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A New Look at American Buildings and Americans,
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This review is from: Architecture in the United States (Oxford History of Art) (Paperback)
This book will be a classic. It is not so much a history of American architecture as it is a sociology, and not so much a sociology as it is a subtle and invigorating study of the social relations and social dynamics of American buildings and the people who make and use them. The book's views can be startling---see the comments on Jefferson's Monticello, on Buckminster Fuller, on Richard Meier's Getty Center in Los Angeles. It is beautifully written and the photographs are often dazzling. It even tackles the American suburb and shopping malls. Its views of the development of architecture as a profession and the status of architecture in the history of art are provocative and incisive. Highly recommended.
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Architecture in the United States (Oxford History of Art) by Dell Upton (Paperback - June 25, 1998)
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