Impossible heights : skyscrapers, flight, and the master builder / / Adnan Morshed

• Autore: Morshed Adnan
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, Minnesota ; ; London, England : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Disciplina: 720.1/08
• Soggetto topico: Architecture and society - United States - History - 20th century; Technological innovations - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century; Architecture, Modern - 20th century - Philosophy; Aeronautics and civilization
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Aesthetics of Ascension; 1. Hugh Ferriss and the "Harmonious Development of Man"; 2. Ascension as Autobiography: Buckminster Fuller and His "Land to Sky, Outward Progression"; 3. The Master Builder as Superman: Norman Bel Geddes's Futurama; Epilogue: The God's-Eye Vision; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The advent of the airplane and skyscraper in 1920's and '30's America offered the population an entirely new way to look at the world: from above. The captivating image of an airplane flying over the rising metropolis led many Americans to believe a new civilization had dawned. In Impossible Heights, Adnan Morshed examines the aesthetics that emerged from this valorization of heights and their impact on the built environment.The lofty vantage point from the sky ushered in a modernist impulse to cleanse crowded twentieth-century cities in anticipation of an ideal world of tomorrow.
• Titolo autorizzato: Impossible heights
• ISBN: 1-4529-4295-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459683403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II