A History of American Architecture: Buildings in Their Cultural and Technological Context

"While cognizant of technological issues and the great single practitioners, his is primarily a cultural history. Gelernter covers a broad range of intellectual as well as architectural history. He accepts the boundaries of the continental U.S. without question, but liberally mixes in large swaths of European history as needed. His history traces an arc of development from the simple imitation of the European forms to self-assured invention.Mark Gelernter is the author of 'A History of American Architecture: Buildings in Their Cultural and Technological Context', published 2001 under ISBN 9781584651369 and ISBN 1584651369.