Architecture in The United States

Dell Upton's revolutionizing interpretation examines American architecture in relation to five themes: community, nature, technology, money, and art. In giving particular attention to indigenous, folk, ethnic, and popular architectures like Chaco Canyon, Brooklyn Bridge, and native American houses, in addition to the great monuments of traditional histories such as Jefferson's Monticello and Wrights Fallingwater, Architecture in the United States reveals the dazzling richness of America's human landscape.

• New approach placing American architecture in its social and cultural context
• First title in the 'Western architecture sub-series'
• Dell Upton is one of the leading historians of his generation
• Lavishly illustrated and superbly designed
• Broad coverage of the United States as a whole, rather than being centred on the East coast
• Full critical apparatus eg: notes, bibliographic essay, timeline, maps, figures

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Map
• 1 An American Icon (Monticello/The Ordinariness of Architecture/The Domestic Community/Host and Hermit/Design/Consumption/Rethinking the Landscape/The Republican House/The New American House/Heirs of Monticello)
• 2 Community (Authority/Metaphors/Citizenship/Ancestral Homelands/Cultural Authority/Community/Communities)
• 3 Nature (Neoclassical and Romantic Nature/Country Life/Place/The Primitive/The Simple Life/Act Naturally)
• 4 Technology (Work/Ventilation/Gender, Sex and Filth/The Technological Sublime/Producers and Consumers/Consuming Architecture)
• 5 Money (The Political Economy of Architecture/Proximity/System and Flow/The Social Life of Work/The Public Life of Business/The Moral Authority of Capitalism/The Spatial Economy of Consumption/Consuming Architecture/Housing Non-Consumers)
• 6 Art (Architects and Builders/Why Architects/Architecture as a Business/Architecture and Social Class/Style/Architect as Artist/Styles of the Self/Who is an Architect/Beyond Art)
• Bibliographic Essay
• Timeline
• List of Illustrations
• Index