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12%OFFAdnan Morshed - Impossible Heights: Skyscrapers, Flight, and the Master Builder - 9780816673193 - V9780816673193
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Impossible Heights: Skyscrapers, Flight, and the Master Builder

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Description for Impossible Heights: Skyscrapers, Flight, and the Master Builder Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 96 black & white illustrations, 12 colour plates. BIC Classification: AK; AMC; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 17. Weight in Grams: 662.

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 ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816673193
SKU
V9780816673193
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Adnan Morshed
Adnan Morshed is associate professor of architecture and architectural history at the Catholic University of America.

Reviews for Impossible Heights: Skyscrapers, Flight, and the Master Builder
“Impossible Heights is an original account of the American fascination with the skyscraper and the airplane and the enthusiasm for the new perspective on high from which people surveyed the city and landscape. Adnan Morshed examines the intersections between intellectual biography, visuality, and cultural history and brings together the ‘art of architecture’ with mass culture and spectatorship. In doing so, ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Impossible Heights: Skyscrapers, Flight, and the Master Builder


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