Roots of Contemporary American Architecture: A Series of Thirty-seven Essays Dating from the Mid-nineteenth Century to the PresentGrove Press, 1952 - 454 pages |
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Domestic Forms and Regional Adaptations | 9 |
The Contribution of the Machine | 18 |
The Social Conception of Architecture | 24 |
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