TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jordy, William H.
TI  - Symbolic essence and other writings on modern architecture and American culture. Ed. by Mardges Bacon
SN  - 0300094493
U1  - 720.973 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Buell center/Columbia Book of Architecture
N1  - CONTENTS FOREWORD  Joan Ockman  VII PREFACE  Mardges Bacon  x 1  INTRODUCTION Mardges Bacon PART I. AMERICAN HISTORY AND VISUAL CULTURE 55  Two Temperaments in History: Scientific and Literary (1951) 71  American Architecture Between World's Fairs: Richardson, Sullivan, and McKim (1983) 81Four Approaches to Regionalism in the Visual Arts of the 1930s (1977) 103  The Tennessee Valley Authority:  Lessons for the Present and Future (1993) 127  Fiasco at Willow Run (1943) PART II. THE ARC OF EUROPEAN MODERNISM 135  The Symbolic Essence of Modern European Architecture of the Twenties and Its Continuing Influence (1963) 151  The International Style in the 1930s (1965) 159 I Am Alone: Le Corbusier, Bathrooms, and Airplanes (1983) 171  William Lescaze Reconsidered (1984) 187  The Aftermath of the Bauhaus in America: Gropius, Mies, and Breuer (1968) PART III. THE HISTORIAN AS CRITIC: FORMAL PERSPECTIVES ON AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE AFTER 1945 227  Seagram Assessed (1958) 235  Medical Research Building for the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1961) 247  Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; Library, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire (1974) 261Robert Venturi and the Decorated Shed (1985) 277  Bank of China Tower (1991) 294  Selected Bibliography of Writings by William H. Jordy 303  Index
ER  -