Designing Detroit : Wirt Rowland and the rise of modern American architecture / Michael G. Smith
By: Smith, Michael G [author].
Series: Great Lakes books: Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, [2017]Description: xii, 498 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, charts, plans ; 27 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780814339794.Other title: Wirt Rowland and the rise of modern American architecture.Subject(s): Rowland, Wirt C. (Wirt Clinton), 1878-1946 | Architects -- Michigan -- BiographyGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | NA737.R682 S65 2017 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000010417 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-478) and index
Architectural terms illustrated -- Preface -- Introduction -- Working for "The Dean" -- Back to schools -- The City's top designer -- Columns of stone, columns of words -- New work, new freedoms -- A breakthrough -- Two kings of Griswold Street -- End of the round arch -- Aftershocks -- A great depression -- Church and state -- Acknowledgments -- Apendixes -- Published works by Wirt Rowland -- Essential reading -- Further reading -- Tables -- Selected jobs, 1912-1917: Malcomson and Higginbotham -- Selected jobs, 1910-1922: Albert Kahn, Architects and Engineers -- Selected jobs, 1922-1930: Smith, Hinchman, and Grylls -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index