NEW YORK 1960; ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM BETWEEN THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND THE BICENTENNIAL. [New York City - Manhattan.]

Stern, Robert A.M. [Robert Arthur Morton Stern]; Thomas Mellins; David Fishman.

ISBN 10: 1885254024 / ISBN 13: 9781885254023

Edité par New York: The Monacelli Press, 1995., 1995

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1374 pages. Hardcover: H 28.75cm x L 22.25cm. No dust jacket (i.e. lacking). Black boards rubbed; some scuffing/bumping at spine ends; spine's gilt lettering still bright. Touch of soiling to text block edges. Eraser rubbing to old pencil notation at front free endpaper's top right; a few leaves have shallowly creased corners; interior pages are otherwise clean. Some mustiness to book from prolonged storage. Binding is firm. Please note that this thick book has an approximate shipping weight of 9 pounds (4.08 kg) and will require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. {Arch-Shelf#2} ISBN 1885254024.

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• Titre: NEW YORK 1960; ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM BETWEEN THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND THE BICENTENNIAL. [New York City - Manhattan.]
• Éditeur: New York: The Monacelli Press, 1995.
• Date de parution: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1885254024
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781885254023
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Architecture

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Synopsis

A comprehensive survey of architecture and urbanism in New York between the years 1945 and 1976, this book examines the significant buildings, redevelopment projects and unbuilt schemes. Organized geographically, it also includes discussion of interiors, the outer boroughs and suburban developments. The text utilizes primary sources as commentary, quoting from critics, architects and designers of the time. All the photographs are from the period. This period was a pivotal era during which New York took on an important international position. The book features some of the more important and visible additions to the city's skyline, such as the Lincoln Center, the Twin Towers, Lever House, the development of the Lower East Side, the building of the United Nations complex, the transformation of Park and Sixth avenues, and the redevelopment of Harlem.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This is the third volume (and the fourth chronologically) in architect and historian Robert A. M. Stern's monumental series of documentary studies of New York City architecture and urbanism. New York 1880, New York 1900, and New York 1930 have comprehensively covered the architects and urban planners who defined New York from the end of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century.

The post-World War II era witnessed New York's reign as the unofficial but undisputed economic and artistic capital of the world. By the mid-1970s, the city had experienced a profound reversal, and both its economy and its reputation were at a historic nadir. The architectural history of the period offered an exceptionally abundant and varied mix of building styles and types, from the faltering traditionalism of the 1940s through the heyday of International Style modernism in the 1950s and 1960s to the incipient postmodernism of the 1970s.

Organized geographically, New York 1960 provides an encyclopedic survey of the city's postwar architecture as well as relating a coherent story about each of its diverse neighborhoods. Primary sources are emphasized, including the commentaries of the preeminent architecture critics of the day; the text is illustrated exclusively with a rich collection of period photographs.