Main entry:

Irish, Sharon, 1952-

Title & Author:

Cass Gilbert, architect : modern traditionalist / Sharon Irish.

Publication:

New York : The Monacelli Press, 1999.

Description:

194 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.

Series:

Sources of American architecture

Notes:
Includes statements by Cass Gilbert.
Covers extend to form additional leaves.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-185) and index.
Author's preface -- Editor's foreword -- Color plates -- Introduction -- ch. 1. The early years : building a practive in the Midwest -- ch. 2. The move to New York : "My ship really has come in" -- ch. 3. Leadership in civic design : Nationwide commissions -- ch. 4. Balancing act : commercial heights and civic monumentality -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected buildings -- Readings -- Index.

Summary:

"American architect Cass Gilbert built many of the major monuinents of his generation. Inspired by design throughout the ages - ancient Greece and Rome, medieval and Renaissance Europe, and contemporary traditions such as the Richandsonian Romanesque - he created buildings for the sites, clients, and programs of his own time."--BOOK JACKET. "Gilbert's career reached its peak in the 1910s and 1920s with civic and commercial buildings of great significance; the Woolworth Company Building (at its 1913 completion the tallest building in the world) and the New York Life Insurance Company Building, both in New York City, the United States Military Oceans Terminal in Brooklyn, and the United States Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C. These landmark works, emblematic of Gilbert's mastery of form and expression, reaffirm his position as a leader in design and in the profession."--Jacket.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

1885254903
9781885254900

Subject:

Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934 Criticism and interpretation.
Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934 Critique et interprétation.
Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934
Gilbert, Cass 1859-1934
Gilbert, Cass, (1859-1934) Critique et interprétation.
Gilbert, Cass.
Eclecticism in architecture United States.
Éclectisme en architecture États-Unis.
Eclecticism in architecture.
Bildband
United States.

Form/genre:

Quotations (texts)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934.
Sources of American architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 205895
Call No.: NA44.G464.9 I7 1999
Status: Available