Title & Author:
OfficeUS : Atlas / edited by Eva Franch i Gilabert, Michael Kubo, Ana Miljački, Ashley Schafer.
Publication:
Zürich, Switzerland : Lars Müller Publishers, [2015]
©2015
Description:
1229 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans ; 25 cm
Notes:
"Atlas is the second book in the series of publications for OfficeUS, US Pavilion, 14th International Architecture Exhibition--la Biennale di Venezia"--Title page verso
"Atlas is the second book in the series of publications for OfficeUS, US Pavilion, 14th International Architecture Exhibition--la Biennale di Venezia"--Verso of title page.
Includes bibliographical references.
On OfficeUS / Eva Franch i Gilabert, Ana Miljački, Ashely Schafer -- On OfficeUS Atlas / Ana Miljački, Michael Kubo -- How Atlas works -- OfficeUS projects -- OfficeUS firms -- [I.] Gentleman and architect: the formation of professional practice in the US : The organization of an architect's office no.1, 1890 -- How architects work, 1911 / D. Everett Waid -- The business side of an architect's office, 1913 / D. Everett Waid -- The business side of an architect's office: the office of Messrs. McKim, Mead & White, 1913 / D. Everett Waid -- The offices of Albert Khan, architect, Detroit, Michigan, 1918 / George Baldwin -- Holabird & Root, 1937 -- The firm of Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1941 / Henry H. Saylor -- Offices established 1985-1895 -- [II.] Imperial beauty: planning for democracy abroad : "The empirial battle" 1938-1949 / Marion Mahony -- "Canberra": the new capital city of Australia, 1912 -- The work of William E. Parsons in the Philippine Islands, part I, 1917 / A.N. Pebori -- Offices established 1901-1915 -- [III.] The missionary challenge: philanthropy and institution-building at the turn of the century : McKim's way, 1916 / Glenn Brown -- The American architect and the architectural review, editorial comment, 1924 -- Peking Union College, The Harvard Medical School of the Far East, 1921 / George E. Vincent -- Yenching University carries on tradition of early founders, 1934 / Samuel M. Chao -- Offices established 1921-1926 -- Projects: 1919-1929 -- [IV.] To Russia with love: reverse engineering "American efficiency" : USSR in construction no.1, 1933 ; Industrial buildings: Albert Kahn Inc., 1938 ; Producer of production lines: Albert Kahn Architect, 1942 ; Building in one package, 1945 -- Offices established 1928-1939 -- Projects 1928-1939 -- [V.] Flight paths: emigrating European practices and pedagogies : Émigrés: arrival and projects abroad -- Genetrix: personal contributions to American architecture, 1957 ; The place of Mies in American architecture, 1961 / William H. Jordy -- Marcel Breuer, 1961 / Paolo Portoghesi -- Design firm case study: Victor Gruen Associates, 1960 -- Offices established 1937-1943 -- Projects 1940-1944 -- [VI.] Incorporating architecture: the business of postwar practice : The architecture of bureaucracy & the architecture of genius, 1947 / Henry-Russell Hitchcock -- The experiment of S.O.M., 1957 / Sigfried Giedion -- S.O.M. organization, 1957 / William E. Hartman -- Organization for efficient practice 1: Eggers & Higgins, 1960 -- Organization for efficient practice 2: Daniel, Mann, Johnson & Mendenhall, 1960 -- Organization for efficient practice 3: Caudill, Rowlett and Scott, 1960 -- Organization for efficient practice 5: Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum, 1961 / Gyo Obata, George E. Kassabaum, George F. Hellmuth -- The new Saarinen office, 1963 / Walter McQuade -- The fine and the folk: an essay on McKim, Mead and White and the American tradition, 1965 / Peter Smithson -- Offices established 1945-1948 -- [VI.] Marshalling resources: the regulation of the Pax Americana : US commitments around the world -- US building abroad, 1955 -- The architect and his community: Oficina Don Hatch, 1954 -- Puerto Rico, 1945 -- Creole Petroleum Corporation, Amuay Bay, Venezuela, S.A., 1946 / Skidmore, Owings & Merrill -- Offices established 1948-1949 -- Projects 1946-1950 -- [VIII.] Intercontinental comfort: Little Americas abroad : Hilton Hotel advertisements -- Hotels: Holabird & Root & Burgee & Associates, Architects, 1950 -- Intercontinental hotels: design for tourism, 1953 -- Tourist hotel for Istanbul, Turkey, 1953 -- Bill Tabler's hotel room, 1957 -- Habana Hilton, 1958 -- Offices established 1951-1953 -- Projects 1950-1953 -- [IX.] The image of good government: the foreign buildings operations program : FBO material gains from post-World War II debt -- U.S. architecture abroad, 1953 -- Architecture to represent America abroad, 1955 -- USA abroad, 1957 -- Offices established 1954-1955 -- Projects 1954-1956
[X.] Broadcasting USA: soft power and the United States Information Agency : Funding for US participation in Class I world expositions -- Design as a political force, 1957 / Jane Fiske Mitarachi -- US architecture in West Berlin, 1958 -- "Man in America", Cambridge Study Group for the Brussels Universal and International Exhibition, 1957-1958 -- "Some unfinished business of the American Community", 1957-1958 / W.W. Rostow -- What the Russians will see, 1959 / Gereon Zimmermann -- Montreal Dome: inside the bubble, 1966 -- Expo 67: drop-out, 1967 -- The U.S. at Osaka, 1968 -- Offices established 1957-1962 -- Projects 1956-1962 -- [XI.] Nation buildings: post-colonial symbols and infrastructures : US architects in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh 1947-1975 -- New work in the office of Ed Stone, 1961 -- Islamabad: a progress report on Pakistan's new capital city, 1967 / Nicholas Taylor -- Master plan study gives East Pakistan new approaches for tropical architecture, 1968 / Raymond Lifchez -- Visions of grandeur, 1982 / Brian Brace Taylor -- Offices established 1963-1972 -- Projects 1963-1972 -- [XII.] Money matters: architectural competition on the open market : Net profiles -- Decay of the old ethics, 1968 / Stephen A. Kliment -- Architecture: the entrepreneurial profession, 1977 / Robert Gutmann -- The individual: Richard Meier, 1977 / Suzanne Stephens -- The corporate architect: Paul Kennon, CRS, 1977 / John Morris Dixon -- SOM at midlife, 1981 / Suzanne Stephens -- HOK: an American recipe for success, 1982 / Stephen Trombley -- Portmania, 1984 / Maeve Slavin -- BTA in the 1990s: the place, the people, the culture, 1990 / Dennis J. De Witt -- Projects 1972-1973 -- [XIII.] Crude ideals: architecture and oil in the Gulf States : US architects in the Gulf States 1945-1991 -- Americans abroad: Brown and Daltas in Iran, 1962 -- The oil-rich Mideast: the new frontier for professional services?, 1975 / Charles Hoyt -- Partners in growth: the Gulf, 1977 / John Lawton -- Los Angeles companies create worldwide impact, 1978 / Ruth Ryon -- American designers in Arabia, 1985 -- Offices established 1974-1980 -- Projects 1973-1981 -- [XIV.] Command line: the computer-aided office : SOM's computer approach, 1980 -- The traditional office is transformed, 1985 / Susan Doubilet, Thomas Fisher -- The traditional office is transformed: HOK, 1985 / Deborah K. Dietsch -- How one firm broke into CAD through design, not production, 1993 / John Hughes -- Freedom of form, 1994 / B.J. Novitski -- New Gehry: technologies will enable many to boldly go where only Frank has gone before, 2003 / Deborah Snoonian -- Offices established 1981-1985 -- Projects 1981-1985 -- [XV.] Profit margin: signature developments in Europe and Japan : Americans abroad: come coming attractions, 1989 / Nora Richter Greer -- European forecast, 1990 / Andrea Oppenheimer Dean -- Americans in London, 1990 / Deborah K. Dietsch -- Japanese imports, 1990 / Mildred F. Schmertz -- Model homes, 1990 / Lynn Nesmith -- That's entertainment, 1990 / Suzanne Stephens -- Exporting architecture: New York architects abroad, 1995 / Nina Rappaport -- Offices established 1986-1988 -- Projects 1985-19888 -- [XVI.] Getting defensive: FBO security protocols after the cold war : Attacks on US embassies -- The current state of State Department Building, 1989 / Bill N. Lacy -- State Department calls for razing of bugged embassy in Moscow, 1989 / Lynn Nesmith -- Safe diplomacy, 1990 / Lynn Nesmith -- Ambivalent symbol, 1993 / James S. Russell -- A fortress with no apologies, 1996 / Karen D. Stein -- Offices established 1989-1990 -- Projects 1988-1990 -- [XVII.] Architecture, engineering, construction, operations, management: the rise of the multinational office : AECOM family tree -- Foreign exchange: advice from the experts, British reaction, 1990 / Karin Tetlow -- How to get ahead and stay there, 1997 -- US practices find their feet in expanding London, 1997, David Taylor -- When bigger is better, 1998 / Philip Langdon -- The house of Morrison, 2008 / Amanda Kolson Hurley -- Making it big, 2010 / Aaron Seward -- Offices established 1990-1996 -- Projects 1990-1997 -- [XVIII.] Dreamworlds: architectures of conspicuous consumption : Canal City Hakata, Fukuoka, Japan, 1997 / Karen Stein -- The pharaoh's fantasy, 1997 / Eleanor Curtis -- The Bilbao effect, 1999 / Suzanne Stephens -- Spirit of the age, 1999 / Nicola Turner -- Offices established 1998-2000 -- Projects 1998-2000 -- [XIX.] Open for business: developments in Asia : Currency exchange rates -- Asia bound, 1995 / Philip Langdon -- China: moving heaven and earth, and doing it faster than you thought possible, 2004 / Clifford A. Pearson -- Projects taking shape in China, 2004 / Sam Lubell -- Shanghai World Financial Center rises again, 2007 / Colin Galloway -- Offices established 2002-2003 -- Projects 2001-2004 -- [XX.] Architectural playgrounds: emerging practices, global platforms : Borderline personality, 2004 / Iris Moon -- Jinhua architecture park: organized by Ai Weiwei, 2005 / Toshiko Mori -- The new small architectural practices, 2010 / Sebastian Schmaling -- Into Africa: continental shift, 2012 / Howard W. French -- Forward thinking, 2012 / Asad Syrkett -- Offices established 2003-2006 -- Projects 2004-2006 -- [XXI.] Beyond mega-: sustaining superlatives : World's tallest buildings -- Asia's tallest towers, 1996 / Ann C. Sullivan -- Positive energy, 2008 / Vernon Mays -- Beyond limits, 2010 / Josephine Minutilo -- The short and the tall of it, 2012 / Clifford A. Pearson -- Enter the dragon, 2012 / Suzanne Stephens -- Sculpting the skyline, 2012 / Joann Gonchar -- Kingdom come, 2012 / Suzanne Stephens, Carol Willis -- Offices established 2006-2011 -- Projects 2007-2014.
Summary:
"Collects a key press archive of US architectural production abroad and the transformations of the US architectural office over the last hundred years"--Page 11
ISBN:
9783037784389 (hardcover)
3037784385 (hardcover)
Subject:
Architecture, American 20th century Exhibitions.
Architecture, American 21st century Exhibitions.
Architectural firms United States History Exhibitions.
Offices United States Design and construction History Exhibitions.
Office buildings United States Design and construction History Exhibitions.
Architecture américaine 20e siècle Expositions.
Architecture américaine 21e siècle Expositions.
Agences d'architecture États-Unis Histoire Expositions.
Offices Design and construction.
Office buildings Design and construction.
Architectural firms.
Architecture, American.
Architectural offices Exhibitions
Architecture, American Exhibitions.
United States.
Form/genre:
Exhibition publications.
History.
Exhibition catalogs.
Added entries:
Franch i Gilabert, Eva, editor.
Miljački, Ana, editor.
Schafer, Ashley, editor.
Kubo, Michael, editor.
Franch i Gilabert, Eva editor.
Kubo, Michael editor.
Miljački, Ana editor.
Schafer, Ashley editor.
International Architectural Exhibition (14th : 2014 : Venice, Italy). U.S. Pavilion.
OfficeUS ; 2.
Atlas
Holdings:
Location: Library main 289391
Call No.: BIB 231814
Status: Available
