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- catalog abstract ""Power and Style is a trenchant analysis of twentieth-century architecture and its relationship to civic, corporate, and individual power." "Throughout, he offers critiques of the buildings themselves - these reflections, as he sees it, of America's changing socioeconomic structure. This is an invaluable book on modern U.S. architecture, which demonstrates, in the finest tradition of cultural history, whom architecture serves, how, and for what reasons."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b9170868.
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description ""Power and Style is a trenchant analysis of twentieth-century architecture and its relationship to civic, corporate, and individual power." "Throughout, he offers critiques of the buildings themselves - these reflections, as he sees it, of America's changing socioeconomic structure. This is an invaluable book on modern U.S. architecture, which demonstrates, in the finest tradition of cultural history, whom architecture serves, how, and for what reasons."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Preface and Acknowledgments -- Architects and Social Place -- Style and Social Agenda, 1890-1910 -- The Skyscraper as Icon, 1890-1920 -- Altering Habitat: New Agendas for Residential Design, 1900-1940 -- The Social Transformation of Modernism, 1922-1940 -- Hegemonic Modernism, 1940-1970s -- Modernism's Failure: Public Housing, 1949-1970s -- Noncommittal Eclecticism, 1970-1990s -- At Century's End -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 130 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0809078236".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Hill and Wang,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "720/.973/0904 20".
- catalog subject "Architecture United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Architecture United States.".
- catalog subject "Architecture, Modern 20th century United States.".
- catalog subject "NA712 .T88 1996".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface and Acknowledgments -- Architects and Social Place -- Style and Social Agenda, 1890-1910 -- The Skyscraper as Icon, 1890-1920 -- Altering Habitat: New Agendas for Residential Design, 1900-1940 -- The Social Transformation of Modernism, 1922-1940 -- Hegemonic Modernism, 1940-1970s -- Modernism's Failure: Public Housing, 1949-1970s -- Noncommittal Eclecticism, 1970-1990s -- At Century's End -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog title "Power and style : a critique of twentieth-century architecture in the United States / Robert Twombly.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".