Impossible heights : skyscrapers, flight and the master builder /

Impossible heights : skyscrapers, flight and the master builder /

" The advent of the airplane and skyscraper in 1920s and '30s America offered the population an entirely new way to look at the world: from above. The captivating image of an airplane flying over the rising metropolis led many Americans to believe a new civilization had dawned. In Impossib...

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Bibliografiske detaljer
Hovedforfatter:	Morshed, Adnan
Format:	Bog
Sprog:	English
Udgivet:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2015
Fag:	Architecture and society > United States > History > 20th century. Technological innovations > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century. Architecture, Modern > 20th century > Philosophy. Aeronautics and civilization. Architecture
Classic Catalogue:	View this record in Classic Catalogue

Lignende værker

The origins of modern architecture : selected essays from "architectural record" /
Udgivet: (1998)

Reading the architecture of the underprivileged classes : a perspective on the protests and upheavals in our cities /
Udgivet: (2014)

Architecture and modernity : a critique /
af: Heynen, Hilde
Udgivet: (1999)

Richard Meier, architect, 1964/1984 /
af: Meier, Richard, 1934-
Udgivet: (1984)

Making American foreign policy /
af: Rourke, John T.
Udgivet: (1996)

Deconstructing the American mosque : space, gender, and aesthetics /
af: Kahera, Akel Ismail, 1951-
Udgivet: (2002)

Ecological architecture : a critical history /
af: Steele, James, 1943-
Udgivet: (2005)

World airports : vision and reality, culture and technique, past and present : buildings and projects by Paul Andreu, Hans-Busso von Busse & Partner ... = Weltflughäfen : Vision und Realität, Kultur und Technik, Geschichte und Gegenwart /
af: Cuadra, Manuel, 1952-
Udgivet: (2002)

Isolationism : opposing viewpoints /
Udgivet: (1995)

Bide Aisenman = Peter Eisenman /
af: Eisenman, Peter, 1932-
Udgivet: (2004)

Celebrating the American home : 50 great houses from 50 American architects /
af: Bouknight, Joanne Kellar
Udgivet: (2005)

Measuring up : the performance ethic in American culture /
af: Mannon, James M., 1942-
Udgivet: (1997)

New American urbanism : re-forming the suburban metropolis /
af: Dutton, John A.
Udgivet: (2000)

Modern architecture since 1900 /
af: Curtis, William J. R.
Udgivet: (1996)

Programmes and manifestoes on 20th-century architecture /
Udgivet: (1971)

Contemporary world architecture /
af: Pearman, Hugh
Udgivet: (1998)

Twentieth-century classics /
Udgivet: (1999)

World architecture 1900-2000 : a critical mosaic /
Udgivet: (2000)

The power of contemporary architecture /
Udgivet: (1999)

Airuike Ouwen Mosi, Cha'ersi Keliya = Eric Owen Moss, Charles Correa /
af: Moss, Eric Owen
Udgivet: (2004)

Architecture and independence : the search for identity--India 1880 to 1980 /
af: Lang, Jon T.
Udgivet: (1997)

Contemporary architecture, Bangladesh /
Udgivet: (1990)

ATFD : 96R : Advanced technology facilities design : 1996 review /
Udgivet: (1996)

Site planning for cluster housing /
af: Untermann, Richard K.
Udgivet: (1977)

The rational public : fifty years of trends in Americans' policy preferences /
af: Page, Benjamin I.
Udgivet: (1992)

Parallax /
af: Holl, Steven
Udgivet: (2000)

The best in leisure and public architecture /
af: Phillips, Alan, 1947 Jan. 20-
Udgivet: (1993)

Building change : architecture, politics and cultural agency /
af: Findley, Lisa, 1955-
Udgivet: (2005)

Muzharul Islam : architect /
Udgivet: (2011)

Programs and manifestoes on 20th-century architecture /
Udgivet: (1970)

Light, air & openness : modern architecture between the wars /
af: Overy, Paul, 1940-2008
Udgivet: (2007)

Radical tectonics /
af: LeCuyer, Annette W.
Udgivet: (2001)

Theorizing a new agenda for architecture : an anthology of architectural theory, 1965-1995 /
Udgivet: (1996)

Modern architecture /
af: Colquhoun, Alan, 1921-
Udgivet: (2002)

Questions of perception : phenomenology of architecture /
af: Holl, Steven
Udgivet: (2006)

Alvaro Siza : complete works /
af: Frampton, Kenneth
Udgivet: (2000)

Extract II : CSL Associates /
Udgivet: (1993)

Richard Meier, architect : 1985/1991 /
af: Meier, Richard, 1934-
Udgivet: (1991)

Building in the garden : the architecture of Joseph Allen Stein in India and California /
af: Stein, Joseph Allen
Udgivet: (1998)

Architecture and the environment : bioclimatic building design /
af: Jones, David Lloyd, 1942-
Udgivet: (1998)