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Argues that the success of architects is not due only to education and self-promotion, but rather is dependent upon knowing the "right person at the right time", and analyzes the success of famous architects to justify this claim
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Roxanne Kuter Williamson is Professor Emerita, School of Architecture, the University of Texas at Austin.
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American Architects and the Mechanics of Fame
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University of Texas Press, 1991
ISBN 10: 0292751214
ISBN 13: 9780292751217
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Condition: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # 5684183-20
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American Architects and the Mechanics of Fame
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ISBN 13: 9780292751217
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 286 pp. A study of more than 600 American architects who have achieved a place in the architectural histories. She traces the apprenticeship connection in cases of Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Henry Hobson Richardson, the firm of McKim Mead and White, Latrobe and his descendants, the Bulfinch and Renwick Lines, the European immigrant masters and Louis Kahn. DJ has rubbing and creases on spine edges. Book very clean and tight. Seller Inventory # 011482
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American Architects and the Mechanics of Fame
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University of Texas Press, Austin, 1991
ISBN 10: 0292751214
ISBN 13: 9780292751217
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hardcover. Condition: near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Illustrated in black and white. ix, 286 pages. 8vo, teal cloth with silver spine lettering, d.w. Austin: University of Texas Press, (1991). Page edges very lightly spotted -- still internally clean and tight. Near fine in a fine dust wrapper. Seller Inventory # 324592