American Architecture

"David Handlin tells the complex story with lucidity and insight. Almost from its seventeenth-century beginnings, American architecture was subject to two apparently contradictory processes: the practical and the grandiose. The first comes through in the vernacular buildings of rural America, the second is seen in the unprecedented daring of the Chicago Schoolgreat engineers like Adler united with great designers like Sullivan. This book tells the story of Architecture in America."