Architecture

by Perrin, Pat

• ISBN13: 9781579600105
• ISBN10: 1579600107
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-09-01
• Publisher: History Compass

Summary

Journals, letters, and reports document America's developing architecture from the arrival of early European settlers to the Columbian Exposition. Illustrations and photographs enhance the history of the development of an image for America's cities.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Before the American Image	5	(10)
Pat Perrin
Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Capitol	10	(8)
On England	10	(1)
Architecture in Virginia	10	(2)
A Roman Image for Virginia	12	(6)
A Classical Capitol for the New Capital	18	(20)
How to Pick a Winner	18	(4)
Construction and Contention	22	(1)
Latrobe Takes On the Capitol--and Thornton	23	(8)
Construction on the Capitol Goes On...and On	31	(7)
Many Voices and Many Visions	38	(12)
Greek or Roman?	39	(1)
What About Homes?	40	(3)
Old or New?	43	(3)
Change in Chicago	46	(4)
The Return of Rome - The Columbian Exposition	50	(12)
Chicago is Chosen and Work Begins	50	(2)
That Question of Image	52	(2)
Short-term Pomp	54	(2)
Wonder and Wonder	56	(3)
Frank Lloyd Wright	59	(3)
Epilogue	62	(1)
Suggested Further Reading	63	(1)
About the Editor	64