| Description |
xviii, 205 pages : illustrations, plans ; 26 cm |
| Series |
Planning, history, and the environment series |
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Planning, history, and the environment series.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: 1 Exporting Stee-framed Skeletons of American Modernity 1 -- Epositions of 1876 and 1893: Initial Catalysts for Exporting American Architecture 6 -- The Atbara Bridge: US. Engineers trump U.K Competitors in Africa 9 -- An Abortive American High-Rise for London's Strand 14 -- Shipping American Skyscrapers Abroad: Milliken Brothers 15 -- Alfred Zucker's High-Rise Skeletons for Buenos Aires 19 -- Steel-framed American Workspaces for Export 20 -- U.S. Military Victories in 1898: Confidence, Commerce and Construction 22 -- ron and Steel: Primary Genes comprising an Initial Exporting Code 24 -- From Components to Systems: the American Construction Specialist 25 -- 2 From the Steel Frame to Concrete: Foundations for a System of -- Contracting Abroad, 1900-c. 920 29 -- Concrete Components of Architectural Innovation, c. 1900-1914 32 -- The Panama Canal as a Concrete Enterprise, 1904-1914 35 -- Kahn becomes a Popular Concrete System for Export, c 1905-1914 37 -- Irrational Warfare and Rational Corporate Systems for Construction and Trade c. 1914-1920 44 -- 3 American Builders Abroad at a Fork in the Road: Adjust or Go Home, 1918-1930 51 -- 'New Spirit of Construction?': Federations of Contractors and their Challenges to Rationalize 54 -- Acquiring Mental Angles of Approach': the AIA's Foreign Relations Committee, 1920-1930 59 -- Julius Klein s Four Key Questions 62 -- Taking the Longer Road: Building Banks in Argentina and China, 1917-1924 63 -- iaking the Shorter Road: the Fuller Construction Company of the Orient, 1920-1926 72 -- 4 Exporting the American City as a Paradigm for Progress, 1920-1945 85 -- From U.S. 'Metropole' to Latin American 'Peripheries' 87 -- Exporting American Construction and Planning to Russia 100 -- American Building and Planning in China, 1907-1937 10. -- Conclusion 120 -- 5 Architectural Tools of War and Peace 1945-1975 22 -- 'You loo Can Be Like Us: American Materials, Spaces and Skills to Europe, 1945-1958 128 -- 'Lighthouses in aSea of Ignorance': Object Lessons in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, 1945-1958 136 -- Exporting American Architecture to the 'Far East, 1945-1955 139 -- The Challenge of Opportunity in Latin America Gringos and the 'Middle Masse', 1945-1958 141 -- Competition and Adaptation, 1957-1960 44 -- Aid, Oil and Construction, 1960-1975 50 -- Conclusion 54 -- 6 The American Century's Last Quarter Exporting Images and Technologies with a -- Vengeance, 1975-2000 1 56 -- U.S. Gov enment Assistance in the Face of Competition 59 -- Shifting Geographies of Focus 162 -- Low Tech to High-Tech: Distinguishing U.S. Architects Abroad 165 -- Hong Kong's Cheung Kong Center, 1995-1999 166 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [176]-190 |
| Subject |
Architecture -- United States.
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Architecture, American -- Influence.
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Architecture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Architecture, Modern -- 20th century.
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Architecture, American.
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| LC no. |
2002069903 |
| ISBN |
0419246908 hb |
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0415299152 pb |
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