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Cruickshank, Dan

 
9781786691187: Skyscraper (Landmark Library, 8, Band 8)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1786691183 ISBN 13: 9781786691187
Verlag: Head of Zeus, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Chicago's beautiful Reliance Building, sixteen storeys tall, was designed in 1890 by John Root and completed in 1895 by Charles B. Atwood. In its construction – metal frame, large areas of plate glass, fire-proof brick and terracotta cladding – it pioneers all the key elements of twentieth-century high-rise architecture, and many of the tenets of Modernism.

Cruickshank reflects on the extraordinary architectural, artistic and engineering world of the 1890s and its great figures such as Daniel H. Burnham, Louis Sullivan and William Le Baron Jenney. He looks forward to the Reliance building's immediate progeny, such as the 1902 Flatiron Building in New York and to the hubristic high-rise architecture of the twenty-first century.

This is also the story of Gilded Age Chicago, which was burned to the ground in 1871. The city – corrupt, violent and fabulously wealthy – was ready to try anything, even revolutionary forms of architecture.

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Dan Cruickshank is a distinguished historian of art and architecture. He has also written and presented many BBC series on the built environment.



Dan Cruickshank is a distinguished historian of art and architecture. He has also written and presented many BBC series on the built environment.
Dan Cruickshank is a distinguished historian of art and architecture. He has also written and presented many BBC series on the built environment.

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Verlag
Head of Zeus
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1786691183
ISBN 13 
9781786691187
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
304
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