Architects To The Nation: The Rise And Decline Of The Supervising Architects Office; Author: Lee, Antoinette J.; Hardback; Book

Author: Lee, Antoinette J.
Hardback; Book; 101 Halftones
352 pages
Published: May 2000
Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195128222

This unique book traces the evolution and accomplishments of the office that from 1852 until 1939 held a virtual monopoly over federal building design. Among its more memorable buildings are the Italianate U.S. Mint in Carson City, the huge pile of the State, War, and Navy Building in Washington, D.C., the towering U.S. Post Office in Nashville, New York City's neo-Renaissance customhouse, and such restorations as the ancient adobe Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe. In tracing the evolution of the Office and its creative output, Antoinette J. Lee evokes the nation's considerableefforts to achieve an appropriate civic architecture.This text traces the evolution and accomplishments of the office, that from 1852 until 1939 held a virtual monopoly over federal building design. Among its more memorable buildings are New York City's neo-Renaissance customhouse, and the ancient adobe Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe.