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Author:

Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934.

Title:

Inventing the skyline : the architecture of Cass Gilbert / edited by Margaret Heilbrun ; with an introduction by Hugh Hardy.

Publisher:

Columbia University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2000

Description:

xxxvii, 306 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Subject:

Gilbert, Cass,--1859-1934.--Exhibitions.
New-York Historical Society.--Exhibitions.
Eclecticism in architecture--United States.--Exhibitions.
Architectural drawing--Private collections--New York--New York--Exhibitions.
Architectural drawing--New York--New York--Exhibitions.

Other Authors:

Heilbrun, Margaret.
New-York Historical Society.

Notes:

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the New-York Historical Society, summer-fall 2000. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Cass Gilbert in practice, 1882-1934 / Sharon Irish -- From sketch to architecture : drawings in the Cass Gilbert office / Mary Beth Betts -- Cass Gilbert : twelve projects / Mary Beth Betts -- The architect as planner : Cass Gilbert's responses to historic open space / Barbara S. Christen -- Cass Gilbert's skyscrapers in New York : the twentieth-century city and the urban picturesque / Gail Fenske.

ISBN:

9780231118736 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0231118732 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780231118729 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0231118724 (cloth : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)43227473

LCCN:

99086736

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)