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Title Skyscraper : the search for an American style, 1891-1941 : annotated extracts from the first 50 years of Architectural record / edited by Roger Shepherd
Publication Info New York : McGraw-Hill, c2003
Location Call Number Status
 Watson Library Stacks  NA6232 .S52 2003    REQUESTABLE
Description xxiii, 297 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Series An architectural record book
Contents Prologue: The Sky-Scraper Problem: A Question of Style -- Modern Architecture - A Conversation / Harry W. Desmond -- Architectural Record Through 75 Years / Emerson Cole -- By Way of Introduction / Harry W. Desmond -- 1. New Conditions/New Forms: The Promise of Function -- Skeleton Construction: The New Method of Constructing High Buildings / William J. Fryer, Jr. -- Iron Construction in New York City: Past and Future / Louis de Coppet Berg -- 2. Brave New World: An Architecture for Our Time -- Last Words About The World's Fair / Montgomery Schuyler -- Modern Architecture / Montgomery Schuyler -- The "Sky-Scraper" Up-to-Date / Montgomery Schuyler -- Architectural Appreciations - No. II: The "Flatiron" or Fuller Building -- 3. Between Two Worlds: The Education of the Architect -- The Evolution of a Skyscraper / Montgomery Schuyler -- A Beaux-Arts Skyscraper - The Blair Building, New York City / Henry W. Desmond -- A Rational Skyscraper / Henry W. Desmond -- 4. The Commercial Problem: An Image of the People -- The Economy of the Office Building / George Hill -- The Art of High Building / Barre Ferree -- The First Concrete Skyscraper / A. O. Elzner -- The Schlesinger & Mayer Building: An Attempt to Give Functional Expression to the Architecture of a Department Store / Lyndon P. Smith -- Another View - What Mr. Louis Sullivan Stands For / H. W. Desmond -- 5. Truth, Goodness, and Beauty: The Fine Art of Architecture -- A Plea for Beauty / Alfred Hoyt Granger -- Some Recent Skyscrapers / Montgomery Schuyler -- The Larkin Building in Buffalo / Russell Sturgis -- Architecture in the United States III: The Skyscraper / Claude Bragdon -- The Crown of the Skyscraper / Charles Cressey -- Additions to Chicago's Skyline: A Few Recent Skyscrapers / Peter B. Wight -- The New Architecture: The First American Type of Real Value / A. C. David -- The Towers of Manhattan and Notes on the Woolworth Building / Montgomery Schuyler -- 6. Subject to Change: The Expanding Change -- Twenty-Five Years of American Architecture / A. D. F. Hamlin -- The Chicago Tribune Competition / Louis H. Sulliyan -- The American Radiator Building, New York City: Raymond M. Hood, Architect / Harvey Wiley Corbett -- 7. Lessons Soon Forgotten: The Passing of a Prophet -- Louis Sullivan - An Old Master / Fiske Kimball -- The Evolution of an Architectural Design: The Tribune Building Tower Chicago / Leon V. Solon -- 8. Restless Object: The Search for Something More -- The Park Avenue Building, New York City: The Evolution of a Style / Leon V. Solon -- Economics of the Skyscraper / Ely Jacques Kahn -- American Architecture Today - Part I: The Search for "Something More" / Lewis Mumford -- In the Cause of Architecture VII: Sheet Metal and the Modern Instance / Frank Lloyd Wright -- St. Mark's Tower: St. Mark's in the Bouwerie, New York City -- 9. Advantage in Magnitude: Apotheosis of the Tall Building -- The Economic Design of Office Buildings / R. H. Shreve -- What is the Rockefeller Radio City? / L. Andrew Reinhard -- Metropolitan Life Insurance Company: New Home Office Building in New York City / D. Everett Waid and Harvey Wiley Corbett -- Epilogue: The International Style Twenty Years After / Henry Russell Hitchcock
Summary "This consideration of the skyscraper explores the meanings, dimensions, and resonances of these notable structures - literally the highest achievements of our civilization. Featuring both historical and current commentary, Skyscraper offers a unique opportunity to see the tall building through the eyes of critics contemporary to their creation, as well as to evaluate its impact, influence, and development during the century-plus of its existence."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Series statement on jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]) and index
Subjects Skyscrapers -- United States
Architectural criticism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Additional Authors Shepherd, Roger.
Other Title Architectural record
Series Architectural record book.
Other Edition Online version: Skyscraper. (OCoLC)606926491
ISBN 0071369708 (acid-free paper)
OCLC 50960815