Sticks and Stones
Автор:
Lewis MumfordЖанр:
Дата добавления:
2024-11-12Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
42
Description
In his book Sticks and Stones, the historian Lewis Mumford discusses how American society has evolved alongside its architecture. Beginning with the first settlements in New England through to the early twentieth century, Mumford traces the development of American life through its ever-changing buildings and cities. From the simplicity of the early villages, to the classical Palladian style of the antebellum southern plantations, to the imperial buildings of Washington D.C., through to the uniformity of the mechanical age, Mumford contends that each style of architecture guides the development of society and its economy in a certain direction.
In particular, the...
