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1 online resource |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Pages:1 to 25; Pages:26 to 50; Pages:51 to 75; Pages:76 to 100; Pages:101 to 125; Pages:126 to 150; Pages:151 to 175; Pages:176 to 200; Pages:201 to 225; Pages:226 to 240. |
| Summary |
"Of all building types, the skyscraper strikes observers as the most modern, in terms not only of height but also of boldness, scale, ingenuity, and daring. As a phenomenon born in late nineteenth-century America, it quickly became emblematic of New York, Chicago, and other major cities. Previous studies of these structures have tended to foreground examples of more evincing modernist approaches, while those with styles reminiscent of the great Gothic cathedrals of Europe were initially disparaged as being antimodernist or were simply unacknowledged. Skyscraper Gothic brings together a group of renowned scholars to address the medievalist skyscraper--from flying buttresses to dizzying spires; from the Chicago Tribune Tower to the Woolworth Building in Manhattan. Drawing on archival evidence and period texts to uncover the ways in which patrons and architects came to understand the Gothic as a historic style, the authors explore what the appearance of Gothic forms on radically new buildings meant urbanistically, architecturally, and socially, not only for those who were involved in the actual conceptualization and execution of the projects but also for the critics and the general public who saw the buildings take shape."--Publisher's description. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Architecture -- United States -- Medieval influences.
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Architecture. |
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United States. |
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Architecture, Gothic -- Influence.
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Architecture, Gothic -- Influence. |
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Architecture, Gothic. |
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Skyscrapers -- United States.
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Skyscrapers. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Reilly, Lisa A., editor.
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Murphy, Kevin D., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Skyscraper gothic. London : University of Virginia Press, 2017 9780813939728 0813939720 (DLC) 2016053410 (OCoLC)964065460 |
| ISBN |
9780813939735 (electronic book) |
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0813939739 (electronic book) |
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9780813939728 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0813939720 |
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