Book Description
From the Publisher Made possible by a series of radical advances in engineering and created to meet pressing economic and psychological needs, skyscrapers came into existence in the second half of the nineteenth century and immediately came to represent the modern city. From the Flatiron in New York to Tomorrow Square in Shanghai, these pages tell the story of the glass and steel giants and their continual technological, conceptual, and stylistic evolution. These extraordinary laboratories of modern life are being raised all around the world to ever-increasing heights. Superb photographs and text written by a renowned architectural expert examine even the most recent experiments and show the reader the variety of skyscraper forms existent in the third millennium.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Made possible by a series of radical advances in engineering and created to meet pressing economic and psychological needs, skyscrapers came into existence in the second half of the nineteenth century and immediately came to represent the modern city. From the Flatiron in New York to Tomorrow Square in Shanghai, these pages tell the story of the glass and steel giants and their continual technological, conceptual, and stylistic evolution. These extraordinary laboratories of modern life are being raised all around the world to ever-increasing heights.

Superb photographs and text written by a renowned architectural expert examine even the most recent experiments and show the reader the variety of skyscraper forms existent in the third millennium.

About the Author:

Born in 1942, Antonino Terranova is a professor of Architectural Composition at La Sapienza University in Rome where he directs the Department of Architecture and City Analysis. He is a member of the editorial staff of the magazine Rassegna di Architettura. He writes for various international magazines and is the author of several books, including The Essentials of Architectural Composition, Cities, and Plans: From City Centers to Metropolitan Landscapes and Metropolitan Monsters He is also a member of the Management Council of the National Association for Historic and Artistic City Centers and of the Building Advisory Council for the Commune of Rome. Antonino Terranova also designed Rome's city park within the ancient city walls around the capital's city center.

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