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Marble Halls is written for the intelligent layperson, rather than for the specialist in the history of architecture, who is interested in the architecture and interiors of America's Gilded Age as an expression of that era's quest for cultural equality with European nations, even as it paralleled the rise of the architectural style of Modernism.
Table des matières
Preface
Introduction: The Giant Rises
Chapter 1. The World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
Chapter 2. City Planning: The City Beautiful Movement and the Resurgence of Classical Architecture
Chapter 3. A Palazzo of Knowledge: The Boston Public Library
Chapter 4. The Library of Congress: Democracy's Palace
Chapter 5. Civic Grandeur, Civic Religion, Architecture, and Allegory: "We have learned to live with magnificence"
Chapter 6. Westward the Course of Governance Takes Its Way: Mighty Domes Arise in the Midwest
Chapter 7. The Great American Train Station: Roman Doric Homes for the Iron Horse
Chapter 8. Libraries Across the Land: The Halls of Carnegie
Chapter 9. Palaces of Art: The Met and the Mogul
Chapter 10. The Gentleman's Club: A Home Away from Home; or, a Palazzo Away from the Palazzo
Conclusion: The Last, but Magnificent, Hurrahs
Endnotes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
A propos de l'auteur
By Wayne Craven
Résumé
Marble Halls is written for the intelligent layperson, rather than for the specialist in the history of architecture, who is interested in the architecture and interiors of America's Gilded Age as an expression of that era's quest for cultural equality with European nations, even as it paralleled the rise of the architectural style of Modernism.
