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Looking beyond the icons : midcentury architecture, landscape, and urbanism / Richard Longstreth

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Longstreth, Richard W.
Uniform Title
Essays. Selections
Published
Charlottesville [Virginia] : University of Virginia Press, 2015.
Copyright Date
©2015
Physical Description
x, 271 pages ; 27 cm

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Contents
Style and taste -- The problem with "style" -- Taste versus history -- Some challenges of the recent past -- The difficult legacy of urban renewal -- The last landscape -- The extraordinary postwar suburb -- The lost shopping center -- Extraordinary and unknown -- New Orleans new and old: St. Frances Cabrini Church, liturgical reform, and historical association -- The power of reserve: a Christian Science complex in the heart of the nation's capital -- A modernist's tribute to Lincoln and the remembrance of the war: Richard Neutra's visitor center at Gettysburg -- Douglas Haskell's Adirondack legacy: the understated campus of North Country School and Camp Treetops -- Commonplace and taken for granted -- Assessing a vernacular landscape: a community garden in Washington, D.C. -- Nonconforming [?] modernism: the Friendship shopping center in Washington, D.C. -- The continuous transformation of Savannah's Broughton Street -- Building houses, creating community: Joseph Geeraert and the development of Twinbrook.
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9780813936437 hardcover alkaline paper
0813936438 hardcover alkaline paper
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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