Roots of contemporary American architecture ; a series of thirty-seven essays dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Contains an introductory essay and biographies of the twenty-nine writers whose work appears herein. Edited by Lewis Mumford.

Contributor Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990.

Imprint:New York : Grove Press, [1959]

Description454 p. ; 21 cm.

Note:A backward glance / Lewis Mumford -- I. SOURCES OF FORM: Form and function / Horatio Greenough -- A new scale of values / Calvert Vaux -- Love of the work / James Jackson Jarves -- Towards the organic / Louis Henri Sullivan -- II. ROOTS IN THE REGION: Early foundations / Henry David Thoreau -- Rural adaptation / Andrew Jackson Downing -- Frederick Law Olmsted's contribution / Lewis Mumford -- The regionalism of Richardson / Lewis Mumford -- Nature as architect / Frank Lloyd Wright -- Environment as a natural resource / Benton MacKaye -- III. THE ROLE OF THE MACHINE: The development of modern style / Joseph Warren Yost -- The Brooklyn Bridge as a monument / Montgomery Schuyler -- The art and craft of the machine / Frank Lloyd Wright -- Craftsmen: Machines: Speed / Frederick Lee Ackerman -- Machinery and the modern style / Lewis Mumford -- The balloon frame and industrialization / Sigfried Giedion -- IV. INTEGRATION IN CHICAGO: The Chicago renasence / Montgomery Schuyler -- The economics of steel frame construction / Montgomery Schuyler -- The first skyscraper / W.A. Starrett -- Function and environment / Dankmar Adler -- The Chicago period in retrospect / Louis Henri Sullivan -- V. CLIENT, ARCHIECT AND HOUSE: Client and architect / Mariana Griswold van Rensselaer -- The equipment of the architect / John Wellborn Root -- Character and style / John Wellborn Root -- The naturalization of the house / John Burroughs -- Simplicity and domestic life / Gustav Stickley -- The post-modern house / Joseph Hudnut -- VI. SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES: What is a house? / Charles Harris Whitaker -- The sad story of American housing / Henry Wright -- New towns for new purposes / Clarence S. Stein -- Towards a new physical world / Catherine Bauer -- VII. THE SEARCH FOR THE UNIVERSAL: The language of form / Claude Bragdon -- The basis of universalism / Lewis Mumford -- The international style / Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Jr., Philip Johnson -- The example of Frank Lloyd Wright / Walter Curt Behrendt -- Composistion in modern architecture / Matthew Nowicki -- Function and form / Matthew Nowicki.

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