Impossible heights : skyscrapers, flight, and the master builder

'Impossible Heights' examines a distinct American cultural consciousness that came into focus during the interwar years, with the excitement about aeroplanes and skyscrapers, as well as their anticipated roles in the creation of an ideal 'world of tomorrow'. The book explores how...

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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Morshed, Adnan (Awdur)
Fformat: Online Resource Llyfr
Iaith:English
Cyhoeddwyd: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2015
Pynciau:
USA
Fliegen
Hochhaus
Architektur
Vogelschaubild
Geschichte 1900-1950
Fuller, Richard Buckminster
Mynediad Ar-lein:http://kunst.proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/fid/upso-ebooks-art/dx.doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816673186.001.0001
Eitemau Perthynol:Erscheint auch als: Impossible heights
Nodiadau'r Awdur:Adnan Morshed
E-Book Packages:Oxford University Press : Minnesota Scholarship Online / Architecture
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Crynodeb:'Impossible Heights' examines a distinct American cultural consciousness that came into focus during the interwar years, with the excitement about aeroplanes and skyscrapers, as well as their anticipated roles in the creation of an ideal 'world of tomorrow'. The book explores how this 'aesthetics of ascension' contributed to a broader transformation of the architect as a master builder, whose idealistic perspective from above ushered in a modernist impulse to ameliorate the spatial and social problems of an allegedly chaotic world.
Disgrifiad Corfforoll:Online-Ressource (1 online resource (xi, 291 pages))
ISBN:9781452947549

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