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MODERNISM AT MID-CENTURY
ARCHITECTURE OF THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY |
| By: |
Robert Bruegmann (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£91.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0226076938 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780226076935 |
| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 December, 1994 |
| Pages: |
200 |
| Description: |
One of the country's largest and most important post-war architectural projects, the US Air Force Academy opened in 1958. The contributors to this volume chronicle the history of the planning, design and construction of the Air Force Academy. |
| Synopsis: |
One of the country's largest and most important post-war architectural projects, the United States Air Force Academy opened in 1958. With its spectacular natural setting and stunning modernist design, the Academy was quickly hailed as a national landmark and attracts over a million visitors each year. The contributors to this volume (Jory Johnson, Robert Nauman, Sheri Olson, James Russell and Kristen Schaffer) and the editor, Robert Bruegmann, chronicle the complex history of the planning, design and construction of the Air Force Academy. As the most conspicuous commission of the American military at the height of the Cold War, the design of the Academy generated intense popular interest and was a lightning rod for conflicting values in post-war society. The design, by architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, has been hailed as the final triumph of the International Style and as a monument to military bureaucracy. |
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25 colour plates, 79 half-tones, 15 line drawings |
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US |
| Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press |
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Non-returnable |
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