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Icons of American Architecture : From the Alamo to the World Trade Center [2 volumes] Multiple-component retail product
by Donald Langmead
Part of the Greenwood Icons series
Multiple-component retail product
Description
What turns a building into an icon? What is it about some structures that makes their history and legend even more important than their original intended use, making them a part of American, and world, popular culture?
Twenty four buildings and structures, including the Brooklyn Bridge, the White House, the Hotel del Coronado, and the Washington Monument are presented here, along with their roles in fiction, film, music, and the imagination of people worldwide.
Approximately twenty five images are included in the set, along with sidebars featuring additional structures.
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Out of stock
- Format:Multiple-component retail product
- Pages:632 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:05/03/2009
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- ISBN:9780313342073
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Multiple-component retail product
- Pages:632 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:05/03/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780313342073
