American Monument

"Included are iconic national symbols - notably the memorials to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln on the Mall in Washington, D.C. - and famed works of architecture by a veritable catalog of prominent designers: H. H. Richardson, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Louis I. Kahn, Philip Johnson, Richard Meier, and Frank Gehry. Also among the images are examples of technology and engineering, from the Hoover Dam and the Very Large Array to sleek grain elevators and wind turbines to deserted farm buildings across the West. Roadside relics also figure: motel signs along Route 66, a lone mast emerging from the Salton Sea, a prefabricated house ready for assembly."--BOOK JACKET.