Main entry:

Randl, Chad.

Title & Author:

Revolving architecture : a history of buildings that rotate, swivel, and pivot / Chad Randl.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©2008.

Description:

208 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-203) and index.
Early history of rotating buildings -- Rotating architecture 1900-1945 -- Postwar rotating designs -- The postwar revolving residence.
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Summary:

"The follow-up to his critically acclaimed book A-frame, Chad Randl's Revolving Architecture explores the history of this unique building type, investigating the cultural forces that have inspired people to design and inhabit them. Revolving Architecture is packed with a variety of fantastic structures: a jail that kept inmates under the warden's constant surveillance, glamorous revolving restaurants, tuberculosis treatment wards, houses, theaters, and even a contemporary residential building whose full-floor apartments circle independently of each other. International examples from the late 1800s through the present demonstrate the variety and innovation of these dynamic structures."--Jacket.

Resources:
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Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9781568986814 (alk. paper)
1568986815

Subject:

Rotating buildings.
Immeubles tournants.
21.60 architecture: general.
Rundhaus
Architektur
Mobile Architektur

Holdings:

Location: Library main 257369
Call No.: BIB 187853
Status: Available