Résumé
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 : An Orderly Enigma
Chapter 2 : China, MIT, and Harvard (1917-48) : The Shaping
of an Architect
Chapter 3 : The Zeckendorf Days (1948-60) : Learning to
Think Big
Chapter 4 : The National Center for Atmospheric Research
(1961-67) : The Jouney from Planning to Form
Chapter 5 : The John F. Kennedy Library (1964-79) : Gateway
to Fame
Chapter 6 : The Dallas Municipal Administration Center
(1966-77) : Symbol for a City
Chapter 7 : The John Handock Tower (1966-1976) : A Near
Fatal Beauty
Chapter 8 : The East Building of the National Gallery
(1968-78) : The Power of Art, Taste, and Money
Chapter 9 : The Fragrant Hill Hotel (1979-82) : You Can't
Quite Go Home Again
Chapter 10 : The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
(1979-86) : The Wages of Politics and Technology
Chapter 11 : Le Grand Louvre (1983-89) : The Battle of the
Pyramid
Chapter 12 : 1989 : "The Year of Pei"
Notes
Bibliography
Catalogue of Works
Index
Acknowledgments
Photograph Credits
L'auteur - Carter Wiseman
A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale College, Carter Wiseman received a masters degree in art history from, Columbia University and was a Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. He bas been a newsman with the Associated Press, an associate editor at Newsweek, and, since 1980, the architecture critic for New York magazine. Wiseman bas taught at the Columbia School of Journalism, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale. He has contributed to a number of books on architecture and urban affairs; among his numerous writing awards is an Institute Honor from the American Institute of Architects. Wiseman lives in Westport, Connecticut, with his wife and their two children and divides his working time between New York and New Haven, where he edits the Yale Alumni Magazine.
Caractéristiques techniques
| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | Abrams |
| Auteur(s) | Carter Wiseman |
| Parution | 15/10/1990 |
| Nb. de pages | 320 |
| Format | 23,5 x 29 |
| Couverture | Broché |
| Poids | 1703g |
| Intérieur | Quadri |
| EAN13 | 9780810937093 |
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