Pietro Belluschi: Modern American Architect

Langue : anglais

Edité par MIT Press (MA) August 1999, 1999

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Pietro Belluschi (1899-1994) was the last of a generation of architectsthat included Marcel Breuer, Jose Luis Sert, and Louis I. Kahn, European immigrantswho had a major impact on American architecture. This first extensively illustratedstudy of his life and work brings to light a remarkably accomplished architect, recipient of the AIA Gold Medal and designer (by his own estimate) of well over1,000 buildings and projects. It reveals the enormous power that Belluschi wieldedas an arbiter of taste and decision maker in the 1950s and 1960s; his role inshaping the policy of the State Department in its overseas building program; and hisrole in securing major commissions for favored architects such as I. M. Pei. Equallyimportant is Meredith Clausen's discussion of Belluschi's role in the development ofregionalism in the Pacific Northwest, and its impact on the definition of modernismas it was emerging in the United States.Clausen examines all aspects of Belluschi'slong and productive career from his classical origins in Rome and the arts andcrafts influences in the Pacific Northwest that helped shape his aesthetic, to therestrained, modernist houses and churches that comprised his early work; individualbuildings like the startlingly modern Portland Art Museum of 1931 and the aluminum-clad Equitable (now Commonwealth) Building of 1948 that were at the cutting edge ofprogressive architecture; and the stores, shopping centers, and flush-surfaced glassand metal corporate towers that were the bread and butter of Belluschi's practice.Inthis measured account, Clausen describes the collaboration with Walter Gropius onthe massive Pan Am Building that, dogged by unpopular public sentiment, marked adownturn in Belluschi's career and the fortunes of modernism in general. By aligninghimself with large-scale institutions and private developers, Clausen observes, Belluschi alienated both avant-garde theorists and aesthetic trend setters and wasincreasingly at odds with the temper of the times, a fall from grace that culminatedin a well- publicized debate with Philip Johnson in the late 1970s over MichaelGraves's design for the Public Services Building in Portland, Oregon. Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks.…

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Titre
Pietro Belluschi: Modern American Architect
Auteur
Meredith L Clausen,
Éditeur
MIT Press (MA) August 1999
Année de publication
1999
État de l'article
Used - Very Good
Reliure
Trade Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0262531674
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780262531672
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Architecture - Architects, A-Z

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