American Buildings and Their Architects, Volume 5: The Impact of European Modernism in the Mid-Twentieth Century
William H. Jordy
Oxford University Press, 1986

Paperback | 6 x 9-1/4 inches | 470 pages | 204 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9780195042191 | $15.95

BOOK DESCRIPTION (from back cover):
American Buildings and Their Architects is an ambitious, five-volume study of American architecture. Each volume is designed around a representative group of buildings, which were photographed and studied in detail by the authors. Presented in their social and historical context, these buildings illuminate not only the development of American architecture, but the governing philosophies of America's most prominent architects.  Volume 5, The Impact of European Modernism in the Mid-Twentieth Century, examines the influence of European modernism on American architecture from 1930 to 1960. Beginning with Rockefeller Center, a premier example of the effect of modernism on Beaux-Arts and Art Deco architecture, William Jordy documents the transformation and adaptation of European modernism by American architects. George Howe and William Lescaze wholeheartedly embraced European modernism in their design for the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society building. Marcel Breuer's college dormitory is an example of American popularization of European modernism, while Mies van der Rohe's metal and glass buildings transformed it. The Guggenheim Museum, by Frank Lloyd Wright, and biological ...