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The Seagram building rises over New York's Park Avenue, seeming to float above the street with perfect lines of bronze and glass. Considered one of the greatest icons of twentieth-century architecture, the building was commissioned by Samuel Bronfman, founder of the Canadian distillery dynasty Seagram. Bronfman's daughter Phyllis Lambert was twenty-seven years old when she took over the search for an architect and chose Mies van der Rohe (18861969), a pioneering modern master of what he termed "skin and bones" architecture. Mies, who designed the elegant, deceptively simple thirty-eight-story tower along with Philip Johnson (19062005), emphasized the beauty of structure and fine materials, and set the building back from the avenue, creating an urban oasis with the building's plaza. Through her choice, Lambert established her role as a leading architectural patron and singlehandedly changed the face of American urban architecture. Building Seagram is a comprehensive personal and scholarly history of a major building and its architectural, cultural, and urban legacies. Lambert makes use of previously unpublished personal archives, company correspondence, and photographs to tell an insider's view of the debates, resolutions, and unknown dramas of the building's construction, as well as its crucial role in the history of modern art and architectural culture.
Skyscrapers --- Modernism (Art) --- Art, Modernist --- Modern art --- Modernism in art --- Modernist art --- Aesthetic movement (Art) --- Art, Modern --- High-rise buildings --- Architecture --- Building, Iron and steel --- Office buildings --- Tall buildings --- Design and construction. --- Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, --- Johnson, Philip, --- Bronfman, Samuel, --- Lambert, Phyllis. --- בראנפמאן, ס. --- Johnson, Philip Cortelyou, --- Mies, Ludwig, --- Mis van der Roė, Li︠u︡dvig, --- Rohe, Ludwig Mies van der, --- Rohe, Mies van der, --- Van der Rohe, Ludwig Mies, --- Misi Fan De Luo, --- Seagram Building (New York, N.Y.) --- New York (N.Y.) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Seagram Building (New York, N.Y.). --- Bronfman, Phyllis --- Design and construction --- Architectuur; hoogbouw --- Architectuur ; Verenigde Staten ; New York ; 20ste eeuw --- Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig 1886-1969 (°Aken, Duitsland) --- Seagram Building, New York --- Johnson, Philip 1906-2005 (°Cleveland, Ohio, Verenigde Staten) --- 72.07 --- Architecten. Stedenbouwkundigen A - Z
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Dissects the construction ecology, material geographies, and world-systems of a most modern of modern architectures: the Seagram Building. In doing so, it aims to describe how humans and nature interact with the thin crust of the planet through architecture. In particular, the immense material, energy and labor involved in building require a fresh interpretation that better situates the ecological and social potential of design. The enhancement of a particular building should be inextricable from the enhancement of its world-system and construction ecology. A beautiful building engendered through the vulgarity of uneven exchanges and processes of underdevelopment is no longer a tenable conceit in such a framework. Unless architects begin to describe buildings as terrestrial events and artifacts, architects will to our collective and professional peril continue to operate outside the key environmental dynamics and key political processes of this century.
Architecture --- Environmental aspects --- Seagram Building (New York, N.Y.) --- 72.504 --- 72.036 <73> --- 72.039 --- 72.039 Hedendaagse architectuur. Bouwkunst sinds 1960 --- Hedendaagse architectuur. Bouwkunst sinds 1960 --- 72.036 <73> Moderne bouwkunst. Architectuur van de 20e eeuw--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Moderne bouwkunst. Architectuur van de 20e eeuw--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- 72.504 Architecture and the environment. Sustainable architecture --- Architecture and the environment. Sustainable architecture --- Aspect environnemental --- New York (N.Y.) --- Seagram Building --- Conception et construction. --- Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, --- Seagram Building (New York, N.Y.) --- Design and construction --- Tour --- Gratte-ciel --- Analyse architecturale --- Mies Van Der Rohe, Ludwig, --- 72.07 --- 72.02 --- 72(747) --- 72:574 --- 728.22 --- 72.023 --- 69.03 --- Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig 1886-1969 (°Aken, Duitsland) --- Johnson, Philip 1906-2005 (°Cleveland, Ohio, Verenigde Staten) --- Architecten. Stedenbouwkundigen A - Z --- Architectuur ; techniek, werkmethoden, behoud (werkproces) --- Architectuur ; Verenigde Staten ; New York --- Architectuur en ecologie --- Woningbouw ; flatgebouwen, appartementen, hoogbouw, wolkenkrabbers --- Architectuur ; beschikbare materialen --- Bouwwezen ; afmeting, duurzaamheid, plaats en vorm van gebouwen --- Environmental aspects. --- Seagram Building (New York, N.Y.). --- Architecture - Environmental aspects --- Mies Van Der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969
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