Donald Albrecht

The American Style

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Easily the most recognizable architectural style in America, with its brick or shingled facades trimmed in white and ornamented with restrained classical detail, the Colonial Revival emerged in the late nineteenth century and is still the basis for classical design today. The American Style surveys the evolution of the Colonial Revival from the 1890s to the present, focusing on the period from 1900 to the 1930s when New York City was a major center of architecture and decorative arts. Leading architects, including McKim Mead & White, Delano & Aldrich, and Mott B. Schmidt, used its vocabulary for private residences and clubs as we… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Mellins, Thomas

ISBN: 978-1-58093-285-1
EAN: 9781580932851
Produktnummer: 8565883
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 224 S.
Abbildungen: Farb. Abb.

Über den Autor

DONALD ALBRECHT is the curator of architecture and design at the Museum of the City of New York and a leading expert on twentieth-century architecture and design. He is the editor of Paris/New York: Design/Fashion/Culture/ 1925-1940 and Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future and co-author of Only in New York: Photographs from Look Magazine. THOMAS MELLINS is an independent curator and architectural historian. His recent publications include Only in New York: Photographs from Look Magazine, and he is the co-author, with Robert A. M. Stern, of New York 1880, New York 1930, and New York 1960.