Hugh Ferriss (1889–1962)
Auteur van The Metropolis of Tomorrow
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- 1889-07-12
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- 1962-01-29
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- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
New York, New York, USA - Opleiding
- Washington University in St. Louis (Architecture|1911)
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Buildings like crystals.
Walls of translucent glass.
Sheer glass blocks sheathing a steel grill.
No Gothic branch: no Acanthus leaf: no recollection of the plant world.
A mineral kingdom.
Gleaming stalagmites.
Forms as cold as ice.
Mathematics.
Night in the Science Zone.
This is both a horrible plan for a city and an excellent setting for a series of cyperpunk thriller novels. It's too short to be more than a glorified picture book, but recommended if you're a fan of historic architecture in New York, Chicago, St Louis, Detroit, etc, or of how modern urbanism inherits elements of the intellectual lineage of both these pharaonic megaliths and, say, Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City proposals.… (meer)