Research Catalog

Title

American architecture since 1780 : guide to the styles / Marcus Whiffen.

Author

Whiffen, Marcus.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Press, 1969.

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Details

Additional Authors

Cinamon, Gerald

Description

x, 313 pages : illustrations; 20 cm

Summary

Pictures, defines, and gives the history of many architectural styles. Buildings are geographically placed and cross-referenced to particular type.

Subjects

• Architecture > United States
• United States

Note

• Designed by Gerald Cinamon.
• Rare Book copy: In original dust jacket.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-289) and index.

Contents

Preface -- A note on the Colonial styles -- Styles that reached their zenith in 1780-1820. The Adam style ; Jeffersonian classicism -- Styles that reached their zenith in 1820-1860. The Greek revival ; The Egyptian revival ; The early Gothic revival ; The Romanesque revival ; The Italian Villa style ; The Renaissance revival : the Romano-Tuscan mode ; The Renaissance revival : the north Italian mode ; The Octagon mode -- Styles that reached their zenith in 1860-1890. High Victorian Gothic ; High Victorian Italianate ; The Second Empire style ; The Stick style ; The Queen Anne style ; The Eastlake style ; The Shingle style ; Richardsonian Romanesque ; Châteauesque -- Styles that reached their zenith in 1890-1915. Beaux-arts Classicism ; The second Renaissance revival ; The Georgian revival ; The Neo-classical revival ; The late Gothic revival ; The Jacobethan revival ; The commercial style ; Sullivanesque ; The Prairie style ; The Western Stick style ; The Mission style ; Bungaloid -- Styles that reached their zenith in 1915-1945. The Spanish Colonial revival ; The Pueblo style ; Modernistic ; The international style -- Styles that have flourished since 1943. Miesian ; The new formalism ; Wrightian ; Neo-expressionism ; Brutalism -- Glossary.

ISBN

• 0262230348
• 9780262230346

LCCN

69010376

OCLC

• ocm00011599
• 11599
• SCSB-2411359

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries