American Architecture: A Thematic History

About this book

Leading historian Dell Uptons American Architecture: A Thematic History reveals the dazzling richness of Americas human landscape. The text covers indigenous folk ethnic and popular architectures like Chaco Canyon the Brooklyn Bridge and Native American houses while also exploring the great monuments of traditional histories like Jeffersons Monticello and Wrights Fallingwater. To make this text more useful for students Upton outlines the modes of architectural knowledge--books drawings and models--that builders and scholars use to understand the built environment.