Tower and office
Subtitle: from modernist theory to contemporary practice
By: Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros ; edited by Joan Ockman ; translated by Megan McFarland with Stephanie Salomon.
Contributors: Herreros, Juan, 1958-; Ockman, Joan.
Publisher: MIT Press; The MIT Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
Subjects: Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 -- Criticism and interpretation; Skyscrapers -- United States; Architecture and technology -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Description: "In Tower and Office, Spanish architects Inaki Abalos and Juan Herreros look at the role and impact of advanced building technologies in American architecture since World War II. The war, they claim, marked the end of the first cycle of modernism, challenging the belief that technological progress alone could produce a perpetually better future. At the same time, the war was the source of powerful new structural models and construction methods. The authors examine the ways these technologies have been inflected over the last half century by more subjective and integrated processes of spatial organization."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A Buell Center/Columbia book of architecture."
Rev. ed. of Spanish original.