American Skyscraper

Author : Joseph J. Korom
Publisher : Branden Books
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0828321884

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The American Skyscraper, 1850-1940 by Joseph J. Korom Pdf

The skyscraper is an American invention that has captured the public's imagination for over a century. The tall building is wholly manmade and borne in the minds of those with both slide rules and computers. This is the story of the skyscraper's rise and the recognition of those individuals who contributed to its development. This volume is unique; its approach, information, and images are fresh and telling. The text examines America's first tall buildings -- the result of twelve years of in-depth research by an accomplished and published architect and architectural historian. Over 300 compelling photographs, charts, and notes make this the ultimate tool of reference for this subject. Biographies woven throughout with period norms, politics and lifestyles help to place featured skyscrapers in context. Quite simply, there is no book like this. The text, carefully and insightfully written, is clear, concise, and easily digestible, the text being the product of well-documented original research written in an informative tone. The American Skyscraper 1850-1940: A Celebration of Height is a richly documented journey of a fascinating topic, and it promises to be a superb addition to libraries, schools of architecture, students of architecture, and lovers of art.

Author : Roberta Moudry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0521624215

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Author : George H. Douglas
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0786420308

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Skyscrapers by George H. Douglas Pdf

This history of skyscrapers examines how these tall buildings affected the cityscape and the people who worked in, lived in, and visited them. Much of the focus is rightly on the architects who had the vision to design and build America's skyscrapers, but attention is also given to the steelworkers who built them, the financiers who put up the money, and the daredevils who attempt to "conquer" them in some inexplicable pursuit of fame. The impact of the skyscraper on popular culture, particularly film and literature, is also explored.

Author : Adrienne Brown
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421423838

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The Black Skyscraper by Adrienne Brown Pdf

A highly interdisciplinary work, The Black Skyscraper reclaims the influence of race on modern architectural design as well as the less-well-understood effects these designs had on the experience and perception of race.

Author : Joseph J. Korom, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780786470723

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Skyscraper Facades of the Gilded Age by Joseph J. Korom, Jr. Pdf

This book is about the design of the facade of 51 of America's most extravagant early skyscrapers. Included are the biographies of noted architects and the aristocrats who financed America's first skyscrapers. This book discusses the influences of European aesthetic values in America--and scandals, rogues and class distinctions. Interpretations by contemporary critics are sprinkled throughout the text. Woven throughout the book are inquiries about the validity of Greek and Roman mythologies and their relationships to "modern" America and its spirit of invention and progress. Foreign traditions were challenged by some architects but then accepted by most. Why was it necessary for the long-dead hero of a faraway civilization to be included on the facade of a newly invented American skyscraper? This book tells why.

Author : Merrill Schleier
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1990-03-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015018935455

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The Skyscraper In American Art, 1890-1931 by Merrill Schleier Pdf

Tradition and innovation in the building of the skyscraper - Alfred Stieglitz - Alvin Langdon Coburn - American modernists, Marin, Weber and Walkowitz - Skyscraper mania, 1917-1931 - Art Deco skyscraper and its impact on the arts, 1916-1931 - Urban development, 1917-1931.

Author : David E. Nye
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262542081

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Conflicted American Landscapes by David E. Nye Pdf

How conflicting ideas of nature threaten to fracture America's identity. Amber waves of grain, purple mountain majesties: American invest much of their national identity in sites of natural beauty. And yet American lands today are torn by conflicts over science, religion, identity, and politics. Creationists believe that the Biblical flood carved landscapes less than 10,000 years ago; environmentalists protest pipelines; Western states argue that the federal government's land policies throttle free enterprise; Native Americans demand protection for sacred sites. In this book, David Nye looks at Americans' irreconcilably conflicting ideas about nature. A landscape is conflicted when different groups have different uses for the same location—for example, when some want to open mining sites that others want to preserve or when suburban development impinges on agriculture. Some landscapes are so degraded from careless use that they become toxic “anti-landscapes.” Nye traces these conflicts to clashing conceptions of nature—ranging from pastoral to Native American to military–industrial—that cannot be averaged into a compromise. Nye argues that today’s environmental crisis is rooted in these conflicting ideas about land. Depending on your politics, global warming is either an inconvenient truth or fake news. America’s contradictory conceptions of nature are at the heart of a broken national consensus.

Author : Kevin D. Murphy,Lisa Reilly
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780813939735

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Skyscraper Gothic by Kevin D. Murphy,Lisa Reilly Pdf

Of all building types, the skyscraper strikes observers as the most modern, in terms not only of height but also of boldness, scale, ingenuity, and daring. As a phenomenon born in late nineteenth-century America, it quickly became emblematic of New York, Chicago, and other major cities. Previous studies of these structures have tended to foreground examples of more evincing modernist approaches, while those with styles reminiscent of the great Gothic cathedrals of Europe were initially disparaged as being antimodernist or were simply unacknowledged. Skyscraper Gothic brings together a group of renowned scholars to address the medievalist skyscraper—from flying buttresses to dizzying spires; from the Chicago Tribune Tower to the Woolworth Building in Manhattan. Drawing on archival evidence and period texts to uncover the ways in which patrons and architects came to understand the Gothic as a historic style, the authors explore what the appearance of Gothic forms on radically new buildings meant urbanistically, architecturally, and socially, not only for those who were involved in the actual conceptualization and execution of the projects but also for the critics and the general public who saw the buildings take shape. Contributors: Lisa Reilly on the Gothic skyscraper ● Kevin Murphy on the Trinity and U.S. Realty Buildings ● Gail Fenske on the Woolworth Building ● Joanna Merwood-Salisbury on the Chicago School ● Katherine M. Solomonson on the Tribune Tower ● Carrie Albee on Atlanta City Hall ● Anke Koeth on the Cathedral of Learning ● Christine G. O'Malley on the American Radiator Building

Author : Sharyn R. Udall
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780299288037

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Dance and American Art by Sharyn R. Udall Pdf

From ballet to burlesque, from the frontier jig to the jitterbug, Americans have always loved watching dance, whether in grand ballrooms, on Mississippi riverboats, or in the streets. Dance and American Art is an innovative look at the elusive, evocative nature of dance and the American visual artists who captured it through their paintings, sculpture, photography, and prints from the early nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century. The scores of artists discussed include many icons of American art: Winslow Homer, George Caleb Bingham, Mary Cassatt, James McNeill Whistler, Alexander Calder, Joseph Cornell, Edward Steichen, David Smith, and others. As a subject for visual artists, dance has given new meaning to America’s perennial myths, cherished identities, and most powerful dreams. Their portrayals of dance and dancers, from the anonymous to the famous—Anna Pavlova, Isadora Duncan, Loïe Fuller, Josephine Baker, Martha Graham—have testified to the enduring importance of spatial organization, physical pattern, and rhythmic motion in creating aesthetic form. Through extensive research, sparkling prose, and beautiful color reproductions, art historian Sharyn R. Udall draws attention to the ways that artists’ portrayals of dance have defined the visual character of the modern world and have embodied culturally specific ideas about order and meaning, about the human body, and about the diverse fusions that comprise American culture.

Author : Merrill Schleier
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816642816

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Skyscraper Cinema by Merrill Schleier Pdf

From the silent era until the advent of the Cinemascope--the skyscraper as movie star. Whether tall office buildings, high-rise apartments, or lofty hotels, skyscrapers have been stars in American cinema since the silent era. Cinema's tall buildings have been variously represented as unbridled aspiration, dens of iniquity and eroticism, beacons of democracy, and well-oiled corporate machines. Considering their intriguing diversity, Merrill Schleier establishes and explains the impact of actual skyscrapers on America's ideologies about work, leisure, romance, sexual identity, and politics as seen in Hollywood movies.

Author : Daniel J. Boorstin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1974-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780394710112

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The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin Pdf

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A study of the last 100 years of American history.

Author : Robert Alexander González
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780292723252

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Designing Pan-America by Robert Alexander González Pdf

"This is a significant contribution to the field of critical `orientalist' studies as applied to architecture. . . . This text breaks new scholarly ground by examining a topic that has never been proposed before: the construction of an ideological landscape involving Pan-Americanism." STEPHEN FOX, Fellow of the Anchorage Foundation of Texas and Adjunct Lecturer in Architecture, University of Houston and Rice University --

Author : Jeffrey W. Cody
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135804879

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Exporting American Architecture 1870-2000 by Jeffrey W. Cody Pdf

The export of American architecture began in the nineteenth century as a disjointed set of personal adventures and commercial initiatives. It continues today alongside the transfer of other aspects of American life and culture to most regions of the world. Jeffrey Cody explains how, why and where American architects, planners, building contractors and other actors have marketed American architecture overseas. In so doing he provides a historical perspective on the diffusion of American building technologies, architectural standards, construction methods and planning paradigms. Using previously undocumented examples and illustrations, he shows how steel-frame manufacturers shipped their products abroad enabling the erection of American-style skyscrapers worldwide by 1900 and how this phase was followed by similar initiatives by companies manufacturing concrete components.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1378 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026916564

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The American Architect by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lamia Doumato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033087995

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American Skyscrapers by Lamia Doumato Pdf