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Heroic Mark Pasnik Signed 2015 HC Kubo Concrete Architecture and the New Boston
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- Signed By
- Mark Pasnik
- Signed
- Yes
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- English
- Intended Audience
- Young Adults, Adults
- Inscribed
- Yes
- Edition
- First Edition
- Vintage
- No
- Personalize
- No
- Era
- 2010s
- Personalized
- Yes
- Features
- Illustrated, signed by author, inscription
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9781580934244
- Book Title
- Heroic : Concrete Architecture and the New Boston
- Item Length
- 10.2in
- Publisher
- Monacelli Press, Incorporated
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Architecture
- Topic
- Construction / General, History / Contemporary (1945-), Regional, Methods & Materials
- Item Width
- 7.1in
- Item Weight
- 43.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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Product Information
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 Llu s 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." Today, when concrete buildings across the nation are in danger of insensitive renovation or demolition, Heroic presents the concrete structures that defined Boston during this remarkable period--from the well-known (Boston City Hall, New England Aquarium, and cornerstones of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University) to the already lost (Mary Otis Stevens and Thomas F. McNulty's concrete Lincoln House and Studio; Sert, Jackson & Associates' Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School)--with hundreds of images; essays by architectural historians Joan Ockman, Lizabeth Cohen, Keith N. Morgan, and Douglass Shand-Tucci; and interviews with a number of the architects themselves. The product of 8 years of research and advocacy, Heroic surveys the intentions and aspirations of this period and considers anew its legacies--both troubled and inspired.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Monacelli Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1580934242
ISBN-13
9781580934244
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208704910
Product Key Features
Book Title
Heroic : Concrete Architecture and the New Boston
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Construction / General, History / Contemporary (1945-), Regional, Methods & Materials
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Architecture
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
10.2in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
7.1in
Item Weight
43.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Na735.B7
Reviews
"During the 1960s and '70s, tony Boston became the proving ground for a new generation of architects creating massive civic and university buildings of austere concrete. Heroic captures the strange beauty of Paul Rudolph's imaginative Government Service Center; Sert, Jackson & Associates' Peabody Terrace apartments; and other controversial structures." -- Elle Decor
Copyright Date
2015
Dewey Decimal
720.9744/61/0904
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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