American Building: 1: The Historical Forces That Shaped It and 2: The Environmental Forces That Shape It (2 Vols.), by Fitch, James Marston
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American Building: 1: The Historical Forces That Shaped It and 2: The Environmental Forces That Shape It (2 Vols.), by Fitch, James Marston. Houghton Mifflin: Boston, Massachusetts, 1966 & 1972. Edition: Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Hardcover, 8vo; 6.5 by 9.5 inches, 350 & 349 pages. Vol 1: Brown cloth with brown lettering on cover and spine. Vol 2: Gray cloth with black lettering on cover and spine. Illustrated with black and white (and some red in Vol 2) photographs, charts, and line drawings. Each volume includes Index, chapter notes with bibliographic information, and illustration credits.

Condition: Volume 1: Near Very Good in a Good jacket. Spine ends are bumped and fore edge has three thin, coffee-colored streaks on page edges; binding is slightly relaxed. Price clipped jacket is rubbed and chipped with several small closed tears. Volume 2: Near Fine in a Good Plus jacket. Book is tight and clean, with a small ding to the fore edge of the front cover. Jacket is lightly rubbed with a few small, closed tears.

Contents: Publisher's Note (Vol 1):

This book is a complete and comprehensive history of architecture in the United States. The first edition of AMERICAN BUILDING, published in 1947, was an immediate success and was reprinted several times. Now the author has made a complete revision of the book, greatly expanding and reworking the historical material in the light of recent historical research, and bringing the text down to date. The volume is much more fully illustrated, having almost 250 pictures closely integrated with the text.

Publisher's Note (Vol 2):

Every architect of a new building creates, in effect, a new environment for the people who will work, live, study or worship in it. But few architects today are able to anticipate the full consequences of these environmental manipulations. Science and technology have so extended our capacity to disturb and disrupt the natural ecological balance that the individual architect or city planner simply can no longer solve his problems by traditional concepts andmethodologies.

Confronting this paradox, James Marston Fitch develops a new theory of man/environment relations. Employing the most recent developments in the life sciences -- from ecological and anthropologial theory to experimental psychology and aerospace medicine -- he explains their significane for architectural and urban design. His book thus forms an indispensable link between the most advanced environmentalist theory and everyday architectural experience.