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Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (Architectural History Foundation Book) (AMERICAN MONOGRAPH SERIES (ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION))

hardcover – December 5, 1988
by Krinsky, Carol Herselle
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ISBN-13: 9780262111300 ISBN-10: 0262111306
Publisher
MIT Press
Binding
hardcover
Published
December 5, 1988
Weight
4.5 lbs
Dimensions
27.30×3.20×27.30 cm

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Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (Architectural History Foundation Book) (AMERICAN MONOGRAPH SERIES (ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION)) by Krinsky, Carol Herselle. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780262111300.

A detailed study of the career and works of one of the masters of the modernist architectural movement in the 20th century. Krinsky (fine arts, NYU) carefully scrutinizes over forty years of Bunshafts work, projects as diverse as the 24-story Lever House in New York, which ushered in a new age of skyscrapers, and the Haj Terminal at King Abdul Ziz international Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, which boasts modular spaces covered by high-tech fabric "umbrellas". A part of the American Monograph Series published by the Architectural History Foundation. 320 illustrations, 17 in color. Beautifully produced. No bibliography. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.