20th Century Architecture: The Structures that Shaped America

Woodstock: Overlook, 1998. Hardcover. VG/VG- light corner/edge wear, and scuffing to dust jacket. ex-lib copy with call number on dj spine and barcode on dj back.. Navy cloth boards with silver stamped lettering, illustrated end papers. Glossy color-illustrated dust jacket with gray and blue lettering. 400 pp. Nearly 400 illustrations, mostly in color. "Twentieth-Century Architecture explores the roots of modern architecture, explaining how history and the rapidly changing social and political conditions of modern times have affected the built environment. What, for example, was the role of Nazi German, Soviet Russia and Fascist Italy in the story of (truncated) the century's buildings? The book also discusses the innovations and inventions that have permeated modern buildings and structures and the way that the traditions of the past have imbued the modern craft of architecture."-Jacket. (Inventory #: 172116)