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Inventing the skyline : the architecture of Cass Gilbert
- Title
- Inventing the skyline : the architecture of Cass Gilbert / edited by Margaret Heilbrun ; with an introduction by Hugh Hardy.
- Author
- Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934.
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2000.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xxxvii, 306 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 27 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the New-York Historical Society, summer-fall 2000.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Betsy Gotbaum -- Preface / Margaret Heilbrun -- Acknowledgements -- Biographical time line -- Introduction / Hugh Hardy -- ch. 1. Cass Gilbert in practice, 1882-1934 / Sharon Irish -- ch. 2. From sketch to architecture : drawings in the Cass Gilbert office / Mary Beth Betts -- ch. 3. Cass Gilbert : twelve projects [Minnesota State Capitol], [Broadway Chambers Building], [Essex County Courthouse], [U.S. Custom House], [West Street Building], [The F.W. Woolworth Company Building], [Oberlin College], [U.S. Army supply base], [Detroit Public Library], [New York Life Insurance Company Building], [George Washington Bridge], [New York County Lawyers' Association Building] / Mary Beth Betts -- ch. 4. The architect as planner : Cass Gilbert's responses to historic open space / Barbara S. Christen -- ch. 6. Cass Gilbert's skyscrapers in New York : the twentieth-century city and the urban picturesque / Gail Fenske.
- Call Number
- 3-MQZ (Gilbert) 01-1441
- ISBN
- 0231118724 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- 0231118732 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 99086736
- OCLC
- 43227473
- Author
- Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934.
- Title
- Inventing the skyline : the architecture of Cass Gilbert / edited by Margaret Heilbrun ; with an introduction by Hugh Hardy.
- Imprint
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2000.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Heilbrun, Margaret.New-York Historical Society.
- Research Call Number
- 3-MQZ (Gilbert) 01-1441