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Book Raymond Hood

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carol Willis
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 6 pages

Download or read book Raymond Hood written by Carol Willis and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Raymond Hood

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  • Author : Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1 pages

Download or read book Raymond Hood written by Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Raymond Hood

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  • Author : Robert A. M. Stern
  • Publisher : New York, N.Y. : Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies : Rizzoli International Publications
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book Raymond Hood written by Robert A. M. Stern and published by New York, N.Y. : Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies : Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1982 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Raymond Hood  City of Towers

Download or read book Raymond Hood City of Towers written by Raymond Mathewson Hood and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Raymond M  Hood and the American Skyscraper

Download or read book Raymond M Hood and the American Skyscraper written by Robert Bartlett Harmon and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Raymond Hood  City of Towers

Download or read book Raymond Hood City of Towers written by Raymond Mathewson Hood and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Never Built New York

Download or read book Never Built New York written by Greg Goldin and published by DAP/Distributed Art Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on the success of Never Built Los Angeles (Metropolis Books, 2013), authors Greg Goldin and Sam Lubell now turn their eye to New York City. New York towers among world capitals, but the city we know might have reached even more stellar heights, or burrowed into more destructive depths, had the ideas pictured in the minds of its greatest dreamers progressed beyond the drawing board and taken form in stone, steel, and glass. What is wonderfully elegant and grand might easily have been ingloriously grandiose; what is blandly unremarkable, equally, might have become delightfully provocative or humanely inspiring. The ambitious schemes gathered here tell the story of a different skyline and a different sidewalk alike. Nearly 200 ambitious proposals spanning 200 years encompass bridges, skyscrapers, master plans, parks, transit schemes, amusements, airports, plans to fill in rivers and extend Manhattan, and much, much more. Included are alternate visions for such landmarks as Central Park, Columbus Circle, Lincoln Center, MoMA, the U.N., Grand Central Station and the World Trade Centre site, among many others sites. Fact-filled and entertaining texts, as well as sketches, renderings, prints, and models drawn from archives all across the New York metropolitan region tell stories of a new New York, one that surely would have changed the way we inhabit and move through the city.

Book Finding Lost Space

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roger Trancik
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 1991-01-16
  • ISBN : 9780471289562
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Finding Lost Space written by Roger Trancik and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1991-01-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem of "lost space," or the inadequate use of space, afflicts most urban centers today. The automobile, the effects of the Modern Movement in architectural design, urban-renewal and zoning policies, the dominance of private over public interests, as well as changes in land use in the inner city have resulted in the loss of values and meanings that were traditionally associated with urban open space. This text offers a comprehensive and systematic examination of the crisis of the contemporary city and the means by which this crisis can be addressed. Finding Lost Space traces leading urban spatial design theories that have emerged over the past eighty years: the principles of Sitte and Howard; the impact of and reactions to the Functionalist movement; and designs developed by Team 10, Robert Venturi, the Krier brothers, and Fumihiko Maki, to name a few. In addition to discussions of historic precedents, contemporary approaches to urban spatial design are explored. Detailed case studies of Boston, Massachusetts; Washington, D.C.; Goteborg, Sweden; and the Byker area of Newcastle, England demonstrate the need for an integrated design approach--one that considers figure-ground, linkage, and place theories of urban spatial design. These theories and their individual strengths and weaknesses are defined and applied in the case studies, demonstrating how well they operate in different contexts. This text will prove invaluable for students and professionals in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning. Finding Lost Space is going to be a primary text for the urban designers of the next generation. It is the first book in the field to absorb the lessons of the postmodern reaction, including the work of the Krier brothers and many others, and to integrate these into a coherent theory and set of design guidelines. Without polemics, Roger Trancik addresses the biggest issue in architecture and urbanism today: how can we regain in our shattered cities a public realm that is made of firmly shaped, coherently linked, humanly meaningful urban spaces? Robert Campbell, AIA Architect and architecture critic Boston Globe

Book Raymond Hood and the American Skyscraper

Download or read book Raymond Hood and the American Skyscraper written by Jonathan Duval and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogue from the exhibition "Raymond Hood and the American Skyscraper.," David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University. Curated by Jo-Ann Conklin, Jonathan Duval, and Dietrich Neumann. Essays by Jonathan Duval and Dietrich Neumann. 48 pages; 49 illustrations. size 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 ins.

Book The Chicago Tribune Tower Competition

Download or read book The Chicago Tribune Tower Competition written by Katherine Solomonson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-11-15 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1922, the Chicago Tribune sponsored an international competition to design its new corporate headquarters. Both a serious design contest and a brilliant publicity stunt, the competition received worldwide attention for the hundreds of submissions—from the sublime to the ridiculous—it garnered. In this lavishly illustrated book, Katherine Solomonson tells the fascinating story of the competition, the diverse architectural designs it attracted, and its lasting impact. She shows how the Tribune used the competition to position itself as a civic institution whose new headquarters would serve as a defining public monument for Chicago. For architects, planners, and others, the competition sparked influential debates over the design and social functions of skyscrapers. It also played a crucial role in the development of advertising, consumer culture, and a new national identity in the turbulent years after World War I.

Book New York Deco  Limited Edition

Download or read book New York Deco Limited Edition written by and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2008-08-19 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York calls to mind many things: the Chrysler Building with its innovative design and sunburst pattern, the Empire State building with its amazing views and dominating size, Rockefeller Center seamlessly merging commerce and art. Each of these cherished pieces of New York were created during one of the city's most stylish and dazzling decades: the 1920s and 30s. New York Deco profiles this magnificent period of creativity in architecture when art deco thrived with its emphasis on machinetooled elegance and sleek lines. Many of the New York City landmarks were born of this age, as well as dozens of lesser-known office buildings and apartment houses. Together, they make the skyline of the Big Apple what it is today. Richard Berenholtz's "extraordinary" and "voluptuous" photographs have offered the best of New York in the large scale New York New York and Panoramic New York and now brilliantly highlight the finest examples of NYC's art deco architecture. Berenholtz's photography is accompanied by text from writers, artists, and personalities of the era, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ogden Nash, and Frank Lloyd Wright to create a wonderful celebration of the era. A perfect gift for the New Yorker and tourist alike, this gem of a book is a window into one of city's most divine periods. This new edition is deluxe in every way: it is 25% larger, has a cloth case with foil stamping encased in a cloth slipcase, also with foil stamping, and a hand-tipped image, with shrinkwrapping. It contains six gatefolds not included in the original edition, bringing the new page count to 184 from 160 pages. Includes a limited edition print of the Chrysler Building, signed and number by the photographer. Limited to 5,000 copies.

Book Raymond Hood  Architect

Download or read book Raymond Hood Architect written by Walter Harrington Kilham and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating study of the man who did much to change the form of the modern skyscraper. Hood's functionalism and artistic sense and his psychological and technical tactics as an innovator are spotlighted. The book reveals Hood's method of working on actual projects, such as the Rockefeller Centre and the Daily News Building, with the personalities and business politics, as well as structural details, materials and use of space.

Book Supreme City

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  • Author : Donald L. Miller
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2015-05-19
  • ISBN : 1416550208
  • Pages : 784 pages

Download or read book Supreme City written by Donald L. Miller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning historian surveys the astonishing cast of characters who helped turn Manhattan into the world capital of commerce, communication and entertainment --

Book Form Follows Finance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carol Willis
  • Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
  • Release : 1995-11
  • ISBN : 9781568980447
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Form Follows Finance written by Carol Willis and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1995-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contrast to standard histories that counterpose the design philosophies of the Chicago and New York "schools," Form Follows Finance shows how market formulas produced characteristic forms in each city - "vernaculars of capitalism" - that resulted from local land-use patterns, municipal codes, and zoning. Refuting some common cliches of skyscraper history such as the equation of big buildings with big business and the idea of a "corporate skyline," this book emphasizes the importance of speculative development and the impact of real estate cycles on the forms of buildings.

Book The Skyscraper

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  • Author : Paul Goldberger
  • Publisher : Lane, Allen
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN : 9780713914757
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book The Skyscraper written by Paul Goldberger and published by Lane, Allen. This book was released on 1982 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Metropolis of Tomorrow

Download or read book The Metropolis of Tomorrow written by Hugh Ferriss and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The metropolis of the future — as perceived by architect Hugh Ferriss in 1929 — was both generous and prophetic in vision. This illustrated essay on the modern city and its future features 59 illustrations.

Book Spacemate

    Book Details:
  • Author : Meta Berghauser Pont
  • Publisher : IOS Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 92 pages

Download or read book Spacemate written by Meta Berghauser Pont and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to the rising pressure of urbanization and the desire to create mixed environments, questions arise as to how and to what degree this desire can be met and optimized. Concerning this issue we must address not only quantitative matters (maximizing the number of square meters), but also the associated qualitative consequences. The situation calls for a set of instruments by which space usage can be assessed both quantitatively and qualitatively. Creating a link between the programme of requirements and the spatial objectives during the first phases of the planning process is often quite problematic. With the introduction of Spacemate, the linkage between densities on the one hand and residential environments, building typologies and the degree of urbanization on the other is clearly set out. Spacemate is thus an affective instrument for describing space usage in both quantitative and qualitative terms.