Book ID: CBB328574603

Skyscraper Gothic: Medieval Style and Modernist Buildings (2017)

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Murphy, Kevin D. (Editor)
Lisa Reilly (Editor)


University of Virginia Press


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 228 pp.
Language: English

Of all building types, the skyscraper strikes observers as the most modern, in terms not only of height but also of boldness, scale, ingenuity, and daring. As a phenomenon born in late nineteenth-century America, it quickly became emblematic of New York, Chicago, and other major cities. Previous studies of these structures have tended to foreground examples of more evincing modernist approaches, while those with styles reminiscent of the great Gothic cathedrals of Europe were initially disparaged as being antimodernist or were simply unacknowledged. Skyscraper Gothic brings together a group of renowned scholars to address the medievalist skyscraper--from flying buttresses to dizzying spires; from the Chicago Tribune Tower to the Woolworth Building in Manhattan. Drawing on archival evidence and period texts to uncover the ways in which patrons and architects came to understand the Gothic as a historic style, the authors explore what the appearance of Gothic forms on radically new buildings meant urbanistically, architecturally, and socially, not only for those who were involved in the actual conceptualization and execution of the projects but also for the critics and the general public who saw the buildings take shape. (Publisher's description)

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Authors & Contributors
Dümpelmann, Sonja
Andraschke, Udo
Cressman, Darryl
Friss, Evan
Ferri, Gianluca
Edward M. Hatch
Concepts
Architecture
Urban history
Buildings
Science and society
Skyscrapers
Urban planning
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
18th century
Places
United States
Chicago (Illinois, U.S.)
New York City (New York, U.S.)
Italy
Berlin (Germany)
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Institutions
American Museum of Natural History
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