Works in Progress ** 1ST EDITION **

Alvin Rosenbaum

ISBN 10: 0876540698 / ISBN 13: 9780876540695

Published by Pomegranate, 1994

About this Item

FIRST EDITION, later printing of this hardcover book. Silver colored glossy boards with white lettering. Boards are rigid and warp-free. Spine is flat and square. Corners are crisp. No previous owner marks (no names, no underlining, no bookplates, etc). No remainder marks. Pages are clean, crisp and bright.

DUST JACKET complete, NOT clipped. Jacket is almost perfect, but shows miniscule shelf wear, slight rubbing at the edges, corners and a tear in the front and back of dust jacket, each less than 1/2" long. Will be protected with an archival book jacket cover.

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Includes:

The Mechanical Age
? U.S. Treasury Building
? Washington Monument
? Central Park
? U.S. Capitol Dome
? Prospect Park
? Brooklyn Bridge
? Chicago Fire
? Philadelphia City Hall
? Statue of Liberty
? Pension Building
? Sagrada Familia
? Library of Congress
? Eiffel Tower
? Washington Square Arch
? Biltmore Estate
? Trans?Siberian Railroad
? Cathedral of St. John the Divine

The City Beautiful
? World?s Columbian Exposition
? General Noble Redwood Tree House
? Barn Raising
? Boston Subway
? New York Public Library
? Flatiron Building
? Grand Central Terminal
? Pennsylvania Station
? Times Tower
? Coney Island
? San Francisco Earthquake
? Panama Canal
? Titanic
? Crooked River Bridge
? Lincoln Memorial
? Soddie
? Set of Intolerance
? Electric Trolley Cars
? Key West Highway
? Paramount Pictures Gate
? Route 66
? George Washington Bridge
? Mount Rushmore
? Louisville Palace Theater

Building Big
? Goodyear Airdock
? Chrysler Building
? Empire State Building
? Radio City Music Hall
? U.S. Botanic Garden
? Hoover Dam
? Arthurdale
? Golden Gate Bridge
? Grand Coulee Dam
? Greenbelt
? Rockefeller Center Ice Rink
? Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus
? Fallingwater
? Johnson Wax Administration Building
? Sharecropper?s Cabin
? Trylon and Perisphere
? Set of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
? Jefferson Memorial
? Adobe Restoration
? Nazi Party Headquarters
? Manzanar

The Postwar Era
? Levittown
? White House Renovation
? Fontainebleau Hotel
? Disneyland
? Sydney Opera House
? TWA Terminal
? Dulles International Airport
? U.S. Air Force Academy Chapel
? Gateway Arch
? Marina City
? Astrodome
? John Hancock Center
? U.S. Pavilion, Expo 67
? Sears Tower
? Vietnam Veterans Memorial
? Big Ben Restoration
? Pyramide du Louvre
? Channel Tunnel
? Oriole Park at Camden Yards
? U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
? Endeavour
? Statue of Freedom Restoration.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1788212199171

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Works in Progress ** 1ST EDITION **
• Publisher: Pomegranate
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0876540698
• ISBN 13: 9780876540695
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 3rd Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Dimensions: 26.04W x 31.12H x 2.54D centimeters 26.04 centimeters width by 31.12 centimeters height by 2.54 centimeters depth
• Weight: 1542 grams

About this title

Synopsis

A photographic chronicle of landmark buildings and projects under construction from the 1860s onward, from the Washington Monument to the Channel Tunnel. Rosenbaum, head of the Historic American Engineering Record, draws on news accounts, architects' records, and other archival sources to describe the evolution of architectural and construction techniques. He discusses some 85 structures, such as skyscrapers, public monuments, bridges, theaters, and stadiums, tracing the growth of landmark photography and historic preservation and providing key facts about each site. Unfortunately, most entries are illustrated by only one (albeit large) b&w photo. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Reviews

At any construction site, notice the passersby pausing to watch the activity, trying to imagine the finished building's appearance. This handsome album is a repository for that human impulse, with artfully composed black-and-white photos of 85 structures during construction, bordered with one column of text. Most but not all are world renowned and stand in America: the government buildings and monuments that stud Washington, D.C.; the famed commercial towers of New York and Chicago; conduits of transportation such as the Panama Canal, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Boston subway, or Route 66; individual dwellings from Wright's Fallingwater to a sharecropper's cabin; and a category of the plainly strange (but every compiler deserves to indulge a vice), such as the set of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington or Disneyland. Dramatic, aesthetic views lend this an eye-catching place in library displays. Gilbert Taylor