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How to Read Skyscrapers Edward Denison

How to Read Skyscrapers By Edward Denison

How to Read Skyscrapers by Edward Denison


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How To Read Skyscrapers offers a deep and rich understanding of the skyscraper by providing a comprehensive account of this unique and captivating building-type, from its origins in myth and legend to its future potential in satisfying humankinds needs and aspirations.

How to Read Skyscrapers Summary

How to Read Skyscrapers: A crash course in high-rise architecture by Edward Denison

Throughout history, the story of the skyscraper has been defined by our desire for ascendancepolitically, militarily, economically, religiously, culturally, and, of course, physically. These spectacular superstructures epitomise more than architectural aspiration, they excite the imagination and inspire awe. The scope of the book is deliberately broad with a thematic first section and a geographical second section. Conceptual chapters, introduce the origins of our desire to build high and explore the skyscrapers role in fuelling our imaginations through different modes of cultural expression. How To Read Skyscrapers offers a deep and rich understanding of the skyscraper by providing a comprehensive account of this unique and captivating building-type, from its origins in myth and legend to its future potential in satisfying humankinds needs and aspirations.

About Edward Denison

Edward Denison is an award-winning design and planning consultant, with an expertise in packaging and sustainable design. He lives in London, UK.

Dr Nick Beech an architectural historian with a particular interest in cultures of construction and building. Nick has taught the history, theory and cultural context of architecture at a number of architectural schools in London and Oxford.

He is a Lecturer at The Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) and an independent consultant, writer and photographer specialising in global histories of architecture and the built environment. His work forvarious international organisations in places as diverse as Africa, China and Europe regularly features in print, electronic and broadcast media internationally. In 2016 he won the RIBA Presidents Medal for Research forAsmara - Africas Modernist City and was very instrumental in the Eritrean capital being included on the World Heritage list in August 2017. Edward specialises in consulting on Urban Development and Cultural Heritage,Architectural Photography, Professional Research, Writing for academic, specialist and public readerships, and Sustainable Design.

Nicks research contends withtwo broad, open questions of architectural and urban historywhat industrial changes occurred in building and architectural practices in mid-twentieth century Britain? How might those specific processes of changeilluminate transformations in wider cultural and political dimensions? He has considered these questions in relation to the building industry, architectural profession, and wider cultural and political institutions, of mid-twentieth century London in particular. Nick continues to collaborate with a diverse range and number of scholars, public intellectuals, artists and architects in pursuit of this research.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Section 1

1. Building High
a) Mythic
b) Monumental
c) Military
d) Religious
e) Instrumental

2. Birth of the Skyscraper
a) New Materials
b) New Technologies
c) New Services
d) New Urban Forms
e) Motives and Desires

3. The American Skyscraper
a) Chicago Commercial
b) New York Art Deco
c) Corporate
d) Post-modern

4. Skyscrapers Around the World
a) European
b) Indian
c) Chinese
d) Japanese
e) South American
f) African

Section 2
5. Strange Skyscrapers

a) 30 St Mary Axe (London)
b) Al Bahr Towers (Abu Dhabi)
c) CCTV (Beijing)
d) Turning Torso (Malmo)
e) Marina Bay Sands (Singapore)
f) Ryugyong Hotel (North Korea)
g) Elephant Building (Thailand)
h) The Big Bend (USA)
6. Mega Skyscraper
a) Bank of China (HK)
b) Petronas Towers (Malaysia)
c) Burj Khalifa (Dubai)
d) Shanghai Tower (China)
e) Taipei 101 (Taiwan)
f) Tokyo mile-high (Japan),
g) Jeddah Tower (Saudi Arabia)
h) One World Trade Centre (USA)
i) World One (India)
j) Al Noor (Morocco))

7. Skyscrapers of the Imagination
a) Paper Projects (Architecture)
b) Literature
c) Art
d) Music
e) Comics
f) Film

Glossary
Resources
Index
Acknowledgments




Additional information

GOR009836214
9781782406495
1782406492
How to Read Skyscrapers: A crash course in high-rise architecture by Edward Denison
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Quarto Publishing PLC
2019-05-30
256
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