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10%OFFDavid Smiley - Pedestrian Modern: Shopping and American Architecture, 1925–1956 - 9780816679300 - V9780816679300
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Pedestrian Modern: Shopping and American Architecture, 1925–1956

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Description for Pedestrian Modern: Shopping and American Architecture, 1925–1956 Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 133 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJP; AMVD; AMX; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 20. Weight in Grams: 916.


Too close to the wiles and calculations of consumption, stores and shopping centers are generally relegated to secondary, pedestrian status in the history of architecture. And yet, throughout the middle decades of the twentieth century, stores and shopping centers were an important locus of modernist architectural thought and practice. Under the mantle of modernism, the merchandising problems and possibilities of main streets, cities, and suburbs became legitimate—if also conflicted—responsibilities of the architectural profession.


In Pedestrian Modern, David Smiley reveals how the design for places of consumption informed emerging modernist tenets. The architect was viewed as a coordinator and a ... Read more


Tracing the history of architecture’s relationship with retail environments during a time of significant transformation in urban centers and in open suburban landscapes, Smiley expands and qualifies the making of American modernism.


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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816679300
SKU
V9780816679300
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About David Smiley
David Smiley teaches at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University.

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