Inventing the skyline : the architecture of Cass Gilbert /

By:

Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934

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Material type: Text

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

0231118724
0231118732

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Summary: Architect of the Broadway Chambers Building, the US Custom House, the Minnesota State Capitol, the St. Louis Art Museum, and large-scale projects like the city plan for New Haven, Connecticut, Cass Gilbert is most famous for his skyscrapers--"symbols of our national genius and unrestraint"--monuments of the Beaux Arts "City Beautiful" aesthetic he embraced throughout his career. Containing essays by major Gilbert scholars, Inventing the Skyline presents fascinating details about the buildings: the color scheme of the main entrance of the Minnesota State Capitol, made to resemble the Byzantine tomb of Galla Placidia in Ravenna; the controversy that erupted over the use of female nudes on the relief of the Essex County Courthouse; and the ill-fated plans for the George Washington Bridge as a Beaux Arts monument with elaborate plazas, fountains, and sculptures.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Reference	Carleton University, AVRC	Richardson Collection - Non CIrculating - Call No. Accompanied by Red Dot	Open-stacks	NA737.G5 A4 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan		16055001134

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the New-York Historical Society, summer-fall 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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