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Author Huxtable, Ada Louise.

Title The unreal America : architecture and illusion / Ada Louise Huxtable
Published New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, [1997]
©1997

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Description 188 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: PREFACE -- -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- -- INTRODUCTION -- -- -- The Way It Never Was -- -- America the Faux -- -- The Real Fake and the Fake Fake -- -- Marketing Illusion -- -- Illusion and Architecture -- -- The New Architecture -- -- Conclusions -- -- -- INDEX
Notes Based on the Blashfield address delivered at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, May 1991
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Architecture and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Architecture -- Environmental aspects -- United States.
Architecture -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
Architecture -- Psychological aspects.
LC no. 96047066
ISBN 1565840550
1565844270