Twentieth-Century American Architecture: The Buildings and Their Makers

An authoritative and richly illustrated narrative history of the buildings that shaped the American century and the architects who gave them form.
Carter Wiseman presents an original, readable, and literate overview of the major figures, influential movements, and landmark buildings that have defined American architecture over the past hundred years. In a survey that is "as good . . . as anyone is likely to write . . . accurate in its facts, wise and fair in its judgments"(New York Times),…