The Life and Work of the Twentieth-Century Louisiana Architect, A. Hays Town

by David H. Sachs

This is the first thorough and substantive examination of architect A. Hays Town's work. His 70-year career provides an ideal case study in the evolution of 20th-century American architecture, spanning from a period dominated by Beaux Arts formalism, through a period characterized by the assimilation and acceptance of European Modernism, to a period once again receptive to traditional and regional influences. This examination reveals the remarkable...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 077346686X
• ISBN13: 9780773466869
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
• Length: 163 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.