American architecture of the 1980s / foreword by Donald Canty ; introduction by Andrea Oppenheimer Dean

Prólogo/Donald Canty: p. viii-ix.

Introducción/Andrea Oppenheimer: x-xi.

Créditos fotográficos: p. vii.

1980. A vision continued. Richard Meier's Atheneum, New Harmony, Ind. / Stanley Abercrombie, AIA -- Of art, self-revelation and iconoclasm. A house remade by Frank Gehry in Santa Monica, Califronia / John Pastier -- 1981. 'A building of great integrity'. Fay Jones' Thorncrown Chapel, Eureka Springs, Ark / Stanley Abercrombie -- Soaring space wrapped in metal and glass. Crystal Cathedral, Garden Grove, Calif., Johnston-Burgee / John Pastier -- Pert and plainspoken sanctuary. Hartman-Cox's addition to the Immanuel Presbyteian Church, McLean, Va. / Andrea Oppenheimer Dean -- Simple but sophisticated farmhouse. Norman Gaffney Residence, Coatesville, Pa., Bohlin Powell Larkin Cywinski / Andrea Oppenheimer Dean -- 1982. Arcadian house of the intellect. Two views of Kallmann, McKinnell & Wood's headquarters of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge / Robert Campbell and Donald Canty -- Shining vessel of religious thought. Richard Meier's Hartford, Conn., Seminary / Donald Canty -- 1983. An emotive place apart / Robert Campbell -- Sophisticated fantasy in three parts. Elliott house, Pennsylvania. Architec: Jefferson Riley, Moore Grover Harper / Andrea Oppenheimer Dean -- Well matched couple / Nora Richter Greer -- 'First monument of a loosely defined style'. Michael Graves' Portland Building / John Pastier -- 1984. Historicist, spired 'city of glass' around a plaza. PPG Place, Pittsburgh. John Burgee Architects with Philip Johnson / Donald Canty -- Mission imagery, introverted spaces. San Juan Capistrano Library, San Juan Capistrano, Calif. Michael Graves / John Pastier -- Modules stacked behind a 'Billboard'. Portland, Maine, Museum. I.M. Pei & Partners / Robert Campbell -- An abstract language made comprehensible and comfortable. East Hampton residence. Gwathmey Siegel & Associates / Andrea Oppenheimer Dean -- Sophisticated use of rural vernacular. Weekend house in Michigan. Tigerman Fugman McCurry / Nora Richter Greer -- Built on religious, regional traditions. St. Matthew's Church. Pacific Palisades. Calif. Moore Ruble Yudell / Carleton Knight III -- 1985. Making a nonentity into a lamdmark. Procter & Gamble headquaters addition. Cincinnati. Kohn Pederson Fox / Andrea Oppenheimer Dean -- Distillation of a paradoxical city. Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. Frank Gehry. FAIA / John Pastier -- Combining adventure and respect. Herring Hall, Rice University. Cesar Pelli & Associates / David Dillon -- Friendly house full of surprises. Delaware house. Venturi, Rauch & Scott Brown / Michael J. Crosbie -- Shingle style reinvented. Residence at Chilmark. Robert A.M. Stern / Robert Campbell -- Gentle infill in a genteel city. Scattered site public housing, Charleston, SC. / Michael J. Crosbie -- The makin of a 'magical place'. Treehouse, Philadelphia Zoo, Venturi, Rauch & Scott Brown / Michael J. Crosbie -- Purposeful chaos on Cannery Row. Monterrey Bay Aquarium. Esherick, Homsay, Dodge & Davis / Carleton Knight III -- 1986. Complex of solid regional character. H.E.B. Headquaters, San Antonio; Hartman-Cox / Allen Freeman -- The U.S. chancery in Malaysia: neither fortress nor hut. Hartman-Cox makes it both secure and succesful as architecture / Carleton Knight III -- The Rockefeller Center of the '80s?Battery Park City's core / Andrea Oppenheimer Dean and Allen Freeman -- Triad of 'temples' in the woods. Wenglowski house. Deer Isle, Maine; Peter Forbes & Associates / Robert Campbell -- 'Indeterminate but handsome'. Seeley G. Mudd Chemistry Building, Vassar College; Perry, Dean, Rogers / Michael J. Crosbie -- An architecture of verve and invention / Robert Campbell -- 1987. Fuller House. Menil Collection of Art and Historic Artifacts. Conrad Sulzer Regional Library. O'Hare International Airport Rapid Transit Extension. Forms as rugged as their desert setting / Allen Freeman -- Simplicity of form, ingenuity in the use of daylight / John Pastier -- Dignified presence in an neighborhood / Nora Richter Greer -- Movement and color as themes / Nora Richter Greer -- 1988. Tegel Harbor Housing, West Berlin. Guest House, Wayzata, Minnesota. Science Discovery Museum. Becton, Dickinson Headquarters. Cooper Chapel. Waterfront housing at once exuberant and classical / Andrea Oppenheimer Dean -- Assemblage of disparate objects / John Pastier -- 'Nutty, delightful' children's museum / Robert Campbell -- Arts and crafts spirit pervades corporate offices / Robert Campbell -- Encore delivered with strength and delicacy / Karen Cordes -- 1989. IBM's colorful 'place in the sun' / David Dillon -- Boston's 'best new piece of public architecture' / Robert Campbell -- Design clarity and urban synthesis / Barbara Koerble -- Giurgola in Canberra: quiet colossus / Philip Drew -- Essays 1980s. Assessing a decade whose only constant has been change.

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