The Skyward Trend of Thought: The Metaphysics of the American Skyscraper
The Skyward Trend of Thought: The Metaphysics of the American Skyscraper | Livres anciens et modernes | Van Leeuwen, Thomas A.P.
Livres anciens et modernes
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 | Livres anciens et modernes | Van Leeuwen, Thomas A.P.
Livres anciens et modernes
Van Leeuwen, Thomas A.P.
Cambridge (Mass) MIT Press 1988.,
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Détails
- ISBN
- 0262220342
- Auteur
- Van Leeuwen, Thomas A.P.
- Éditeurs
- Cambridge (Mass) MIT Press 1988.
- Thème
- Americana
- Description
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- Description
- H
- Jaquette
- True
- Etat de conservation
- Comme neuf
- Reliure
- Couverture rigide
- Dédicacée
- False
- Premiére Edition
- False
Description
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
