The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered - Softcover
The skyscraper is the building type that dominates our cities, absorbs vast amounts of capital in design, construction and maintenance, and houses large numbers of people in offices and apartments. Ada Louise Huxtable—America's most acclaimed architecture critic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur Prize Fellow—offers here an energetic defense of cities and a brilliant consideration of the skyscraper as art, as business, as the product of politics and speculation.
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Ada Louise Huxtable was architecture critic at the New York Times from 1963 to 1982. Among the books she has written are Classical New York and Pier Luigi Nervi.
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"A fine survey of skyscraper history [and] a timely call for some hard thinking about the kind of monuments our civilization will leave behind. . . . Huxtable's scrappy spirit is in top form." -- Newsday
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- PublisherUniversity of California Press
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0520080289
- ISBN 13 9780520080287
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages128
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