Looking beyond the Icons: Midcentury Architecture, Landscape, and Urbanism
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (721 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813936438 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is currently president of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy and is the author, most recently, of The American Department Store Transformed, 1920–1960 and the editor of Frank Lloyd Wright: Preservation, Design, and Adding to Iconic Buildings (Virginia).. Richard Longstreth is Professor of American Studies and Director of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation at
Looking beyond the Icons offers a generous and diverse selection of his writings over the past twenty-five years. architecture, landscape, and urbanism, and provides a detailed analysis of both the imperatives for and the challenges involved in preserving this legacy.. This collection offers a new understanding of the richness and variety of mid-twentieth-century U.S. 1945–70) preservation efforts, including practical, intellectual, and psychological dilemmas associated with preserving the recent past, preservation-related deficiencies in the urban planning process, and preservation of specific types of buildings. The author explores a variety of topics related to midcentury (ca. Renowned for his extensive work in architectural history and historic preservation as an educator, scholar, activist, a
The kind of exemplary, in-depth historical analyses that Longstreth presents here should be part of any preservation review. Neumann, Brown University)Longstreth's essays are thought provoking and offer a real-time history of an increasingly important aspect of the historic preservation movement. (Robert Wojtowicz, Old Dominion University, author of Lewis Mumford and American Modernism: Eutopian Theories for Architecture and Urban Planning)Looking beyond the Icons should be required reading for anyone with a personal or professional stake in the heritage and future of both historic preservation and the twentieth-century built environment. Finally, the introductory chapters on Style and Taste are sublime – they alone are worth the price of the volume.These old and new essays by eminent historian and preservationist Richard Longstreth are united by a common cause: their passionate advocacy for preserving our built heri