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Synopsis
Scrutinizes the skyscraper as art, as business, and as the product of politics and speculation, surveying its history and its probable future developments
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About the Author
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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- PublisherPantheon
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0394741544
- ISBN 13 9780394741543
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages128
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