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Dagit begins by discussing the American dream, beginnings of American architecture, and the early history of two colonies and two capitals. Then he profiles American architects who have influenced the course of the profession, setting them in their times and places. Among them are William Buckland the first American architect; Chicago, the prairie innovations, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright; San Francisco, Berkeley and the gold rush, Bernard Maybeck; Los Angeles and the birth of the film industry, Rudolph Schindler, the beginnings of abstract modernism, Mies van der Rohe; and the New York five, "the whites," ultramodernists, and their conversion, Richard Meier, Michael Graves. He concludes with observations on history and the future of the American spirit. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
