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Print Price: $130.99

Format:
Paperback
384 pp.
7" x 10"

ISBN-13:
9780190245283

Copyright Year:
2019

Imprint: OUP US


American Architecture

A Thematic History

Dell Upton

Leading historian Dell Upton's Architecture in America reveals the dazzling richness of America's human landscape. The text covers indigenous, folk, ethnic, and popular architectures like Chaco Canyon, the Brooklyn Bridge, and Native American houses while also exploring the great monuments of traditional histories like Jefferson's Monticello and Wright's Fallingwater. To make this text more useful for students, Upton outlines the modes of architectural knowledge-books, drawings, and models-that builders and scholars use to understand the built environment.

Readership : This is an undergraduate text for students in History of American Architecture courses.

Reviews

  • "In comparison to other texts, Upton's encompasses a broader range of examples and is clearly oriented towards more diverse methodological approaches. It is the most intellectually discerning and socially relevant survey of the built environment in the United States."
    --Daves Russell, Savannah College of Art and Design

  • "I find Dell Upton's critical treatment of architecture in United States to be the most rigorous. Students can easily engage with the book because of its content and structure. It's the most engaging textbook on the market for teaching American architecture."
    --Kenny Cupers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • "Dell Upton has pioneered studying how human beings perceive the built environment through senses in addition to sight; and by that I mean, smell, sound, touch, and movement. Students love to learn about this kind of analysis, whether they want to be designers or historians."
    --Marta Gutman, City College of New York

Acknowledgements
Timeline
Introduction
Side Bar 1: Material Culture
1. An American Icon
Side Bar 2: Plans
Case Study 1: The Annie Wetmore and William Watts Sherman House
2. Community
Side Bar 3: Archaeology and Architectural History
Case Study 2: Plazas
Case Study 3: Christ Church Lutheran
3. Nature
Case Study 4: The Sea Ranch
Case Study 5: Aqua
4. Technology
Case Study 6: Harriet and Samuel Freeman House
Case Study 7: Illinois Institute of Technology
5. Money
Case Study 8: Oak Ridge
6. Art
Case Study 9: Wainwright Building
Notes
Bibliography
Credits
Index

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Dell Upton is Professor of Architecture History at University of California, Los Angeles.

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Special Features

  • Examines American architecture in relation to five themes: community, nature, technology, money, and art.
  • Provides case studies of particular buildings or sites that illustrate the conjunction of themes in single examples.
  • Contains a detailed timeline that ties in the thematic discussions in the book, giving a strong sense of chronological development.
  • Includes canonical figure profiles illuminating those who have helped change the face of American architecture.