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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.
Review
"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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The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered: The Search for a Skyscraper Style
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The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered : The Search for a Skyscraper Style
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1986
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Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered: The Search for a Skyscraper Style
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. First Paperback edition. First printing. Huxtable, former architecture critic of the NYT, "scrutinizes the skyscraper as art, as business, and as the product of politics and speculation, surveying its history and its probable future developments." [from publisher] Includes numerous black & white illustrations and bibliography. A clean, unmarked copy with slight shelfwear. Seller Inventory # 9915
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Pantheon September 1986, 1986
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Ada Louise Huxtable. 128 pages, profusely. illustrated, quarto (4to), soft cover. Good condition clean solid copy of the book. Inventory #14485-1. Seller Inventory # 000597
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