| Description |
286 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Contents |
A network of connections -- The time as well as the place -- A consensus of who is famous and who is not: the index of fame -- Louis Sullivan -- Frank Lloyd Wright -- Henry Hobson Richardson -- McKim, Mead & White -- Latrobe and his descendants -- The Bulfinch and Renwick lines -- The European immigrant masters in the twentieth century -- Louis Kahn -- The loners -- Connections: family, friends, schools -- Self-promotion and publicity -- Other, weaker patterns -- The historians as fame makers -- Afterword on the fame-making system |
| Analysis |
Architects and patrons United States |
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Architects Selection and appointment United States |
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Architects United States Selection and appointment |
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Architectural services marketing United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-268) and index |
| Subject |
Architects and patrons -- United States.
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Architects -- Selection and appointment -- United States.
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Architectural services marketing -- United States.
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| LC no. |
90035729 |
| ISBN |
0292729227 |
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0292751214 |
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9780292729223 |
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9780292751217 |
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