Rise of the New York skyscraper, 1865-1913 / Sarah Bradford Landau & Carl W. Condit.
Material type: TextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1996Description: xvi, 478 pages : illustrations ; 29 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0300064446
- 9780300064445
- Rise of the New York skyscraper, eighteen sixty five-nineteen thirteen
- Rise of the New York skyscraper, 1865 to 1913
- 720.483097471
- NA6232. L36 1996
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 720.483097471 LAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A250209B |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Ch. 1. The Urban Context and the Office Building, 1850-70 -- Ch. 2. Technological Preparations -- Ch. 3. Toward the Skyscraper: Architectural and Technical Achievement in New York Before 1870 -- Ch. 4. The "First Skyscrapers": Innovation in the 1870s -- Ch. 5. The Future Revealed: Technical Developments and Formal Solutions in the 1880s -- Ch. 6. State of the Skyscraper Art, 1889 to the Mid-1890s -- Ch. 7. Monuments to Commercial Power and Corporate Prestige, 1889-95 -- Ch. 8. The Syndicate-Built Skyscraper, Technical Advances, Continuing Debate, 1895-1900 -- Ch. 9. Skyscrapers and the Urban Scene at the Turn of the Century -- Ch. 10. The Skyscraper Comes of Age, 1900-1910 -- Ch. 11. Culminating Works and Envoys of the Future -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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