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Livres anciens et modernes

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
Auteur
Van Leeuwen, Thomas A.P.
Éditeurs
Cambridge (Mass) MIT Press 1988.
Thème
Americana
Description
As New
Description
H
Jaquette
Oui
Etat de conservation
Comme neuf
Reliure
Couverture rigide
Dédicacée
Non
Premiére Edition
Non

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