The fourth edition of the venerable AIA guide to Washington's
architecture offers tourists, residents, and architecture
aficionados insights into nearly 400 of the city's most important
architectural landmarks, organized into 19 discrete tours. All
entries carried over from the previous edition, published in 1994,
have been thoroughly rewritten, and scores of entries have been
added. This edition includes notable new structures such as the
National Museum of the American Indian, as well as the classics
that epitomize the city -- the White House, the Capitol, Union
Station -- plus a number of private structures that are sometimes
overlooked, including houses designed by Walter Gropius and Richard
Neutra.
G. Martin Moeller Jr. blends informed, concise descriptions with
lively commentary on each landmark, revealing often surprising
details of the building's history and design. Every entry is
accompanied by a photograph and includes the structure's location,
the names of the architects and designers responsible for the
building and any major alterations, and the corresponding dates of
completion. Each entry is keyed to a new, easy-to-read map at the
beginning of the tour.
From the imposing monuments of Capitol Hill and the Mall to the
pastoral suburban enclaves of Foxhall and Cleveland Park, and from
small memorials to vast commercial and institutional complexes,
this guide shows us a Washington that is at once excitingly fresh
and comfortably familiar.
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