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Looking Beyond the Icons
Richard Longstreth
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Description for Looking Beyond the Icons
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 158 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 20. Weight in Grams: 612.
Renowned for his extensive work in architectural history and historic preservation as an educator, scholar, activist, and public lecturer, Richard Longstreth is one of the most important architectural preservationists of the recent past. Looking beyond the Icons offers a generous and diverse selection of his writings over the past twenty-five years. The author explores a variety of topics related to midcentury (ca. 1945–70) preservation efforts, including practical, intellectual, and psychological dilemmas associated with preserving the recent past, preservation-related deficiencies in the urban planning process, and preservation of specific types of buildings. This collection offers a new understanding of the richness ... Read more
Renowned for his extensive work in architectural history and historic preservation as an educator, scholar, activist, and public lecturer, Richard Longstreth is one of the most important architectural preservationists of the recent past. Looking beyond the Icons offers a generous and diverse selection of his writings over the past twenty-five years. The author explores a variety of topics related to midcentury (ca. 1945–70) preservation efforts, including practical, intellectual, and psychological dilemmas associated with preserving the recent past, preservation-related deficiencies in the urban planning process, and preservation of specific types of buildings. This collection offers a new understanding of the richness ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813936444
SKU
V9780813936444
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99-44
About Richard Longstreth
Richard Longstreth is Professor of American Studies and Director of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation at George Washington University. He is currently president of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy and is the author, most recently, of The American Department Store Transformed, 1920–1960 and the editor of Frank Lloyd Wright: Preservation, Design, and Adding to Iconic Buildings (Virginia).
Reviews for Looking Beyond the Icons
Richard Longstreth is one of the most respected architectural historians working today. He is best known as an expert on America’s commercial architecture and roadside vernacular, but, as this collection of essays demonstrates, his knowledge of the twentieth-century built environment is virtually encyclopedic. This is a thought-provoking volume that prompts one to rethink long-held assumptions about modernism—its failures and achievements ... Read more