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The metropolis of the future -- as perceived by architect Hugh Ferriss in 1929 -- was both generous and prophetic in vision. Largely an illustrated essay on the modern city and its future, Ferriss' book incorporated his philosophy of architecture. Includes powerful illustrations of towering structures, personal space, wide avenues, and rooftop parks. 59 illustrations. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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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. ( )