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The Pan Am Building and the Shattering of the Modernist Dream
Meredith L. Clausen
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| #916276 in Books | MIT Press | 2004-12-07 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.00 x8.00l,3.30 | File type: PDF | 416 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Overly long, repetitive and lost my interest|By D-Bronx|Frankly this book disappointed me. I found the writing overly long and quite repetitive. The author used the terms "Grand Central Terminal" and "Grand Central Station" interchangeably, and should have known the difference. In addition, several grammatical errors made me wonder if the the editor bothered reading it. Was tem|From Publishers Weekly|When completed in Manhattan in 1963, the Pan Am Building towered over the barely preserved Grand Central Station and was the opening salvo in the glass-box corporate architectural revolution along lower Park Avenue. In this engaging study,
The Pan Am Building and the reaction to it signaled the end of an era. Begun when the modernist aesthetic and the architectural star system ruled architectural theory and practice, the completed building became a symbol of modernism's fall from grace. In The Pan Am Building and the Shattering of the Modernist Dream, Meredith Clausen tells the story as both history and cautionary tale -- a case study of how not to plan and execute a large-scale urban project that seems...
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