American Buildings

æsthetic American architecture archi architect artist beauty become building built called century character Chicago church civilization classic columns complete composition construction cottage decoration detail École des Beaux-Arts effect elements expression fact feeling floor Frank Lloyd Wright function gardens give Gothic ground H. H. Richardson Henry-Russell Hitchcock human idea imitation interior International Style landscape Le Corbusier less light living Louis Louis Sullivan machine mass material means ment mind modern architecture monuments nature organic ornament park Pennsylvania Station perhaps Philip Johnson picturesque possible post-modernism practical present principles problem Pullman purpose question Renaissance result Richardson roof sense shingle style skyscraper space spirit stone story streets structure Sullivan symbolism taste tecture temple things tion town tradition trees true ture unity Unity Temple walls whole York