Routledge America Builds: Source Documents in Architecture

Comprehensive survey of architecture, landscape architecture, and planning to provide a complete view of the spatial arts.

Acts as a companion volume to the Concise History of American Architecture for a cohesive study of the subject.

Examines the relationship between technology, land, and human values through primary source documents.

Provides a broad definition of architecture that includes environmental arts and social systems.

Traces the development of American spatial design from the arrival of early settlers.