Selected writings on architecture, preservation, and the built environment / James Marston Fitch ; edited by Martica Sawin ; with a foreword by Jane Jacobs.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Fitch, James Marston
Other Authors:	Sawin, Martica
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : W.W. Norton, c2006.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Architecture. Historic preservation. Architecture > Environmental aspects.

Table of Contents:

James Marston Fitch, 1909-2000 : a brief biography
pt. 1. Criticism. The houses we live in : an anonymous lament ; A building of rugged fundamentals : Kahn's laboratory for the University of Pennsylvania ; Boston's City Hall : end or eve of an era? ; Streetwise highrise : the esthetics of the skyscraper reconsidered yet again ; A funny thing happened-- ; Physical and metaphysical in architectural criticism
pt. 2. History. The palace, the bridge, and the tower ; Mt. Vernon and Monticello : exemplars of the slave powered plantation ; The lawn : America's greatest architectural achievement ; Mies and the climate of Plato ; The rise of technology, 1929-1939 ; Utopia revisited : the Bauhaus at Dessau forty years later ; Murder at the Modern
pt. 3. Preservation. The philosophy of restoration : Williamsburg to the present ; The battle for the past : preservation vs. historicism : postmodernism and the theme park ; Position paper on Central Park ; Visual criteria for historic building restoration : determining appropriate repair/cosmetic treatments
pt. 4. Climate and environment. Microclimatology ; The asymmetry of the external physical environment ; Vernacular paradigms for post-industral architecture
pt. 5. Toward a philosophy of building. Architecture and energy ; In defense of the city ; Urban amenity : what the architect can and cannot do ; The future of architecture
Appendix: James Marston Fitch as architect.

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