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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Longstreth, Richard W. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2015]
Subjects:	Modern movement (Architecture) > United States. Cultural landscapes > United States. City planning > United States > History > 20th century.

Table of 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.