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040 _aBC-EPAU
041 1 0 _aeng
_beng
100 _aPIERSON, William Harvey Jr
_eProfssor of art
_9319
245 1 0 _aAMERICAN BUILDINGS AND THEIR ARCHITECTS
_bthe colonial and neo-classical styles
260 1 0 _c1970
_aGarden City
_bDoubleday
300 _aXXV, 503 p.
_bIll., Couv. ill. en coul., Fig.
_c24 cm.
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_u8.2
_v1341
994 _a08040078
500 _aIndex
520 _aThis book is the first of a four- volume series, which, under the general title of AMERICAN BUILDINGS AND THEIR ARCHITECTS, will provide an architectural analysis and evaluation of American buildings from colonial times to the present.
_bP. PART I. COLONIAL AMERICA P. 1. The Background to the Architecture of Colonial America. P. 22. The Atlantic Seaboard in the Seventeenth Century. P. 61. Sir Christopher Wren in the Seventeenth Century. P.111. Gibbs and Palladio in the Colonial World. P. 157. Other Colonial Manifestations: Baroque Trasformations in the American Southwest. P. PARTII. NEOCLASSICISM IN AMERICA P. 205. The Background to Neoclassicism in America. P. 240. American Neoclassicism, The Traditional Phase: Charles Bulfinch P. 286. American Neoclassicism, The Rational Phase: The Idealistic Phase: Thomas Jefferson. P. 335. American Neoclassicism, The Rational Phase: Benjamin Latrobe and Robert Mills. P.395. American Neoclassicism, The National Phase: The Greek Revival.
653 _aArchitecture, Colonial american, American Neoclassicism