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Book The Skyscraper and the City

Download or read book The Skyscraper and the City written by Gail Fenske and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once the world’s tallest skyscraper, the Woolworth Building is noted for its striking but incongruous synthesis of Beaux-Arts architecture, fanciful Gothic ornamentation, and audacious steel-framed engineering. Here, in the first history of this great urban landmark, Gail Fenske argues that its design serves as a compelling lens through which to view the distinctive urban culture of Progressive-era New York. Fenske shows here that the building’s multiplicity of meanings reflected the cultural contradictions that defined New York City’s modernity. For Frank Woolworth—founder of the famous five-and-dime store chain—the building served as a towering trademark, for advocates of the City Beautiful movement it suggested a majestic hotel de ville, for technological enthusiasts it represented the boldest of experiments in vertical construction, and for tenants it provided an evocative setting for high-style consumption. Tourists, meanwhile, experienced a spectacular sightseeing destination and avant-garde artists discovered a twentieth-century future. In emphasizing this faceted significance, Fenske illuminates the process of conceiving, financing, and constructing skyscrapers as well as the mass phenomena of consumerism, marketing, news media, and urban spectatorship that surround them. As the representative example of the skyscraper as a “cathedral of commerce,” the Woolworth Building remains a commanding presence in the skyline of lower Manhattan, and the generously illustrated Skyscraper and the City is a worthy testament to its importance in American culture.

Book Cass Gilbert Life And Work

Download or read book Cass Gilbert Life And Work written by Barbara S Christen and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001-12-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteen essays, by a diverse group of historians and others who experience and study Gilbert's buildings in their professional lives, detail the intricate relationship between Gilbert's work and the longstanding tradition of public architecture in America. This volume examines Gilbert's work in five unique categories: the building of a national practice, an evaluation of his Minnesota State Capitol as "a defining moment" in American civic architecture, his New York career, his response to civic ideals in his plans for towns and universities, and his work in the public domain.

Book Cass Gilbert

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cass Gilbert
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book Cass Gilbert written by Cass Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book St  Paul s Architecture

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeffrey A. Hess
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1452904812
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book St Paul s Architecture written by Jeffrey A. Hess and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the grand boulevard of Summit Avenue to the gleaming State Capitol, St. Paul's Architecture presents more than 225 notable surviving buildings and the history of several neighborhoods in the city. With historical photographs and illustrations, this engaging book is a valuable resource not only for those interested in architectural heritage but also for anyone who admires St. Paul's unique beauty and charm.

Book Architects to the Nation

Download or read book Architects to the Nation written by Antoinette J. Lee and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book traces the evolution and accomplishments of the office that from 1852 until 1939 held a virtual monopoly over federal building design. Among its more memorable buildings are the Italianate U.S. Mint in Carson City, the huge granite pile of the State, War, and Navy Building in Washington, D.C., the towering U.S. Post Office in Nashville, New York City's neo-Renaissance customhouse, and such "restorations" as the ancient adobe Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe. In tracing the evolution of the Office and its creative output, Antoinette J. Lee evokes the nation's considerable efforts to achieve an appropriate civic architecture.

Book Minnesota History

Download or read book Minnesota History written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 6 includes the 23d Biennial report of the Society, 1923/24, as an extra number.

Book Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects

Download or read book Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects written by Adolf K. Placzek and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lost Twin Cities

    Book Details:
  • Author : Larry Millett
  • Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 0873512731
  • Pages : 351 pages

Download or read book Lost Twin Cities written by Larry Millett and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1993 American Institute of Architects International Architecture Book Award

Book The Architecture of Edwin Lundie

Download or read book The Architecture of Edwin Lundie written by Dale Mulfinger and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout a fifty-year career in St. Paul, architect Edwin H. Lundie (1886-1972) designed more than three hundred projects, predominantly residences. His architectural designs, along with the Prairie School inventions of Purcell and Elmslie and the modernist themes of Ralph Rapson, are collectively considered the best work of Minnesota architects in the 20th century. What set Lundie apart from his colleagues was his devotion to detail and love of fine craftsmanship. This book documents Lundie's architecture through color photography, plan graphics, and his drawings and renderings.

Book Encyclopedia of American Art Before 1914

Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Art Before 1914 written by Jane Turner and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This alphabetically arranged volume covers all the major artistic developments in the USA from the Colonial period until 1914, with the start of World War I.

Book Twin Cities Then and Now

Download or read book Twin Cities Then and Now written by Larry Millett and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 1996 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twin Cities: Then and Now is an engaging, startling, and at times heartbreaking look at the dramatic evolution of landscapes in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Larry Millett, author of Lost Twin Cities, explores the changing appearances of Minneapolis and St. Paul from the vantage point of their relatively static streets. Seventy-two historic photographs taken from the 1880s to the late 1950s, are paired with Jerry Mathiason's elegant new black-and-white photographs to provide superb visual comparisons between then and now. Millett's lively and informative essays examine the often astonishing changes wrought by time and circumstance. Maps and detailed informational graphics provide orientation and identify hundreds of significant buildings and places in the photographs.

Book Venice

    Book Details:
  • Author : Margaretta M. Lovell
  • Publisher : Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Venice written by Margaretta M. Lovell and published by Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. This book was released on 1984 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Minnesota Architect

Download or read book Minnesota Architect written by Paul Clifford Larson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a practice that spanned fifty-four years (1882-1936), Clarence Johnston designed more buildings than any other figure in Minnesota's history. As Minnesota State Architect for thirty years, Johnston designed virtually all the buildings on thirty-five state-owned sites and campuses including the University of Minnesota, and he was also the most sought-after residential architect for two generations of St. Paul's upper classes. Forty-two of his designs line Summit Avenue alone, one of the most famous and best-preserved Victorian boulevards in America.

Book Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

Download or read book Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians written by Society of Architectural Historians and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes special issues.

Book Inventing the Skyline

Download or read book Inventing the Skyline written by Cass Gilbert and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each discussion illuminates different aspects of Gilbert's work, including the administrative structure of his office and his relationship with engineers, contractors, and clients; his designs for skyscrapers; his work as an urban planner; and his office's use of architectural drawings."--BOOK JACKET.

Book The COPAR Newsletters 1974 1980 and 1980 1985

Download or read book The COPAR Newsletters 1974 1980 and 1980 1985 written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Architects of Little Rock

Download or read book Architects of Little Rock written by Charles Witsell and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fay Jones School of Architecture, University of Arkansas Press, a collaboration, Fayettville 2014"--Page 4 of cover.