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  1. Impossible heights
    skyscrapers, flight, and the master builder
    Author: Morshed, Adnan
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis ; Oxford University Press, Oxford

    'Impossible Heights' examines a distinct American cultural consciousness that came into focus during the interwar years, with the excitement about aeroplanes and skyscrapers, as well as their anticipated roles in the creation of an ideal 'world of... more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Kassel, Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel
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    'Impossible Heights' examines a distinct American cultural consciousness that came into focus during the interwar years, with the excitement about aeroplanes and skyscrapers, as well as their anticipated roles in the creation of an ideal 'world of tomorrow'. The book explores how this 'aesthetics of ascension' contributed to a broader transformation of the architect as a master builder, whose idealistic perspective from above ushered in a modernist impulse to ameliorate the spatial and social problems of an allegedly chaotic world.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781452947549
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    RVK Categories: LO 96610 ; ZH 5400
    Subjects: Architekturtheorie; Ästhetik; Hochhaus; Luftfahrt; Massenkultur; Architecture and society; Technological innovations; Architecture, Modern; Aeronautics and civilization
    Other subjects: Ferriss, Hugh (1889-1962); Fuller, Richard Buckminster (1895-1983); Geddes, Norman Bel (1893-1958)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 291 pages), Illustrations (black and white, and colour)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  2. Impossible heights
    skyscrapers, flight, and the master builder
    Author: Morshed, Adnan
    Published: 2015; © 2015
    Publisher:  University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota ; London, England

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    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek

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    Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Bibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780816673193; 9781452942957
    Subjects: Geschichte; Gesellschaft; Philosophie; Architecture and society; Technological innovations; Architecture, Modern; Aeronautics and civilization; Luftfahrt; Ästhetik; Massenkultur; Kunst; Hochhaus; Architekturtheorie; Architektur
    Other subjects: Ferriss, Hugh (1889-1962); Geddes, Norman Bel (1893-1958); Fuller, Richard Buckminster (1895-1983)
    Scope: 1 online resource (313 pages)
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    Includes index

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  3. Impossible heights
    skyscrapers, flight, and the master builder
    Author: Morshed, Adnan
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Univ. of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minn. [u.a.]

    " The advent of the airplane and skyscraper in 1920s and '30s America offered the population an entirely new way to look at the world: from above. The captivating image of an airplane flying over the rising metropolis led many Americans to believe a... more

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    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    " The advent of the airplane and skyscraper in 1920s and '30s America offered the population an entirely new way to look at the world: from above. The captivating image of an airplane flying over the rising metropolis led many Americans to believe a new civilization had dawned. In Impossible Heights, Adnan Morshed examines the aesthetics that emerged from this valorization of heights and their impact on the built environment. The lofty vantage point from the sky ushered in a modernist impulse to cleanse crowded twentieth-century cities in anticipation of an ideal world of tomorrow. Inspired by great new heights, American architects became central to this endeavor and were regarded as heroic aviators. Combining close readings of a broad range of archival sources, Morshed offers new interpretations of works such as Hugh Ferriss's Metropolis drawings, Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion houses, and Norman Bel Geddes's Futurama exhibit at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Transformed by the populist imagination into "master builders," these designers helped produce a new form of visuality: the aesthetics of ascension. By demonstrating how aerial movement and height intersect with popular "superman" discourses of the time, Morshed reveals the relationship between architecture, art, science, and interwar pop culture. Featuring a marvelous array of never before published illustrations, this richly textured study of utopian imaginings illustrates America's propulsion into a new cultural consciousness. "..

     
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  4. Impossible heights
    skyscrapers, flight, and the master builder
    Author: Morshed, Adnan
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Univ. of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minn. [u.a.]

    " The advent of the airplane and skyscraper in 1920s and '30s America offered the population an entirely new way to look at the world: from above. The captivating image of an airplane flying over the rising metropolis led many Americans to believe a... more

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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

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    Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Bibliothek
    Inter-library loan:
    No loan of volumes, only paper copies will be sent

     

    " The advent of the airplane and skyscraper in 1920s and '30s America offered the population an entirely new way to look at the world: from above. The captivating image of an airplane flying over the rising metropolis led many Americans to believe a new civilization had dawned. In Impossible Heights, Adnan Morshed examines the aesthetics that emerged from this valorization of heights and their impact on the built environment. The lofty vantage point from the sky ushered in a modernist impulse to cleanse crowded twentieth-century cities in anticipation of an ideal world of tomorrow. Inspired by great new heights, American architects became central to this endeavor and were regarded as heroic aviators. Combining close readings of a broad range of archival sources, Morshed offers new interpretations of works such as Hugh Ferriss's Metropolis drawings, Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion houses, and Norman Bel Geddes's Futurama exhibit at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Transformed by the populist imagination into "master builders," these designers helped produce a new form of visuality: the aesthetics of ascension. By demonstrating how aerial movement and height intersect with popular "superman" discourses of the time, Morshed reveals the relationship between architecture, art, science, and interwar pop culture. Featuring a marvelous array of never before published illustrations, this richly textured study of utopian imaginings illustrates America's propulsion into a new cultural consciousness. "..

     
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  5. Impossible heights
    skyscrapers, flight, and the master builder
    Author: Morshed, Adnan
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Univ. of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis

    " The advent of the airplane and skyscraper in 1920s and '30s America offered the population an entirely new way to look at the world: from above. The captivating image of an airplane flying over the rising metropolis led many Americans to believe a... more

     

    " The advent of the airplane and skyscraper in 1920s and '30s America offered the population an entirely new way to look at the world: from above. The captivating image of an airplane flying over the rising metropolis led many Americans to believe a new civilization had dawned. In Impossible Heights, Adnan Morshed examines the aesthetics that emerged from this valorization of heights and their impact on the built environment. The lofty vantage point from the sky ushered in a modernist impulse to cleanse crowded twentieth-century cities in anticipation of an ideal world of tomorrow. Inspired by great new heights, American architects became central to this endeavor and were regarded as heroic aviators. Combining close readings of a broad range of archival sources, Morshed offers new interpretations of works such as Hugh Ferriss's Metropolis drawings, Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion houses, and Norman Bel Geddes's Futurama exhibit at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Transformed by the populist imagination into "master builders," these designers helped produce a new form of visuality: the aesthetics of ascension. By demonstrating how aerial movement and height intersect with popular "superman" discourses of the time, Morshed reveals the relationship between architecture, art, science, and interwar pop culture. Featuring a marvelous array of never before published illustrations, this richly textured study of utopian imaginings illustrates America's propulsion into a new cultural consciousness. "..

     
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