Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Window Sills and Copings of ALCOA Aluminum
Author: Alcoa Aluminum in Architecture
Author: Aluminum Company of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air conditioning
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Alcoa Structural Handbook
Author: Aluminum Company of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aluminum alloys
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Alcoa Aluminum in Architecture
Author: Aluminum Company of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aluminum alloys
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Architectural Forum
Author: Structural Aluminum Handbook
Author: Aluminum Company of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aluminum alloys
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Research Bulletin on Building Materials and Appliances
Author: Producers' Council, IncPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Building materials
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
Book Description
Includes various directories: Directory of the Producers' Council; Building products directory; Product/maintenance literature directory; etc., etc.
Architectural Record
Author: 194X
Author: Andrew Michael ShankenPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816653658
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
During the Second World War, American architecture was in a state of crisis. The rationing of building materials and restrictions on nonmilitary construction continued the privations that the profession had endured during the Great Depression. At the same time, the dramatic events of the 1930s and 1940s led many architects to believe that their profession--and society itself--would undergo a profound shift once the war ended, with private commissions giving way to centrally planned projects. The magazine Architectural Forum coined the term "194X" to encapsulate this wartime vision of postwar architecture and urbanism. In a major study of American architecture during World War II, Andrew M. Shanken focuses on the culture of anticipation that arose in this period, as out-of-work architects turned their energies from the built to the unbuilt, redefining themselves as planners and creating original designs to excite the public about postwar architecture. Shanken recasts the wartime era as a crucible for the intermingling of modernist architecture and consumer culture. Challenging the pervasive idea that corporate capitalism corrupted the idealism of modernist architecture in the postwar era, 194X shows instead that architecture's wartime partnership with corporate American was founded on shared anxieties and ideals. Business and architecture were brought together in innovative ways, as shown by Shanken's persuasive reading of magazine advertisements for Revere Copper and Brass, U.S. Gypsum, General Electric, and other companies that prominently featured the work of leading progressive architects, including Louis I. Kahn, Eero Saarinen, and Walter Gropius. Although the unexpected prosperity of the postwar era made the architecture of 194X obsolete before it could be built and led to its exclusion from the story of twentieth-century American architecture, Shanken makes clear that its anticipatory rhetoric and designs played a crucial role in the widespread acceptance
Pencil Points
Author: Eugene ClutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architectural drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 950
Book Description