UID:
kobvindex_INTEBC271010
Format:
1 online resource (355 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780195351866
Content:
"A work of impeccable scholarship that brings an enormous amount of new information to light. Drawing from federal archives, agency and congressional reports, and architectural journals of the period, [Lee] develops a detailed and definitive history... Lee gives us a sense of the rich legacy of public buildings that begs our attention." CRM
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Prelude -- 2 No Blueprint for the New Nation, 1789-1851 -- 3 The Bureau of Construction and the Corps of Engineers, 1852-1865 -- 4 Alfred B. Mullett, 1866-1874 -- 5 The Supervising Architect's Office in the Gilded Age, 1875-1894 -- 6 The Tarsney Act, Its Passage and Postponement in Implementation, 1893-1896 -- 7 Proponents of "Academic Classicism," 1895-1925 -- 8 The Public Buildings Program in Eras of Affluence and Depression, 1926-1939 -- Epilogue: 1940-Present -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Additional Edition:
Print version Lee, Antoinette J. Architects to the Nation Cary : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c2000 ISBN 9780195128222
Language:
English
Keywords:
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