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Minoru Yamasaki and the fragility of architecture / Paul Kidder.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kidder, Paul, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yamasaki, Minoru, 1912-1986--Criticism and interpretation.
- Yamasaki, Minoru.
- Yamasaki, Minoru, 1912-1986.
- Art and society--United States--History--20th century.
- Art and society.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- United States.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 258 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Paul Kidder, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University, where he has taught courses on the history of philosophy, existentialism, philosophical hermeneutics, philosophy of art and architecture, and ethics in urban affairs. He is the author of Gadamer for Architects (2012), published by Routledge.
- Contents:
- 1 Rethinking Yamasaki p. 1
- Yamasaki known and unknown p. 1
- The fate of a style p. 5
- The fragility of architecture p. 12
- Course of the study p. 15
- 2 The fragility of dreams p. 19
- Inspiration and tribulation p. 20
- The making of a modernist p. 27
- Founding a practice p. 30
- Success and its costs p. 37
- The long shot p. 38
- The persistence of culture p. 41
- 3 The fragility of the city p. 47
- Design on trial p. 49
- High-risers and low-risers p. 52
- Looking beyond design p. 55
- A hard legacy p. 59
- 4 The most fragile of arts p. 65
- The flower and the deer p. 66
- The experiential dimension p. 72
- The devil in the details p. 75
- The architecture of humanism p. 78
- 5 The presence of the past p. 85
- Japanese heritage p. 88
- Islamic legacies p. 94
- Venetian synthesis p. 100
- Classical transformations p. 106
- "The New Formalism" p. 108
- 6 The moral imperative p. 119
- Ethics and ethos p. 121
- Ethics in practice p. 122
- The ethos of modern architecture p. 123
- Expressing structure p. 126
- Strength as symbol p. 132
- The question reconsidered p. 136
- 7 Populism and democratic culture p. 141
- Symbolizing the state p. 143
- Imagining the academy p. 145
- Serving the market p. 156
- Populism and manufactured culture p. 160
- Serious play p. 163
- 8 Greatness and vulnerability p. 167
- St. Louis sequel p. 167
- The calamity wager p. 171
- Scale and concentration p. 173
- City in the sky p. 174
- The scale of tragedy p. 182
- Greatness and bigness p. 186
- 9 The ambiguity of symbols p. 189
- The nature of symbol p. 191
- The sacreo and the mundane p. 193
- The World Trade Center as symbol p. 202
- Rebuilding and not rebuilding p. 210
- 10 Postmodern postludes p. 219
- The day modern architecture died p. 220
- Postmodern theory p. 222
- Iconic historicism p. 224
- Postmodern violence and anti-violence p. 228
- 11 The question of preservation p. 235
- Historical grounds for preservation p. 241
- Grounds in artistic merit p. 245
- The presence of Yamasaki p. 248.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 18, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Kidder, Paul. Minoru Yamasaki and the fragility of architecture
- ISBN:
- 9781003111566
- 1003111564
- 9781000417104
- 1000417107
- 9781000417135
- 1000417131
- Publisher Number:
- 40030669301
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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