The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered: The Search for a Skyscraper Style

The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered: The Search for a Skyscraper Style

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"A fine survey of skyscraper history [and] a timely call for some hard thinking about the kind of monuments our civilization will leave behind. . . . Huxtable's scrappy spirit is in top form."

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The skyscraper is the building type that dominates our cities, absorbs vast amounts of capital in design, construction and maintenance, and houses large numbers of people in offices and apartments. Ada Louise HuxtableAmerica's most acclaimed architecture critic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur Prize Fellowoffers here an energetic defense of cities and a brilliant consideration of the skyscraper as art, as business, as the product of politics and speculation.

The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered: The Search for a Skyscraper Style

The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered: The Search for a Skyscraper Style,Ada Louise Huxtable,University of California Press,0520080289,Architecture,Architecture Of Specific Structures,Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings,Skyscrapers,Sociology - Urban

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