ARCHITECTURE OF GROSVENOR ATTERBURY
by PENNOYER, PETER;WALKER, ANNE
List Price: HK$ 713.00
ˇ@ISBN
9780393732221
ˇ@Subject
ART, ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN & PHOTOGRAPHY
ˇ@Publisher
W. W. NORTON
ˇ@Publication
2009
ˇ@Edition
Hardcover
ˇ@Version
Original
ˇ@Description
In the final decade of the 19th century and the early 20th century, the United States experienced exponential growth and a flourishing economy, and with it, a building boom. Grosvenor Atterbury (1869ˇV1956) produced more than one hundred major projects, however, it was his role as town planner and civic leader and his work to create model tenements, hospitals, workersˇ¦ housing, and town plans for which he is most celebrated. Atterbury was responsible for one of the countryˇ¦s first low-cost, prefabricated concrete construction systems, introducing beauty and inexpensive good design into the lives of the working classes. The Architecture of Grosvenor Atterbury is the first book to showcase the rich and varied repertoire of this prolific architect whose career spanned six decades and whose work affected the course of American architecture, planning, and construction. (Pub Date: 31 Aug 2009)
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