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Van Leeuwen, Thomas A.P.

The Skyward Trend of Thought: The Metaphysics of the American Skyscraper

Cambridge (Mass) MIT Press 1988.,

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ISBN
0262220342
Autor
Van Leeuwen, Thomas A.P.
Editores
Cambridge (Mass) MIT Press 1988.
Materia
Americana
Descripción
As New
Descripción
H
Sobrecubierta
Conservación
Como nuevo
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Copia autógrafa
No
Primera edición
No

Descripción

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