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Morshed, Adnan.
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Architecture and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Technological innovations -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Philosophy.
Aeronautics and civilization.
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Impossible heights :...
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Impossible heights : skyscrapers, flight, and the master builder / Adnan Morshed.
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Morshed, Adnan.
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
Subjects
Architecture and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Technological innovations -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Philosophy.
Aeronautics and civilization.
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9780816673186 (hbk.)
0816673187 (hbk.)
9780816673193 (pbk.)
0816673195 (pbk.)
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xi, 291 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
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"The advent of the airplane and skyscraper in 1920s and '30s America offered the population an entirely new way to look at the world: from above. The captivating image of an airplane flying over the rising metropolis led many Americans to believe a new civilization had dawned. In Impossible Heights, Adnan Morshed examines the aesthetics that emerged from this valorization of heights and their impact on the built environment. The lofty vantage point from the sky ushered in a modernist impulse to cleanse crowded twentieth-century cities in anticipation of an ideal world of tomorrow. Inspired by great new heights, American architects became central to this endeavor and were regarded as heroic aviators. Combining close readings of a broad range of archival sources, Morshed offers new interpretations of works such as Hugh Ferriss's Metropolis drawings, Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion houses, and Norman Bel Geddes's Futurama exhibit at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Transformed by the populist imagination into "master builders," these designers helped produce a new form of visuality: the aesthetics of ascension. By demonstrating how aerial movement and height intersect with popular "superman" discourses of the time, Morshed reveals the relationship between architecture, art, science, and interwar pop culture. Featuring a marvelous array of never before published illustrations, this richly textured study of utopian imaginings illustrates America's propulsion into a new cultural consciousness. "--Provided by publisher.
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