New York 1900: Metropolitan Architecture and Urbanism 1890-1915
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (897 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0847805115 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 502 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Historical photographs, plans, and elevations document the cultural and artistic flowering in New York.
Indispensable. The twentieth-century items by which New York City is usually synechdocally identified, the Empire State Building, the World Trade Center and what have you, are arguably just later iconic ornaments set atop the massive base formed during the earlier period covered in this book. The character New York has today was really in good part formed by the turn of the last century, by the structures . Beautifully documents buildings of the turn-of-the-century saskatoonguy This is an excellent treatment of New York architecture, 1890-1915, divided into chapters by building type. It's substantially thinner than Robert Stern's other books in this series (New York 1880, New York 1930, New York 1960), but there's enough meat here that the reader feels the topic has been fully covered. The book has a particularly attractive page format, with numerous photos that be. The original and the still the best! A Customer This is a groundbreaking work that unearthed the contemporaneous understanding of events that, because of the advent of modernism, was never recorded in books. It has paved the way for more specialized studies, but its breadth of learning and expertise has never been surpassed.