PUBLIC BUILDINGS: ARCHITECTURE Under PWA 1933-39 Illus

AUTHOR: CW Short and RS Brown

TITLE: PUBLIC BUILDINGS : ARCHITECTURE Under the PUBLIC WORKS ADMINISTRATION 1933-1939, Volume 1

PUBLISHER/DATE: Da Capo, 1986

DESCRIPTION: Softcover, ex-library, with usual stamps etc, in Good overall condition, solid copy, some edge soil, no tears or marks to contents,

oversize 9 x 12 format, 353pp.

B&W Photos and Floor Plans throughout.

Reliable Serviceable Reference Copy

ALL PHOTOS and/or SCANS are of the ACTUAL ITEMS BEING OFFERED

from Jacket:

New introduction by Richard Guy Wilson

"We are just beginning to understand the period of American architecture which Public Buildings helps to document. P.W.A.'s contribution to that era comes not in the form of a style or a discrete movement, but rather in giving renewed energy to the idea of government as an exemplar. The sheer volume of projects sponsored by the agency is remarkable, but the civic presence denoted by so much of the work itself is perhaps its greatest legacy. Palatial high school, streamlined recreation building, pueblo-like library, chaste city hall-buildings in Delaware, Alabama, North Dakota, New Mexico-all suggest the diverse forms of expression that are the stuff of American culture. At the same time, they offer unity in their embodiment of a national ideal."

-Richard Longstreth, George Washington University

"This volume provides a lavish sampling of the range of public buildings erected during Roosevelt's presidency, as a means of mitigating the effects of, the Depression. Remarkable as a cross-section of New Deal architectural achievement, Public Buildings also reveals a crucial period in architectural design, when traditional and regional imagery competed with emerging moder¬nism. This book, therefore, is an important document in the New Deal, in the history of architecture in America, and in the efforts to create a symbolism for government."

-William Jordy, Brown University

This is the first of a two-volume landmark work, originally published in 1939 by the Public Works Administration, surveying the enormous diversity of public buildings planned and constructed by the U.S. government between the years 1933 and 1939. The plenitude of architectural styles and the marshalling of energies embodied in these structures reflects both the rich variousness of American culture and the nearly bygone ideal of government as public pro¬vider. From Washington State to Alabama, Nebraska to New York City, the P.W.A. built schools, hospitals, bridges, dams, zoos, auditoriums, and museums, many of them remarkable in design. This architectural treasure is now reprinted after nearly half-a-century, with a new introduction by Richard Guy Wilson, so that historians and students can more fully appreciate the dimensions of the P.W.A.'s achievements and their continuing presence on the American landscape.

Local Government Buildings

Auditoriums and Armories

Libraries

Memorials and Museums

Elementary Schools

High Schools

Combined Elementary and High Schools

Junior Colleges

Colleges and Universities

Social and Recreational Buildings

KEYWORDS: 1930s moderne modern architecture design

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