American architectural history a contemporary reader

Includes bibliographical references and index.

National design : mercantile cities and the grid / John R. Stilgoe -- "Modifying factors" in Native American architecture / Peter Nabokov and Robert Easton -- Church design and construction in Spanish New Mexico / Marc Treib -- Space : parish churches, courthouses, and dwellings in colonial Virginia / Dell Upton -- The plantation landscape / John Michael Vlach -- The first professional : Benjamin Henry Latrobe / Mary N. Woods -- The Greek revival : Americanness, politics, and economics / W. Barksdale Maynard -- Independence and the rural cottage / Gwendolyn Wright -- First impressions : front halls and hall furnishings in Victorian America / Kenneth L. Ames -- "A city under one roof," Chicago skyscrapers, 1880-1895 / Daniel Bluestone -- Creating New York's nineteenth-century retail district / Mona Domosh -- Architecture and the reinterpretation of the past in the American renaissance / Richard Guy Wilson -- A cultural Frankenstein? The Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 / Robert W. Rydell -- The prairie house / James F. O'Gorman -- Wright, influence, and the world at large / Anthony Alofsin -- The search for modernity : America, the International Style, and the Bauhaus / Margaret Kentgens-Craig -- People who live in glass houses : Edith Farnsworth, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Philip Johnson / Alice T. Friedman -- Mirror images : technology, consumption, and the representation of gender in American architecture since World War II / Joan Ockman -- The Pruitt-Igoe myth / Katharine G. Bristol -- Robert Venturi and "the return of historicism" / Neil Levine -- The battle for the monument : the Vietnam Veterans Memorial / Mary McLeod -- Introduction : variations on a theme park / Michael Sorkin -- Fortress Los Angeles / Mike Davis -- Planes of existence : Chicago and O'Hare International Airport / Marc Spiegler.