Product Description
by Dell Upton (Author)
Leading historian Dell Upton's American Architecture: A Thematic History reveals the dazzling richness of America's human landscape. The text covers indigenous, folk, ethnic, and popular architectures like Chaco Canyon, the Brooklyn Bridge, and Native American houses while also exploring the great monuments of traditional histories like Jefferson's Monticello and Wright's Fallingwater. To make this text more useful for students, Upton outlines the modes of architectural knowledge--books, drawings, and models--that builders and scholars use to understand the built environment.
Author Biography
Dell Upton is Distinguished Professor of Architectural History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Number of Pages: 384
Dimensions: 0.8 x 10 x 7 IN
Publication Date: February 04, 2019
