AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM
by Vincent Scully
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0500340366
- ISBN 13
- 9780500340363
- Seller
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New York, NY: Frederick A Praeger, 1969. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Archival Photographs. Text/BRAND NEW. Taupe linen boards w/silver spine lettering/Fine. DJ/NF; price strike-out, and light nips, rubs & closed tear to edges. American architectural history. Beginning with the settlements of the Pueblo Indians, argueably the first true urban community in the United States, to the physical & social insignificance of city planning of today. Yale Univ art historian Vincent Joseph Scully Jr. (1920 - 2017) centers on the meaning of American architecture & assessment of the kind of human environment it has created. Marked by a certain restlessness that is often adrift from precedents, adventures in building seems spured by early frontier culture, though now propelled by constantly renewed social & technological changes. Scholarly history of architecture as an expression of the intellect. 275 pgs w/archival photos, line drawings & maps in 3 parts: I, Preface; II, American Architecture & Urbanism; and III, A Note on Method & Bibliography, followed by Index. Fine copy despite flaws..
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005669
- Title
- AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM
- Author
- Vincent Scully
- Illustrator
- Archival Photographs
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0500340366
- ISBN 13
- 9780500340363
- Publisher
- Frederick A Praeger
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- History/Architecture/American/Urbanization/Philosophy/Social Sciences
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture; Philosophy;
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