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Overview"Cass Gilbert's pioneering buildings injected vitality into skyscraper design, and his ""Gothic skyscraper,"" epitomized by the Woolworth Building, profoundly influenced architects during the first decades of the twentieth century. Now, as the New-York Historical Society mounts a major exhibit documenting his architectural career, the full breadth of Gilbert's achievements is visible in one lavishly illustrated volume. Architect of the Broadway Chambers Building, the US Custom House, the Minnesota State Capitol, the St. Louis Art Museum, and large-scale projects like the city plan for New Haven, Connecticut, Gilbert is most famous for his skyscrapers-""symbols of our national genius and unrestraint""-monuments of the Beaux Arts ""City Beautiful"" aesthetic he embraced throughout his career. Containing essays by major Gilbert scholars, Inventing the Skyline documents fascinating details about the buildings: the color scheme of the main entrance of the Minnesota State Capitol, made to resemble the Byzantine tomb of Galla Placidia in Ravenna; the controversy that erupted over the use of female nudes on the relief of the Essex County Courthouse; and the ill-fated plans for the George Washington Bridge as a Beaux Arts monument with elaborate plazas, fountains, and sculptures." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Margaret HeilbrunPublisher: Columbia University Press Imprint: Columbia University Press Dimensions: Width: 21.60cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.879kg ISBN: 9780231118736ISBN 10: 0231118732 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 14 July 2004 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Language: English Table of ContentsForeword, by Betsy Gotbaum Preface, by Margaret Heilbrun Biographical Time Line Introduction, by Hugh Hardy 1. Cass Gilbert in Practice, 1882-1934, by Sharon Irish 2. From Sketch to Architecture: Drawings in the Cass Gilbert Office, by Mary Beth Betts 3. Cass Gilbert: Twelve Projects, by Mary Beth Betts 4. The Architect as Planner: Cass Gilbert's Responses to Historic Open Space, by Barbara S. Christen 5. Cass Gilbert's Skyscrapers in New York: The Twentieth-Century City and the Urban Picturesque, by Gail Fenske ContributorsReviewsA visually rich book that reproduces numerous photographs, drawings, and plans from the Gilbert archive and presents them together with five scholarly essays by Gilbert authorities...Each of these essays draws richly on material from the archive, is well-documented, and provides real insights into Gilbert's work...for the sobriety of its essays, and even more for its lavish reproductions of plans and drawings, Inventing the Skyline is a necessary addition to any shelf of books on American architecture. -- Francis Morrone The New Criterion A visually rich book that reproduces numerous photographs, drawings, and plans from the Gilbert archive and presents them together with five scholarly essays by Gilbert authorities...Each of these essays draws richly on material from the archive, is well-documented, and provides real insights into Gilbert's work...for the sobriety of its essays, and even more for its lavish reproductions of plans and drawings, Inventing the Skyline is a necessary addition to any shelf of books on American architecture. -- Francis Morrone, The New Criterion A visually rich book that reproduces numerous photographs, drawings, and plans from the Gilbert archive and presents them together with five scholarly essays by Gilbert authorities....Each of these essays draws richly on material from the archive, is well-documented, and provides real insights into Gilbert's work....for the sobriety of its essays, and even more for its lavish reproductions of plans and drawings, Inventing the Skyline is a necessary addition to any shelf of books on American architecture. -- Francis Morrone * The New Criterion * Author InformationMargaret Heilbrun is the library director of the New York Historical Society. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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