- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.; 2nd Revised edition edition (5 July 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 039373174X
- ISBN-13: 978-0393731743
- Product Dimensions: 14.2 x 1.7 x 20.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,012,414 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Praise for previous edition: "This excellent guide is authorative, stylishly written, and easily understandable, even for the non-specialist." Los Angeles Times
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This revised edition takes you on a tour of twentieth and twenty-first century American architectural treasures. It provides the practical information needed to experience them firsthand and the descriptions offer insights into the buildings and designers. It locates America's important buildings and provides the practical information you need to get there: addresses, phone numbers, visitor hours and maps-and explains why each will reward your visit.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Indispensable and fascinating
13 Nov 2005
Format:Paperback
It is often easy to visit important architectural sites just by making a quick walking tour or a short drive from your hotel ... but you have to know exactly where to look. That's the value of this classic travel guide to American architecture, now in its Sixth edition. The latest Architecture Traveler treats 263 buildings. Each page covers one building with a narrative, photos, and visitor information. In this newest edition of the guide, websites are included for many of the buildings - a real help. The Architecture Traveler itself has a website, at architecture-traveler.com. At the end of the book you'll find useful maps showing all the buildings' locations.
The author, whose work appears in The New York Times and in the shelter magazines, has a real gift for finding unexpected details and for telling the behind the scenes stories of the buildings, the architects and sometimes the owners. The buildings are presented in time sequence, so you can scan across the decades by trilling the pages against your thumb. The 13 new buildings from 2000 forward will give you a quick sense of contemporary ideas, trends and new materials and techniques in American architecture. A strikingly beautiful new solar house completed in 2004 (with a monthly electricity bill of zero) was particularly interesting to me. My only criticism is the new cover, which seems sort of bland and formal compared to past covers.
This classic guide has been translated into German and Chinese, and it is not uncommon to spot and greet other adventurous Architecture Travelers with this book in hand at the famous and - especially - at the slightly offbeat or lesser-known sites. The Architecture Traveler makes a good gift, as well.
The author, whose work appears in The New York Times and in the shelter magazines, has a real gift for finding unexpected details and for telling the behind the scenes stories of the buildings, the architects and sometimes the owners. The buildings are presented in time sequence, so you can scan across the decades by trilling the pages against your thumb. The 13 new buildings from 2000 forward will give you a quick sense of contemporary ideas, trends and new materials and techniques in American architecture. A strikingly beautiful new solar house completed in 2004 (with a monthly electricity bill of zero) was particularly interesting to me. My only criticism is the new cover, which seems sort of bland and formal compared to past covers.
This classic guide has been translated into German and Chinese, and it is not uncommon to spot and greet other adventurous Architecture Travelers with this book in hand at the famous and - especially - at the slightly offbeat or lesser-known sites. The Architecture Traveler makes a good gift, as well.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
So many buildings....excellent.
16 Jun 2006
Format:Paperback
Solidly researched, well organized book with excellent indexes. The guide is practical and well written. I enjoyed traveling with it and reading it.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
One of a kind
3 Dec 2005
Format:Paperback
I like this book because it pinpoints the top architectural sites in the US that I, as a tourist, can actually see. There is no other book like it. Maps, addresses, hours, websites, and multiple indexes you can use to plan your trip by your destination city, by region, by architect, by era, or to locate a specific building.
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