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Alexander Eisenschmidt

    The good metropolis
    Chicagoisms
    • Chicagoisms

      The City as Catalyst for Architectural Speculation

      • 192 stránok
      • 7 hodin čítania

      Chicago has long captured the global imagination as a place of tall, shining buildings rising from the fog, the playground for many of architecture's greats-from Mies van der Rohe to Frank Lloyd Wright-and a surprising epicenter for modern construction and building techniques. In this volume, Alexander Eisenschmidt and Jonathan Mekinda have brought together a diverse pool of curators, artists, architects, historians, critics, and theorists to produce a multifarious portrait of the Second City.00.

      Chicagoisms
    • The good metropolis

      • 240 stránok
      • 9 hodin čítania

      The publication presents the first historical analysis of the tension between the city and architectural form. It introduces 20th century theories to construct a historical context from which a new architecture-city relationship emerged. The book provides a conceptual framework to understand this relationship and comes to the conclusion that urbanization may be filled with potential, i. e. be a Good Metropolis.

      The good metropolis