This major new text features 24 essays on North American architectural and urban history. The book concentrates on recent writings by historians of American architecture and urbanism. The essays are drawn from the past twenty years' of publishing in the field, arranged chronologically from colonial to contemporary and accessible in thematic groupings. The editor provides a comprehensive introductory essay and sets the book's themes in context.

Keith L. Eggener teaches American art and architectural history at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is the author of Luis Barragan's Gardens of El Pedregal (Princeton Architectural Press) and is assistant editor of the Buildings of the United States series (Oxford University Press/Society of Architectural Historians).

Acknowledgments

xi

Keith L. Eggener

1

(22)

Introduction

Part 1 Staking claim, shaping space

23

(70)

1 1982 John R. Stilgoe

National design: mercantile cities and the grid

25

(14)

2 1989 Peter Nabokov and Robert Easton

"Modifying factors" in Native American architecture

39

(12)

3 1993 Marc Treib

Church design and construction in Spanish New Mexico

51

(22)

4 1986 Dell Upton

Space: parish churches, courthouses, and dwellings in colonial Virginia

73

(20)

Part 2 Building the republic

93

(62)

5 1993 John Michael Vlach

The plantation landscape

95

(17)

6 1999 Mary N. Woods

The first professional: Benjamin Henry Latrobe

112

(20)

7 2002 W. Barksdale Maynard

The Greek Revival: Americanness, politics and economics

132

(10)

8 1981 Gwendolyn Wright

Independence and the rural cottage

142

(13)

Part 3 Materialism and mediation in the Gilded Age

155

(92)

9 1992 Kenneth L. Ames

First impressions: front halls and hall furnishings in Victorian America

157

(20)

10 1991 Daniel Bluestone

"A city under one roof," Chicago skyscrapers, 1880-1895

177

(29)

11 1996 Mona Domosh

Creating New York's nineteenth-century retail district

206

(21)

12 1983 Richard Guy Wilson

Architecture and the reinterpretation of the past in the American renaissance

227

(20)

Part 4 Visions of a new era: seeing self, seeing others, being seen

247

(66)

13 1993 Robert W. Rydell

A cultural Frankenstein? The Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893

249

(18)

14 1991 James F. O'Gorman

The prairie house

267

(14)

15 1999 Anthony Alofsin

Wright, influence, and the world at large

281

(13)

16 1999 Margaret Kentgens-Craig

The search for modernity: America, the International Style, and the Bauhaus

294

(19)

Part 5 Shifting scenes: modernism and postmodernism

313

(92)

17 1998 Alice T. Friedman

People who live in glass houses: Edith Farnsworth, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Philip Johnson

316

(26)

18 1996 Joan Ockman

Mirror images: technology, consumption, and the representation of gender in American architecture since World War II

342

(10)

19 1992 Katharine G. Bristol

The Pruitt-Igoe myth

352

(13)

20 1989 Neil Levine

Robert Venturi and "the return of historicism"

365

(15)

21 1989 Mary McLeod

The battle for the monument: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

380

(25)

Part 6 The city in question

405

(28)

22 1992 Michael Sorkin

Introduction: variations on a theme park

407

(5)

23 1992 Mike Davis

Fortress Los Angeles

412

(14)

24 1997 Marc Spiegler

Planes of existence: Chicago and O'Hare International Airport

426

(7)

Index

433

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