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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Looking Beyond the Icons: Midcentury Architecture, Landscape, and Urbanism

Looking Beyond the Icons: Midcentury Architecture, Landscape, and Urbanism

Longstreth, Richard

Paperback

General ArchitectureArchitecture History

ISBN10: 0813936446
ISBN13: 9780813936444
Publisher: Univ Of Virginia Pr
Published: Aug 15 2016
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.90
Language: English

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 and variety of mid-twentieth-century U.S. architecture, landscape, and urbanism, and provides a detailed analysis of both the imperatives for and the challenges involved in preserving this legacy.

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