Architecture and the Esthetics of Plenty

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Acknowledgments v
• Contents vii
• Illustrations ix
• Part I - As the Twig Is Bent 1
• 1 - The "American" in American Architecture 3
• 2 - The Impact of Technology 14
• Part II - Giants in the Land 29
• 3 - Architects of Democracy: Jefferson and Wright 31
• 4 - Horatio Greenough, Yankee Functionalist 46
• 5 - Our Domesticated Utopians 65
• 6 - The Two Men in Sullivan's Tomb 86
• 7 - Frank Lloyd Wright and the Fine Arts 104
• 8 - Homage to a Hero 124
• 9 - A Lever Long Enough: How Gropius Moved the World 133
• 10 - MiËs and the Climate of Plato 156

• Title Page iii
• Acknowledgments v
• Contents vii
• Illustrations ix
• Part I - As the Twig Is Bent 1
• 1 - The "American" in American Architecture 3
• 2 - The Impact of Technology 14
• Part II - Giants in the Land 29
• 3 - Architects of Democracy: Jefferson and Wright 31
• 4 - Horatio Greenough, Yankee Functionalist 46
• 5 - Our Domesticated Utopians 65
• 6 - The Two Men in Sullivan's Tomb 86
• 7 - Frank Lloyd Wright and the Fine Arts 104
• 8 - Homage to a Hero 124
• 9 - A Lever Long Enough: How Gropius Moved the World 133
• 10 - MiËs and the Climate of Plato 156
• Part III - The Field of Vision 171
• 11 - American Pleasure Garden 173
• 12 - Skyscraper: Skin for Its Bones 189
• 13 - At Peace with the Past: the Unfinished Church 203
• 14 - In Defense of the City 216
• Part IV - Problems of the Day 227
• 15 - The Engineer: Friend or Foe? 229
• 16 - The Uses of History 241
• 17 - The Critic's Shifting View 254
• 18 - The Esthetics of Plenty 268
• Notes 285
• Index 295