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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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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis
: University of Minnesota Press
, 2015
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| Online Access: | http://kunst.proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/fid/upso-ebooks-art/dx.doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816673186.001.0001 |
| Related Items: | Erscheint auch als:
Impossible heights |
| Author Notes: | Adnan Morshed |
| E-Book Packages: | Oxford University Press : Minnesota Scholarship Online / Architecture |
| Summary: | '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. |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (1 online resource (xi, 291 pages)) |
| ISBN: | 9781452947549 |
