Twentieth-Century American Architecture: The Buildings and Their Makers

by Carter Wiseman

Book Overview

Carter Wiseman presents an original, readable, and literate overview of the major figures, influential movements, and landmark buildings that have defined American architecture over the past hundred years. In a survey that is "as good...as anyone is likely to write...accurate in its facts, wise and fair in its judgments" (New York Times Book Review), he focuses to a large extent on architecture's makers--the commanding figures who by force of personality...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393320545
• ISBN13: 9780393320541
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 10.0"