Revolving Architecture
Subtitle: A History of Buildings That Rotate, Swivel, and Pivot
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: May 15, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781568986814
Subjects: Architecture; Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings; Architecture / General; General; Revolving buildings
Description: "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.