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Title: Skyscrapers by Judith Dupre, Judith Dupre, Philip Johnson ISBN: 1-884822-45-2 Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub Pub. Date: June, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.88 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A book for everyone
Comment: I have the 1996 hardcover edition of this book and do not know what revisions have been made to this latest addition, however I imagine the text and content will be very similar.
I have found this book to be an excellent source of information on skyscapers in general and the buildings featured in particular.
It has a very easy to read format, witch follows the developement of the skyscraper, with two pages at a time dedicated to one building. This makes it ideal for flicking through and just reading here and there at what ever catches your eye. There are also small gerneral interest and overviews pages troughout the book that help to explain the developement of these buildings.
Not a lot of technical details also make this an easy read and ideal for younger readers.
This is one of the best books I have seen on the subject and I have no reservations recomending this book to anyone even remotely interested in these large buildings.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Tall Book For Tall Buildings!
Comment: (The following review is dedicated to the brave men and women who lost their lives on 9/11/01.)
At first glance, the aptly titled "Skyscapers" pictorial has the guise of a tall building. With an impeccable presentation, the book faithfully maintains the original context of each building represented with beautiful black & white photos. It gives the reader a nuts-and-bolts perspective: Judith Dupre, et al, along with the enigmatic architect, Philip Johnson, the unparalled book takes the reader on an incredible journey. From the pioneering Reliance Building in Chicago to the defunct World Trade Center in New York City, from the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco to the Ulm Cathedral in Germany--it never ceases to amaze me, the enormous contributions these towering marvels have made in our behalf. They're magnificent places where people gather to work and make an honest living. And, they're magnificent places where people gather to worship and reflect upon life's mere existance. All things considered, this book will inspire any aspiring architect to reach for the sky. At home, it proudly sits atop my desk. If you're an architectural buff, this is the book for you.
Rating: 5
Summary: An exuberant, elegant, and thoughtful survey of skyscrapers.
Comment: I wish to call attention to Judith Dupre's _Skyscrapers_(New York,Black Dog & Leventhal,1996) which on first glance one might relegate to the coffee table. Designed to accommodate photos of very tall buildings, the book itself stands a foot and a half tall and like the structures it represents, is likely to tower over the other volumes on the shelf.A model of exuberant and elegant design, this book is also athoughtful historical survey which focuses on 50 significantstructures including the Ulm Cathedral (the world's tallest spire), the Washington Monument (tallest masonry tower) and the Eiffel Tower. Naturally, the buildings of NYC and Chicago which Dupre calls, "the two great laboratories of skyscraper design" take center stage, but the book should appeal broadly because of its appreciative sense ofthe ancient and universal inclination of city builders (since Babel) to put up towers. (The tallest buildings in the world are now going up in the Pacific Rim nations.)Dupre also had the good sense to allow her interview with Philip Johnson to serve as the introduction. Johnson, one of the master skyscraper builders (represented here by his AT&T headquarters and "Lipstick" building in NYC and the magnificent NationsBank Center in Houston), maintains an agreeable sense of detachment toward thismonumental and at times, pretentious artform. He points out that "there is no economic need to build skyscrapers anywhere... There is never a relationship between the cost of these buildings to their utility...[not even in Manhattan.] Skyscrapers will always be fancy,they will always be expensive, they will always be extra. It's pride. Towers are for power." He speaks more affectionately of his tiny "Gatehouse" built in 1995 than the AT&T building with the conspicuous Chippendale top. At 90, he says he is in mid-career and yearns tobuild a colossal statute along the lines of the Statue of Liberty.Author Dupre is respectful of these great towers, but not uncritical.She points out that the building New Yorkers would most like to see torn down is the huge and utterly misplaced Pan Am building. And she points to other inappropriate constructions. (Frank Lloyd Wright'sstriking Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma is so impractically designed, that it is useless as office space.)This book will have great appeal to students from engineering, and related disciplines who have wandered into an urban studies courses; but as author Dupre points out, it really is for all those "who like to look up when they walk down a city street." At around $20, it isalso a bargain.Jim WunschEmpire State Colleg
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Title: 1,001 Skyscrapers by Eric Howeler, Jeannie Meejin Yoon ISBN: 1568982291 Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press Pub. Date: 15 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Bridges by Judith Dupre, Frank O. Gehry ISBN: 1884822754 Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Skyscrapers: The New Millennium by John Zukowsky, Martha Thorne ISBN: 3791323431 Publisher: Prestel USA Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Manhattan Skyscrapers by Eric Peter Nash, Norman McGrath ISBN: 1568981813 Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Skyscrapers by Ariadina Alvarez Garreta, Ariadna Alvarez Garreta, Peter Miller, Julian Bermejo ISBN: 8495692252 Publisher: Atrium Arto Editorial Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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