The Architectural historian in America : a symposium in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society of Architectural Historians

The Architectural historian in America : a symposium in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society of Architectural Historians / edited by Elisabeth Blair MacDougall.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Society of Architectural Historians, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (U.S.)
Other Authors: MacDougall, Elisabeth B.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington : Hanover : National Gallery of Art ; Distributed by the University Press of New England, 1990.
Series:Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.) ; 35.
Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.). Symposium papers ; 19.
Subjects:
Architectural historians > United States > Congresses.
Architecture > United States > Historiography > Congresses.
Table of Contents:
  • American beginnings: Before 1870, founding fathers and amateur historians / Elisabeth Blair Macdougall. The discovery of America's architectural past, 1874-1914 / William B. Rhoads. "Lifewriting", first American biographers of architects and their works / Lisa Koenigsberg
  • Architecture and history: History in the service of design, American architect-historians, 1870-1940 / Keith N. Morgan and Richard Cheek. History in the early American architectural journals / Mary N. Woods. Chicago in architectural history / David Van Zanten. The teaching of architectural history during the advent of modernism, 1920s-1950s / J. A. Chewning.
  • An American scholarly tradition: New England gothic, Charles Eliot Norton, Charles H. Moore, and Henry Adams / Michael W. Brooks. Medieval architectural scholarship in America, 1900-1940, Ralph Adams Cram and Kenneth John Conant / Peter Fergusson. The scholar and the studio, A. Kingsley Porter and the study of medieval architecture in the decade before the war / Linda Seidel. Renaissance and baroque architectural history in the United States / Tod Marder. East Asia, architectural history across war zones and political boundaries / Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt. Architectural historians before the fact / George Kubler. Outside the academy, a century of vernacular architecture studies, 1890-1900 / Dell Upton.
  • Some American personalities: The writings of Fiske Kimball, a synthesis of architectural history and practice / Lauren Weiss Bricker. Lewis Mumford, the architectural critic as historian / Robert Wojtowicz. Henry-Russell Hitchcock, the architectural historian as critic and connoisseur / Helen Searing. Sigfried Giedion at Harvard University / Eduard F. Sekler. Architecture criticism in a historical context, the case of Herbert Croly / Suzanne Stephens. Appendix, American doctoral dissertations in architectural and planning history, 1898-1972.

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