San Antonio College Library

"_Architecture in North America since 1960_ is the first volume of its kind to trace the evolution of North American architectural work over the last thirty-five years. Its developments and innovations are explored through thremes of ideology, place, social change, technology, the city and the evironment. In an involved yet far-reaching introduction and seventy-eight projects, _Architecture in North America since 1960_ examines and offers new critical...

Wright in Hollywood, Visions of a New Architecture is the first book to examine a pivotal aspect of Frank Lloyd Wright's career: the so-called textile block system, which he pursued with a sense of mission between 1922 and 1932. Wright began the experiment in southern California, where four houses were built, but he soon demonstrated that the system was capable of a more universal application. Robert L. Sweeney explores the system's ramifications...