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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Thomas, George E. (1944-....)
Titre(s) : First modern [Texte imprimé] : Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts / George E. Thomas
Publication : Philadelphia : Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, copyright 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (127 p.) : ill., plans ; 28 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr.
From the Crystal Palace to the skyscraper and on to the functional aesthetic of the
German Bauhaus, the development of modern architecture required less than seven decades.
Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts warrants a central place in this
narrative. Unlike the earlier buildings that made fragmentary and disconnected use
of the latest industrial materials and systems, the Academy project combined the critical
elements of modern logistical planning-steel and iron construction and modern plumbing,
heating, and ventilation systems designed to serve a workplace and a school-with the
architectural expression of the age. Moreover, rather than seeking to reify the past,
architects Furness & Hewitt had chosen the most dynamic of modern forces, the machine,
as both inspiration and ornament. Instead of being based on the rearview mirror, the
new Academy, opened in 1876, looked to the present and the future. This created a
civic museum and school building whose expressive style referenced both its updated
purpose and a novel attitude toward history. The Academy's machine for making art
can rightly be termed the first modern building
Sujet(s) : Furness, Frank (1839-1912)
Hewitt, George Watson (1841-1916)
Pennsylvania academy of the fine arts -- Constructions
Indice(s) Dewey :
720.973 09034 (23e éd.) = Architecture - États-Unis - 1800-1899
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-0-943836-43-0 (rel.). - ISBN 0943836433
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb471734199
Notice n° :
FRBNF47173419
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Foreword / / David R. Brigham ; ; First modern: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts / / George E. Thomas. ; Ahead of the curve ; ; Cause and effect ; ; Architecture
in the city of applied science ; ; The changing board: businessmen, manufacturing
interests, and a "new departure" ; ; The selected site ; ; The competition ; ; The
choices ; ; Creative friction ; ; "Comparatively unsolved difficulties" ; ; Antecedents
; ; The new client and the new theory of design ; ; Building the Academy: the panic
of 1873 ; ; Learning from the Academy ; ; Reception ; ; History as myth, myth as history
; ; First Modern ; ; Today ; ; Appendix.. The subscription list -- ; Chronology /
/ Isaac Kornblatt-Stier.
