In Miami in the 1980s : the vanishing architecture of a "Paradise lost" / edited by Charlotte von Moos ; contributors, Max Creasy, Kersten Geers, Niels Olsen, and Charlotte von Moos.

Title & Author:

In Miami in the 1980s : the vanishing architecture of a "Paradise lost" / edited by Charlotte von Moos ; contributors, Max Creasy, Kersten Geers, Niels Olsen, and Charlotte von Moos.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Köln : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, [2022]
©2022

Description:

173 pages, 11 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Charlotte von Moos -- Bye-bye Babylon / Charlotte von Moos -- The inexplicable beauty of walls / Niels Olsen -- Looking for America / Kersten Geers -- Forever in paintings / Charlotte von Moos -- The Babylon : a photographic record / Max Creasy -- Incomplete collection of projects / Charlotte von Moos.

Summary:

This book brings together a group of essays, a photo series, and a catalogue of selected projects of Miami's 1980s architecture--some built, some unbuilt. The text and the accompanying images celebrate a period in American architecture when, in Miami, the subtropical nexus of the Americas, art and architecture were intensely interconnected, and Miami architects were partaking in the discipline's international discourse. Triggered by the case of The Babylon, Arquitectonica's first building, which after having been designated as a protected landmark in 2016 was in 2019 sadly demolished, Charlotte von Moos's research was driven by a sense of urgency about today's lack of care for such remarkable projects.

ISBN:

9783753301105 (hardbound)
3753301108 (hardbound)

Subject:

Architecture Florida Miami History.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Lost architecture Florida Miami.
Nineteen eighties.
Architecture Floride Miami Histoire.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Monuments disparus Floride Miami.
Années quatre-vingt (Vingtième siècle)
Architecture
Architecture, Modern
Lost architecture
Florida Miami

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Moos, Charlotte von, editor, writer of supplementary textual content.
Creasy, Max, 1976- writer of supplementary textual content.
Olsen, Niels (Curator), writer of supplementary textual content.
Geers, Kersten, 1975- writer of supplementary textual content.

Vanishing architecture of a "Paradise lost"

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315722
Call No.: 315722
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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