The American Skyscraper, 1850-1940

The American Skyscraper, 1850-1940
Title The American Skyscraper, 1850-1940 PDF eBook
Author Joseph J. Korom
Publisher Branden Books
Pages 552
Release 2008
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9780828321884

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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.

The Black Skyscraper

The Black Skyscraper
Title The Black Skyscraper PDF eBook
Author Adrienne Brown
Publisher JHU Press
Pages 277
Release 2017-11-15
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1421423839

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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.

The American Skyscraper

The American Skyscraper
Title The American Skyscraper PDF eBook
Author Roberta Moudry
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 316
Release 2005-05-09
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9780521624213

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The Skyscraper in American Art, 1890-1931

The Skyscraper in American Art, 1890-1931
Title The Skyscraper in American Art, 1890-1931 PDF eBook
Author Merrill Schleier
Publisher
Pages 320
Release 1986
Genre Architecture
ISBN

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Skyscraper Cinema

Skyscraper Cinema
Title Skyscraper Cinema PDF eBook
Author Merrill Schleier
Publisher U of Minnesota Press
Pages 388
Release 2009
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0816642818

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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.

Skyscrapers

Skyscrapers
Title Skyscrapers PDF eBook
Author George H. Douglas
Publisher McFarland
Pages 286
Release 2004-08-19
Genre History
ISBN 9780786420308

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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.

Skyscraper Gothic

Skyscraper Gothic
Title Skyscraper Gothic PDF eBook
Author Kevin D. Murphy estate
Publisher University of Virginia Press
Pages 289
Release 2017-07-06
Genre Architecture
ISBN 0813939739

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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