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The life of Robert Fulton
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Year: 1817 Publisher: New York Kirk & Mercein

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Workbook of an unsuccessful architect
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ISBN: 0853452946 9780853452942 Year: 1973 Publisher: New York: Monthly Review Press,

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Architectural visions : the drawings of Hugh Ferriss
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ISBN: 0823070549 0823070557 9780823070541 Year: 1980 Publisher: New York: Whitney library of design,

Louis Sullivan: his life and work
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ISBN: 0226820068 9780226820064 Year: 1987 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.): University of Chicago press,

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The man in the Glass House : Philip Johnson, architect of the modern century
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ISBN: 9780316126434 0316126438 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York: Little, Brown and Company,

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When Philip Johnson died in 2005 at the age of 98, he was still one of the most recognizable-and influential-figures on the American cultural landscape. The first recipient of the Pritzker Prize and MoMA's founding architectural curator, Johnson made his mark as one of America's leading architects with his famous Glass House in New Caanan, CT, and his controversial AT & T Building in NYC, among many others in nearly every city in the country-but his most natural role was as a consummate power broker and shaper of public opinion. Johnson introduced European modernism-the sleek, glass-and-steel architecture that now dominates our cities-to America, and mentored generations of architects, designers, and artists to follow. He defined the era of "starchitecture" with its flamboyant buildings and celebrity designers who esteemed aesthetics and style above all other concerns. But Johnson was also a man of deep paradoxes: he was a Nazi sympathizer, a designer of synagogues, an enfant terrible into his old age, a populist, and a snob. His clients ranged from the Rockefellers to televangelists to Donald Trump. Award-winning architectural critic and biographer Mark Lamster's THE MAN IN THE GLASS HOUSE lifts the veil on Johnson's controversial and endlessly contradictory life to tell the story of a charming yet deeply flawed man. A rollercoaster tale of the perils of wealth, privilege, and ambition, this book probes the dynamics of American culture that made him so powerful, and tells the story of the built environment in modern America.


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Some architects' portraits in nineteenth-century America personifying the evolving profession
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ISSN: 00659746 ISBN: 9781606180341 1606180347 Year: 2013 Publisher: Philadelphia American Philosophical Society


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Chambers for a memory palace
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ISBN: 0262121824 9780262121828 Year: 1994 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.): MIT Press,

Country, park & city : the architecture and life of Calvert Vaux
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ISBN: 1280843713 9786610843718 019802746X 0195346858 9780195346855 0195171136 9780195171136 9781280843716 6610843716 Year: 1998 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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After beginning his career as an architect in London, Calvert Vaux (1824-1895) came to the Hudson River valley in 1850 at the invitation of Andrew Jackson Downing, the reform-minded writer on houses and gardens. As Downing's partner, and after Downing's death in 1852, Vaux designed country and suburban dwellings that were remarkable for their well-conceived plans and their sensitive rapport with nature. By 1857, the year he published his book Villas and Cottages, Vaux had moved to New York City. There he asked Frederick Law Olmsted to join him in preparing a design for Central Park.

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