Heroic concrete architecture and the new Boston
Words.<br>Becoming heroic / Mark Pasnik, Michael Kubo, and Chris Grimley ; The school of brutalism : from Great Britain to Boston (and beyond) / Joan Ockman ; Building government center : the Boston redevelopment authority, 1960-67 / Lizabeth Cohen ; City of ideas : structure and scale in the...
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New York, New York
Monacelli Press
2015
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Geschichte 1900-2000
> Geschichte 1960-1970
> Architecture / Massachusetts / Boston / History
> Concrete construction / Massachusetts / Boston / History / 20th century
> Brutalism (Architecture) / Massachusetts / Boston
> Architektur
> Geschichte
> Brutalismus
> Boston (Mass.) / Buildings, structures, etc
> Boston, Mass.
> Aufsatzsammlung
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Words.<br>Becoming heroic / Mark Pasnik, Michael Kubo, and Chris Grimley ; The school of brutalism : from Great Britain to Boston (and beyond) / Joan Ockman ; Building government center : the Boston redevelopment authority, 1960-67 / Lizabeth Cohen ; City of ideas : structure and scale in the Boston general plan / Keith N. Morgan ; Boston granite, heroic concrete : a speaking aristocracy in the face of a listening democracy / Douglass Shand-Tucci<br><br>Voices.<br>Experiential thinking / Peter Chermayeff ; A shared ethos / Henry N. Cobb ; Integral architecture / Araldo Cossutta ; Concrete is patient / N. Michael McKinnell ; The burden of concrete / Tician Papachristou ; Modernism in search of authenticity / Frederick A. "Tad" Stahl ; The anti-hero / Mary Otis Stevens Often problematically labeled as "Brutalist" architecture, the concrete buildings that transformed Boston during 1960s and 1970s were conceived with progressive-minded intentions by some of the world's most influential designers, including Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, I. M. Pei, Henry Cobb, Araldo Cossutta, Gerhard Kallmann and Michael McKinnell, Paul Rudolph, Josep Lluís Sert, and The Architects Collaborative. As a worldwide phenomenon, building with concrete represents one of the major architectural movements of the postwar years, but in Boston it was deployed in more numerous and diverse civic, cultural, and academic projects than in any other major U.S. city. After decades of stagnation and corrupt leadership, public investment in Boston in the 1960s catalyzed enormous growth, resulting in a generation of bold buildings that shared a vocabulary of concrete modernism. The period from the 1960 arrival of Edward J. Logue as the powerful and often controversial director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority to the reopening of Quincy Market in 1976 saw Boston as an urban laboratory for the exploration of concrete's structural and sculptural qualities. What emerged was a vision for the city's widespread revitalization often referred to as the "New Boston." |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references |
| Beschreibung: | 335 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 26 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781580934244 978-1-58093-424-4 |