Main entry:

Huxtable, Ada Louise, author.

Title & Author:

Kicked a building lately? / Ada Louise Huxtable.

Publication:

New York : Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., ©1976.

Description:

xvi, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
The present - Buildings. The monumental muddle. The Kennedy Center, I -- The Kennedy Center, II -- The Hirshhorn Museum -- The Lehman Wing of the Metropolitan Museum -- The Kennedy Library -- The Hospitality industry. Stale air and the plastic esthetic -- Every little room is lapidus in bloom -- Housing the American dream. Measuring the dream -- Some handsome housing mythology -- Art and theory. A bizarre monument to non-architecture -- Building by the system -- Architecture in the 1970s -- Building you love to hate -- A loss of faith -- Visionary architecture -- What's in a wall? -- Rediscovering -- Art and building. Pennzoil: Houston's towering achievement -- American can: it's so peaceful in the country -- Akron Arts Center: at last they've got it right -- The New Senate Office Building: how to slipcover a blockbuster -- The National Gallery: breaking the rule of mediocrity -- Princeton Institute: at the head of its class -- The work of Marcel Breuer -- Alvar Aalto: Mt. Angel Library -- Louis Kahn: Exeter Library -- Louis Kahn: the meaning of a wall -- The present - Cities. New York. "Senza rispetto" -- An urban spectacular -- How to build a civic center -- Bad news about Times Square -- The blooming of downtown Brooklyn -- Battery Park city: dream or disaster? -- Big but not so bold: the World Trade Center -- Small but significant: Henry Street settlement -- Perspective on the city: three buildings -- The photographer's eye, I -- The photographer's eye, II -- New York: dead or alive" -- Houston. Deep in the heart of nowhere -- Salem, Mass. Renewing it right -- Chicago. A pride of buildings -- Atlanta. The new American city -- New Orleans. The old American city -- Washington. Capital failtures -- Marblehead, Mass. Spirit of '76 -- London. The second Blitz -- How far from the ocean -- Covent Garden, I -- Covent Garden, II -- The past. Pleasures. Hawksmoor's London -- Piranesi's Rome -- Jefferson's Virginia -- The sorcery of Gaudí -- The chairs of Macintosh -- Art and nostalgia and the great World's Fairs -- The skyscraper style -- Beaux Arts building I have known -- A hard act to follow -- The future grows old -- Friends in public places -- Where the past meets the future. Successes. New York: the creative continuity of history and art -- New York: sprucing up the Bank of Tokyo -- Albany: a happy alliance of past and present -- Boston: a sensitive succession -- Washington: Victoriana lives -- Philadelphia: the bizarre and the beautiful -- Failures. Goodbye history, hello hamburger -- Only the phony is real -- Of landmarks and litter, or the games gnomes play -- Dilemmas. An exercise in cultural shock -- Can anyone use a nice Anglo-Italianate symbol of graft? -- Kicking a landmark -- ...With the other foot -- A hopeful toast -- The near past. Reflections on the near past -- Rediscovering Chicago architecture -- Through the artist's eye -- Looking back at the future. The city as dream: Hugh Ferriss.

ISBN:

0812906306
9780812906301

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century Themes, motives.
Architecture.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture 20e siècle Thèmes, motifs.
architecture (discipline)
Architecture, Modern Themes, motives.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 19150
Call No.: PO16138; ID:87-B6385
Status: Available