"Symbolic essence" and other writings on modern architecture and American culture

"Symbolic essence" and other writings on modern architecture and American culture / William H. Jordy ; edited and with an introduction by Mardges Bacon for the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture.

"Historian and architectural critic William H. Jordy (1917-1997) significantly shaped the way we understand the character and meaning of modern architecture and American culture. This collection of his thought-provoking essays encompasses Jordy's entire career and includes his signature es...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jordy, William H. (Author)
Other Authors: Bacon, Mardges (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2005]
Subjects:
1900-1999
Architecture > United States > History > 20th century.
Art, American > 20th century.
Architecture
Art, American
Civilization
United States > Civilization > 20th century.
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. American history and visual culture. Two temperaments in history: scientific and literary (1951)
  • American architecture between World's Fairs: Richardson, Sullivan, and McKim (1983)
  • Four approaches to regionalism in the visual arts of the 1930s (1977)
  • The Tennessee Valley Authority: lessons for the present and future (1993)
  • Fiasco at Willow Run (1943)
  • Part II. The arc of European modernism. The symbolic essence of modern European architecture of the twenties and its continuing influence (1963)
  • The international style in the 1930s (1965)
  • <"I am alone": Le Corbusier, bathrooms, and airplanes (1983)
  • William Lescaze reconsidered (1984)
  • The aftermath of the Bauhaus in America: Gropius, Mies, and Breuer (1968)
  • Part III. The historian as critic: formal perspectives on American architecture after 1945. Seagram assessed (1958)
  • Medical research building for the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1961)
  • Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; Library, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire (1974)
  • Robert Venturi and the decorated shed (1985)
  • Bank of China tower (1991).

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