On architecture : collected reflections on a century of change /
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| Author / Creator: | Huxtable, Ada Louise. |
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
| Imprint: | New York : Walker, 2008. |
| Description: | xviii, 478 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7539204 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Preface: The Joy of Architecture
- Part I. The Way We Were
- The Sixties: Modernism: USA
- World of the Absurd
- The Seventies: Forward, Backward, Sideways
- The Eighties: Breaking the Rules
- The Nineties: The New Architecture
- Part II. The Way We Built
- Twentieth-century Icons and Images
- Pan Am: The Big, the Expedient, and the Deathlessly Ordinary
- CBS: Eero Saarinen's Somber Skyscraper
- The Whitney's Bold New Look
- General Motors: A Mixed Marble Bag
- Boston's New City Hall
- It's So Peaceful in the Country
- The Building You Love to Hate
- The Meier Superstyle
- Order in the Courthouse
- Libraries in London and Paris
- Washington
- The New House Office Building
- From a Candy Box, a Tardy and Unpleasant Surprise
- A Look at the Kennedy Center
- Full Speed Backward
- A Bureaucratic Behemoth of a Library
- Museums
- The Sixties: What Should a Museum Be?
- Misalliance on the Mall
- The Eighties: Museums: Lessons from the Sixties
- The Nineties: The Guggenheim Bilbao: Art and Architecture as One
- Hot Museums in a Cold Climate
- Museums: Making It New
- Skyscrapers
- The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered
- Skyscraper Art Rides High
- The Myth of the Invulnerable Skyscraper
- Tall, Taller, Tallest
- Part III. Modernism and Its Masters
- Le Corbusier
- Bold Harvard Structure
- Architect of Today's World
- The Changing "Truth" of Le Corbusier
- Flexible Enough to Endure
- Mies van der Rohe
- The Soaring Towers That Gave Form to an Age
- The Making of a Master
- Alvar Aalto
- Alvar Aalto, Finnish Master
- A Library in Oregon
- Where They Do It Right
- An Enduring Legacy
- Louis Kahn
- Exeter Library: Paean to Books
- The Meaning of a Wall
- Seeking the Father, Finding the Architect
- Walter Gropius
- The Future Grows Old
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Wright Mythology
- Fallingwater: A Marriage of Nature and Art
- Part IV. Modernism and Its Discontents
- Mutations in the Modern Movement
- Rebuilding Architecture
- Reinventing Architecture
- Moving On
- Don't Call It Kookie
- The Case for Chaos
- Plastic Flowers Are Almost All Right
- The Venturi Antistyle
- Michael Graves's Personal Language
- The Austere World of Rossi
- John Hejduk-a Mystic and Poet
- Philip Johnson: Clever Tricks or True Art?
- The Man Who Loved Architecture
- Reflections on the Glass House
- Remembering Architecture's Dream Team
- Going Dutch
- Architecture: The Bold and the Beautiful-a Tale of Two Franks
- French Elegance Hits Midtown Manhattan
- To Much of a Good Thing?
- Rewriting History
- Mackintosh: A Genius to Be Reckoned With
- Peacock Feathers and Pink Plastic
- Beaux Arts-the Latest Avant-Garde
- Rediscovering Chicago Architecture
- Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens and the Cult of the Recent Past
- Discovering Ivan Leonidov
- The First Hundred Years: McKim, Mead & White
- Holabird and Root
- Resurrecting a Prophetic Nineteenth-century Practitioner
- Born-Again Modernism
- Modernism, in Perspective
- The Man Who Remade New York
- Part V. New York
- Adding Up the Score
- King of Checkerboards
- Manhattan's Landmark Buildings Today
- Huntington Hartford's Palatial Midtown Museum
- Columbus Circle: A Project Without a Plan
- The Best Way to Preserve 2 Columbus Circle
- MoMA's Big, New, Elegantly Understated Home
- The Morgan Library's Cool New Building
- The World Trade Center
- Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Buildings?
- "The New York Process"-the World Trade Center Site
- The Art of the Deal: Six Dreadful Proposals Devoid of Artistry
- Rebuilding Lower Manhattan
- The Next Great City Center?
- Death of the Dream
- The Disaster That Has Followed the Tragedy
- Part VI. Failures and Follies
- A Vision of Rome Dies
- How We Lost Lower Manhattan
- Where Did We Go Wrong?
- A Conference on Cities
- The Great American Flag Scheme
- The Way It Never Was
- The Hudson Yards: Plenty of Glitz, Little Vision
- Part VII. Taste and Style
- The Melancholy Fate of Danish Modern
- Conquering Clutter
- Battling the Bulge
- Send in the Clowns
- When the Outrageous Became Mainstream
- Part VIII. Strictly Personal
- Growing Up in a Beaux Arts World
- Personal Landmarks Along the Highway
- No Place Like Home
- Index
