Research Catalog

Title

Cass Gilbert, life and work : architect of the public domain / edited by Barbara S. Christen and Steven Flanders ; introduction by Robert A.M. Stern.

Author

Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934.

Publication

New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Christen, Barbara S.
• Flanders, Steven.

Description

320 p. : ill., plans, ports.; 27 cm.

Summary

"Nineteen essays, by a diverse group of historians and others who experience and study Gilbert's buildings in their professional lives, detail the intricate relationship between Gilbert's work and the longstanding tradition of public architecture in America"--Publisher summary.

Subjects

• Gilbert, Cass, (1859-1934) > Critique et interprétation
• Gilbert, Cass 1859-1934
• Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934 > Criticism and interpretation
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Woolworth Building (New York, N.Y.)
• United States
• Architektur
• Architekt
• Public architecture > United States

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface / by Steven Flanders -- Introduction / by Robert A.M. Stern -- pt. 1. A national practice built from the "Northwest" -- [ch.] 1. Architectural education and Minnesota career / Patricia Anne Murphy -- [ch.] 2. Launching a career : residential and ecclesiastical work from the St. Paul office / Thomas R. Blanck and Charles Locks -- [ch.] 3. The politics of public architecture / Geoffrey Blodgett -- [ch.] 4. The aesthetics of an eclectic architect / Mary Beth Betts -- pt. 2. A defining moment in american civic architecture -- [ch.] 5. The Minnesota state capitol : thinking internationally, designing locally / Thomas O'Sullivan -- [ch.] 6. The civilization of the West / Sally Webster -- [ch.] 7. High culture by the square foot / Bailey Van Hook -- [ch.] 8 The restoration and preservation of Minnesota's showplace / Carolyn Kompelien -- pt. 3. Monumentality in New York -- [ch.] 9. The image of the city : the Woolworth building and the creation of the New York skyline / Gail Fenske -- [ch.] 10. In the camera's eye : the Woolworth building and American avant-garde photography and film / Mary N. Woods -- [ch.] 11. "Great gray buildings" : the United States Army supply base / Sharon Irish -- pt. 4. Ideals in planning -- [ch.] 12. A "new" New England : proposals for New Haven and Waterbury, Connecticut / Barbara S. Christen -- [ch.] 13. The University of Texas : vision and ambition / Lawrence W. Speck -- [ch.] 14. Oberlin : the grand collaboration / Geoffrey Blodgett -- [ch.] 15. A British response to American classicism : Cass Gilbert and Charles Reilly / Joseph Sharples -- pt. 5. Gilbert and the public domain -- [ch.] 16. St. Louis : public architecture, civic ideals / Ingrid A. Steffensen -- [ch.] 17. "A difficult and perplexing matter" : the Louisiana Purchase Exposition / Susan Luftschein -- [ch.] 18. A user's viewpoint : Gilbert and his public / Jeffry H. Gallet -- [ch.] 19. Representing American justice : the United States Supreme Court / Paul Spencer Byard -- Postscript / by Dennis Jacobs -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.

ISBN

• 0393730654
• 9780393730654

LCCN

00069946

OCLC

• ocm45610042
• 45610042
• SCSB-9096738

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library