -- Styles that reached their zenith in 1860-1890. High Victorian Gothic ; High Victorian Italianate ; The Second Empire style ; The Stick style ; The Queen Anne style ; The Eastlake style ; The Shingle style ; Richardsonian Romanesque ; Châteauesque -- Styles that reached their zenith in 1890-1915. Beaux-arts Classicism ; The second Renaissance revival ; The Georgian revival ; The Neo-classical revival ; The late Gothic revival ; The Jacobethan revival ; The commercial style ; Sullivanesque ; The Prairie style ; The Western Stick style ; The Mission style ; Bungaloid -- Styles that reached their zenith in 1915-1945. The Spanish Colonial revival ; The Pueblo style ; Modernistic ; The international style -- Styles that have flourished since 1943. Miesian ; The new formalism ; Wrightian ; Neo-expressionism ; Brutalism -- Glossary.
Summary: Pictures, defines, and gives the history of many architectural styles. Buildings are geographically placed and cross-referenced to particular type.
List(s) this item appears in: Richardson Collection
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Reference Carleton University, AVRC Richardson Collection - Non CIrculating - Call No. Accompanied by Red Dot Open-stacks NA705 .W47 1969 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 16055001313

Signed "University Book Room March 1978 ( $15.78) D.S. Richardson" on title page and "NA. 705 W47 -- 1969"

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-289) and index.

Preface -- A note on the Colonial styles -- Styles that reached their zenith in 1780-1820. The Adam style ; Jeffersonian classicism -- Styles that reached their zenith in 1820-1860. The Greek revival ; The Egyptian revival ; The early Gothic revival ; The Romanesque revival ; The Italian Villa style ; The Renaissance revival : the Romano-Tuscan mode ; The Renaissance revival : the north Italian mode ; The Octagon mode -- Styles that reached their zenith in 1860-1890. High Victorian Gothic ; High Victorian Italianate ; The Second Empire style ; The Stick style ; The Queen Anne style ; The Eastlake style ; The Shingle style ; Richardsonian Romanesque ; Châteauesque -- Styles that reached their zenith in 1890-1915. Beaux-arts Classicism ; The second Renaissance revival ; The Georgian revival ; The Neo-classical revival ; The late Gothic revival ; The Jacobethan revival ; The commercial style ; Sullivanesque ; The Prairie style ; The Western Stick style ; The Mission style ; Bungaloid -- Styles that reached their zenith in 1915-1945. The Spanish Colonial revival ; The Pueblo style ; Modernistic ; The international style -- Styles that have flourished since 1943. Miesian ; The new formalism ; Wrightian ; Neo-expressionism ; Brutalism -- Glossary.

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