Scully, Vincent.

American Architecture and Urbanism.

New York / Washington, Frederick A.Praeger, 1969. Quarto (23 cm wide x 26 cm high). 275 pages with illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. The rare dustjacket very worn but now in a protective sleeve. With a few pages with text-markings (113-117). The Volume itself in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

“This book is concerned with the meaning of American Architecture and with an assessment of the kind of human environment it has created in that geographical area which is now occupied by the United States.
The splendid pre-Columbian, colonial and modern achievements of South- and Meso-America are not treated” (From the first chapter).

Excellent publication with a sociological outlook to american architecture and its impact on community.

The publication shows many images, architectural drawings and photographs, often in concept-form, juxtaposing Design (Plymouth Automobile) versus a native american camp of the Arapaho on the same page as an image of Buckminster Fuller’s “Dymaxion House”,
showcasing primitive mobility, housing and transportation pivoting into experimental design.

Historical spaces are touched on (Central Park etc.)

Magnolia Mobile Home Units / Pawnee Earth-Lodge Village / Bratten Township (Adams County) / Las Vegas

• Keywords: American Architecture · American Art · Architecture · Architecture – Rare · Catalogue Twentyfive – Architecture · Sociology – Rare
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 32511AB

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