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TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction A. Staking Claim, Shaping Space 1. John R. Stilgoe National Design: Mercantile Cities and the Grid 2. Peter Nabokov and Robert Easton Determinants of Form in Native American Architecture 3. Marc Treib Church Design and Construction in Spanish New Mexico 4. Dell Upton Space: Parish Churches, Courthouses, and Dwellings in Colonial Virginia B. Building the Republic 5. John Michael Vlach The Plantation Landscape 6. Mary N. Woods The First Professional: Benjamin Henry Latrobe 7. W. Barksdale Maynard The Greek Revival: Americanness, Politics and Economics 8. Gwendolyn Wright Independence and the Rural Cottage C. Materialism and Mediation in the Gilded Age 9. Kenneth Ames First Impressions: Front Halls and Hall Furnishings in Victorian America 10. Daniel Bluestone "A City under One Roof," Chicago Skyscrapers, 1880-1895 11. Mona Domosh Creating New York's Nineteenth-Century Retail District 12. Richard Guy Wilson Architecture and the Reinterpretation of the Past in the American Renaissance D. Visions of a New Era: Seeing Self, Seeing Others, Being Seen 13. Robert Rydell A Cultural Frankenstein? The Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 14. James F. O'Gorman The Prairie House 15. Anthony Alofsin Wright, Influence, and the World at Large 16. Margaret Kentgens-Craig The Search For Modernity: America, the International Style, and the Bauhaus E. Shifting Scenes: Modernism and Postmodernism 17. Alice Friedman People Who Live in Glass Houses: Edith Farnsworth, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Philip Johnson 18. Joan Ockman Mirror Images: Technology, Consumption, and the Representation of Gender in American Architecture Since World War II 19. Katherine Bristol The Pruitt-Igoe Myth 20. Neil Levine Robert Venturi and "The Return of Historicism" 21. Mary McLeod The Battle for the Monument: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial F. The City in Question 22. Michael Sorkin Introduction: Variations on a Theme Park 23. Mike Davis Fortress Los Angeles 24. Marc Spiegler Planes of Existence: Chicago and O'Hare International Airport Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Architecture United States History