Inventing The Skyline
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Inventing The Skyline
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Author : Cass Gilbert
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2000
Inventing The Skyline written by Cass Gilbert and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Architecture categories.
Each discussion illuminates different aspects of Gilbert's work, including the administrative structure of his office and his relationship with engineers, contractors, and clients; his designs for skyscrapers; his work as an urban planner; and his office's use of architectural drawings."--BOOK JACKET.
The Skyscraper And The City
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Author : Gail Fenske
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-08
The Skyscraper And The City written by Gail Fenske and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08 with Architecture categories.
Once the world’s tallest skyscraper, the Woolworth Building is noted for its striking but incongruous synthesis of Beaux-Arts architecture, fanciful Gothic ornamentation, and audacious steel-framed engineering. Here, in the first history of this great urban landmark, Gail Fenske argues that its design serves as a compelling lens through which to view the distinctive urban culture of Progressive-era New York. Fenske shows here that the building’s multiplicity of meanings reflected the cultural contradictions that defined New York City’s modernity. For Frank Woolworth—founder of the famous five-and-dime store chain—the building served as a towering trademark, for advocates of the City Beautiful movement it suggested a majestic hotel de ville, for technological enthusiasts it represented the boldest of experiments in vertical construction, and for tenants it provided an evocative setting for high-style consumption. Tourists, meanwhile, experienced a spectacular sightseeing destination and avant-garde artists discovered a twentieth-century future. In emphasizing this faceted significance, Fenske illuminates the process of conceiving, financing, and constructing skyscrapers as well as the mass phenomena of consumerism, marketing, news media, and urban spectatorship that surround them. As the representative example of the skyscraper as a “cathedral of commerce,” the Woolworth Building remains a commanding presence in the skyline of lower Manhattan, and the generously illustrated Skyscraper and the City is a worthy testament to its importance in American culture.
The American Skyscraper 1850 1940
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Author : Joseph J. Korom
language : en
Publisher: Branden Books
Release Date : 2008
The American Skyscraper 1850 1940 written by Joseph J. Korom and has been published by Branden Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Architecture categories.
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 Millionaires
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Author : Inman Majors
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 2009
The Millionaires written by Inman Majors and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Fiction categories.
This brilliant novel of new money and old manners introduces the Cole brothers, charismatic country boys with more money than God. The quiet center of the story is Mike Teague, the Coles' advisor, who knows all the family's secrets.
Inventions Available For Licensing
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Inventions Available For Licensing written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Agricultural inventions categories.
Skyplane
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Author : Richard Francis-Jones
language : en
Publisher: UNSW Press
Release Date : 2009
Skyplane written by Richard Francis-Jones and has been published by UNSW Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Airplanes categories.
In Skyplane, some of architecture's leading thinkers and practitioners examine both the global phenomenon of the tall building and its adaptation to the Asian-Pacific context, addressing the following questions: What effect do towers have on our culture and urbanism, environmental sustainability, building economics, the workplace and historic city centres? Can such giants be humane and made more formally engaging? Can architectural influence go beyond the façade or cope with self-aggrandisement and rampant symbolism?
Representing Justice
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Author : Judith Resnik
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2011-01-01
Representing Justice written by Judith Resnik and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with Law categories.
A remnant of the Renaissance : the transnational iconography of justice -- Civic space, the public square, and good governance -- Obedience : the judge as the loyal servant of the state -- Of eyes and ostriches -- Why eyes? : color, blindness, and impartiality -- Representations and abstractions : identity, politics, and rights -- From seventeenth-century town halls to twentieth-century courts -- A building and litigation boom in Twentieth-Century federal courts -- Late Twentieth-Century United States courts : monumentality, security, and eclectic imagery -- Monuments to the present and museums of the past : national courts (and prisons) -- Constructing regional rights -- Multi-jurisdictional premises : from peace to crimes -- From "rites" to "rights" -- Courts : in and out of sight, site, and cite -- An iconography for democratic adjudication.
All Safe Gentlemen All Safe
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Author : Spencer Klaw
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
All Safe Gentlemen All Safe written by Spencer Klaw and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Elevators categories.
Of the mechanical wonders placed on view in the Crystal Palace, the great exhibition hall erected in New York City in 1853 to house America's first world's fair, one of the most popular was a towering machine that was destined to transform the look of the world's cities and the feel of city life. The machine was a freight hoist, or elevator and was the invention of a factory engineer named Elisha Graves Otis.
Agricultural Inventions Catalog
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Agricultural Inventions Catalog written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Agricultural inventions categories.
Re Inventing The Postcolonial In The Metropolis
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Author : Cecile Sandten
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-09-27
Re Inventing The Postcolonial In The Metropolis written by Cecile Sandten and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
The notion of the postcolonial metropolis has gained prominence in the last two decades both within and beyond postcolonial studies. Disciplines such as sociology and urban studies, however, have tended to focus on the economic inequalities, class disparities, and other structural and formative aspects of the postcolonial metropolises that are specific to Western conceptions of the city at large. It is only recently that the depiction of postcolonial metropolises has been addressed in the writings of Suketu Mehta, Chris Abani, Amit Chaudhuri, Salman Rushdie, Aravind Adiga, Helon Habila, Sefi Atta, and Zakes Mda, among others. Most of these works probe the urban specifics and physical and cultural topographies of postcolonial cities while highlighting their agential capacity to defy, appropriate, and abrogate the superimposition of theories of Western modernity and urbanism. These ASNEL Papers are all concerned with the idea of the postcolonial (in the) metropolis from various disciplinary viewpoints, as drawn from a great range of cityscapes (spread out over five continents). The essays explore, on the one hand, ideas of spatial subdivision and inequality, political repression, social discrimination, economic exploitation, and cultural alienation, and, on the other, the possibility of transforming, reinventing and reconfigurating the ‘postcolonial condition’ in and through literary texts and visual narratives. In this context, the volume covers a broad spectrum of theoretical and thematic approaches to postcolonial and metropolitan topographies and their depictions in writings from Australia and New Zealand, South Africa, South Asia, and greater Asia, as well as the UK, addressing issues such as modernity and market economies but also caste, class, and social and linguistic aspects. At the same time, they reflect on the postcolonial metropolis and postcolonialism in the metropolis by concentrating on an urban imaginary which turns on notions of spatial subdivision and inequality, political repression, social discrimination, economic exploitation, and cultural alienation – as the continuing ‘postcolonial’ condition.