Inventing the skyline : the architecture of Cass Gilbert /

Inventing the skyline : the architecture of Cass Gilbert /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934.
Imprint:	New York : Columbia University Press, c2000.
Description:	xxxvii, 306 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Gilbert, Cass, -- 1859-1934 -- Exhibitions. Gilbert, Cass, -- 1859-1934. New-York Historical Society -- Exhibitions. New-York Historical Society. Eclecticism in architecture -- United States -- Exhibitions. Architectural drawing -- Private collections -- New York (State) -- New York -- Exhibitions. Architectural drawing -- New York (State) -- New York -- Exhibitions. Architectural drawing. Architectural drawing -- Private collections. Eclecticism in architecture. New York (State) -- New York. United States. Exhibition catalogs.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4337434

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Other authors / contributors:	Heilbrun, Margaret. New-York Historical Society.
ISBN:	0231118724 (cloth : acid-free paper) 0231118732 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Notes:	Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the New-York Historical Society, summer-fall 2000. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Foreword
Preface
Biographical Time Line
Introduction
1. Cass Gilbert in Practice, 1882-1934
2. From Sketch to Architecture: Drawings in the Cass Gilbert Office
3. Cass Gilbert: Twelve Projects
4. The Architect as Planner: Cass Gilbert's Responses to Historic Open Space
5. Cass Gilbert's Skyscrapers in New York: The Twentieth-Century City and the Urban Picturesque
Contributors