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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| Natura: | Libro |
| Lingua: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2015
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Sommario:
- Introduction : The Aesthetics of Ascension
- Hugh Ferriss and the "Harmonious Development of Man"
- Ascension as Autobiography : Buckminster Fuller and His "Land to Sky, Outward Progression"
- The Master Builder as Superman : Norman Bel Geddes's Futurama
- Epilogue : The God's-Eye Vision.