Adams Nicholas Gordon Bunshaft and SOM: Building Corporate Modernism 9780300227475

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Автор: Adams Nicholas
Название: Gordon Bunshaft and SOM: Building Corporate Modernism
ISBN: 9780300227475
Издательство: Wiley
Классификация:

Монографии о художниках, по искусству

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Общественные здания: гражданские, коммерческие, промышленные и др.

Биографии: общее жизнеописание

ISBN-10: 0300227477
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 296
Вес: 1.29 кг.
Дата издания: 22.10.2019
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 45 color + 159 b-w illus.
Размер: 236 x 302 x 21
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Building corporate modernism
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: A nuanced portrait of the 20th-century architect whose work defined the built aesthetic of corporate America

Gordon Bunshafts (1909-1990) landmark 1952 design for Lever House reshaped the Manhattan skyline and elevated the reputation of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), the firm where he would spend more than 40 years as a partner. Although this enigmatic architect left behind few records, his legacy endures in the corporate headquarters, museums, and libraries that were built in his distinctive modernist style. Bunshafts career was marked by shifts in material. Glass and steel structures of the 1950s, such as New Yorks Chase Manhattan Bank, gave way to revolutionary designs in concrete, such as the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University and the doughnut-shaped Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC. Bunshafts collaborations with artists, including Isamu Noguchi, Jean Dubuffet, and Henry Moore, were of paramount importance throughout his career.

Nicholas Adams explores the contested line between Bunshafts ambition for acclaim as a singular artistic genius and the collaborative structure of SOMs architectural partnership. Bunshaft received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1988 and remains the only SOM partner to have achieved this distinction. Adams counters Bunshafts maxim that the building speaks for itself with necessary critical context about this modernist moment at a time when the future of Bunshafts iconic works--including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo and the Union Carbide building in Manhattan--are very much in question.

Gordon Bunshaft and SOM: Building Corporate Modernism, Adams Nicholas