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The Making of an Architect, 1881-1981: Columbia University in the City of New York
by Oliver, Richard (Edited by)
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 084780416X
- ISBN 13
- 9780847804160
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New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1981. Cloth, vii, 263 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket sunned & worn at extremities. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. Introduction, by James Stewart Polshek; History I: The founding of the School, by Steven M. Bedford; William R. Ware and the pursuit of suitability, 1881-1903, by David G. DeLong; History II, 1881-1912, by Steven M. Bedford and Susan M. Strauss; Apropos 1900: New York and the metropolitan ideal, by Robert A. M. Stern and Gregory Gilmartin; History III, 1912-1933, by Susan M. Strauss; Modernism rears its head, the Twenties and the Thirties, by Rosemarie Haag Bletter; History IV, 1933-1935, by Judith Oberlander; In search of an order to the American city, 1893-1945, by M. Christine Boyer; History V, 1935-1959, by Diane Boas; Slouching towards modernity: Talbot Faulkner Hamlin and the architecture of the New Deal, by Kenneth Frampton; History VI, 1959-1968, by Richard Oliver; Anatomy of insurrection, by Marta Gutman and Richard Plunz; Alumni works; A short history of Historic Preservation at Columbia University, by James Marston Fitch; History VII, 1968-1981, by Susan M. Strauss.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 4to.
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- Title
- The Making of an Architect, 1881-1981: Columbia University in the City of New York
- Author
- Oliver, Richard (Edited by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 084780416X
- ISBN 13
- 9780847804160
- Publisher
- Rizzoli International Publications
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
- Size
- 4to
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture / History;
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