The Skyward Trend of Thought: The Metaphysics of the American Skyscraper
The Skyward Trend of Thought: The Metaphysics of the American Skyscraper | Rare and modern books | Van Leeuwen, Thomas A.P.
Rare and modern books
Van Leeuwen, Thomas A.P.
Cambridge (Mass) MIT Press 1988.,
The Skyward Trend of Thought: The Metaphysics of the American Skyscraper
The Skyward Trend of Thought: The Metaphysics of the American Skyscraper | Rare and modern books | Van Leeuwen, Thomas A.P.
Rare and modern books
Van Leeuwen, Thomas A.P.
Cambridge (Mass) MIT Press 1988.,
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- ISBN
- 0262220342
- Author
- Van Leeuwen, Thomas A.P.
- Publishers
- Cambridge (Mass) MIT Press 1988.
- Keyword
- Americana
- Cover description
- As New
- Binding description
- H
- Dust jacket
- True
- State of preservation
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- False
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4to. 176pp, b&w photographs and illus.index. Original cloth with dustwrapper . isbn stated inside the book: 0-262-22034-5. Van Leeuwen postulates that the skyscraper grew out of the American myth that men can create a new city and a new order while echoing the Tower of Babel and the Temple of Jerusalem. He discusses the most eminent proponents of the genre (1870-1935), including Richardson, Sullivan and Saarinen
