Master Builders: A Guide to Famous American Architects

Book

Historic Charleston Foundation

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2008.002.0244

Description

Which architect designed the pedestal for the Statute of Liberty? Who put a Chippendale pediment atop a skyscraper and quickly created a landmark of contemporary architecture? Which architect designed a castle for William Randolph Hearst? This provocative book answers these and scores of other questions about more than 100 architects and builders who have left indelible marks on American architecture. Contents: William Thornton, Benjamin H. Latrobe, Charles Bulfinch, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Mills, William Strickland, John Haviland, Richard Upjohn, Thomas U. Walter, James Renwick, Orson Squire Fowler, Alexander J. Davis, Andrew Jackson Downing, Frederick Law Olmsted, Pattern Books, Alfred B. Mullett, Henry Hobson Richardson, Frank Furness, Richard Morris Hunt, McKim Mead and White, William Le Baron Jenney, Burnham and root, Adler and Sullivan, Cass Gilbert, Cram and Goodhue, Frank Lloyd Wright, Greene and Greene, Bernard Maybeck, Julia Morgan, Addison Mizner, Irving J. Gill, Richard Neutra, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Eero Saarinen, Skidmore Owings and Merrill, Louis I. Kahn, Philip Johnson, I.M. Pei, Venturi Rauch and Scott Brown. 203 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. (softcover)

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Library

Acquisition

Accession

2008.002.

Source or Donor

New Library Catalog Records (2008)

Acquisition Method

Found in Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Architects--United States

Book Details

Author

Maddex, Diane

Series

Builders Watchers Series

Publisher

Preservation Press

Place Published

Location

Washington, DC

Date Published

1985

Call No.

NA736 .M37 1985

ISBN

0471144029

LCCN

95048359

Location

Building

Missroon Library

Date

February 7, 2023

Location

Building

Library

General Notes

Note

Notes: Edited by Diane Maddex. Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-199) and index. Status: Shelf

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

December 11, 2008

Updated By

sferguson@historiccharleston.org

Update Date

April 5, 2023