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(4.39) | None | From fairy-tale castles to extraordinary buildings designed by the world's most distinguished architects, The Walt Disney Company has set new standards for the imaginative use of popular imagery in architecture. The company's enormously influential architectural philosophy, first expressed more than fifty years ago at Disneyland, draws on characters and settings from the world's most compelling legends and stories, especially Disney's own remarkable animated films.
Meanwhile, over the past decade, Michael Eisner, the present chairman of the company, commissioned leading architects such as Robert A.M. Stern, Michael Graves, Robert Venturi, Arata Isozaki, Frank Gehry, Aldo Rossi, and Arquitectonica to execute important buildings for Disney, absorbing into their own styles some of the lessons of the Disney tradition. The result, says author Beth Dunlop, is "architecture with a plot," a new approach to designing buildings. In the.
Early 1950s, Walt Disney turned from the two dimensions of film to the three dimensions of architecture as a medium to express his vision. Working with animators and architects, he created such familiar icons for the Disney theme parks as the castles, Main Street, and the "lands" that comprise the Magic Kingdoms. The theme parks have expanded enormously under the guidance of Michael Eisner to become some of the world's most popular tourist destinations. Eisner also.
Embarked on an ambitious building program outside the theme parks and became, in the process, one of the world's significant patrons of contemporary architecture on a grand scale.… (more) |
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The very name "Disney" is so packed with opprobrium for old-line architectural modernists that it took a certain amount of courage for Beth Dunlop to agree to write this book. | |
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▾References References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in English (5)▾Book descriptions From fairy-tale castles to extraordinary buildings designed by the world's most distinguished architects, The Walt Disney Company has set new standards for the imaginative use of popular imagery in architecture. The company's enormously influential architectural philosophy, first expressed more than fifty years ago at Disneyland, draws on characters and settings from the world's most compelling legends and stories, especially Disney's own remarkable animated films.
Meanwhile, over the past decade, Michael Eisner, the present chairman of the company, commissioned leading architects such as Robert A.M. Stern, Michael Graves, Robert Venturi, Arata Isozaki, Frank Gehry, Aldo Rossi, and Arquitectonica to execute important buildings for Disney, absorbing into their own styles some of the lessons of the Disney tradition. The result, says author Beth Dunlop, is "architecture with a plot," a new approach to designing buildings. In the.
Early 1950s, Walt Disney turned from the two dimensions of film to the three dimensions of architecture as a medium to express his vision. Working with animators and architects, he created such familiar icons for the Disney theme parks as the castles, Main Street, and the "lands" that comprise the Magic Kingdoms. The theme parks have expanded enormously under the guidance of Michael Eisner to become some of the world's most popular tourist destinations. Eisner also.
Embarked on an ambitious building program outside the theme parks and became, in the process, one of the world's significant patrons of contemporary architecture on a grand scale. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Disney is not just for kids. Over the past 10 years, the Walt Disney Company's chief executive, Michael Eisner, has commissioned some of the most renowned contemporary architects--Robert Venturi, Robert A. M. Stern, Arata Isozaki, Frank Gehry, Aldo Rossi, and Michael Graves among them--to design important buildings for the company. In the process, Disney has set new standards for postmodern architecture and has become one of its leading patrons anywhere in the world. The resulting projects, which include quirky, fantastic theme parks, hotels, resorts, movie studios, and offices, are evidence of how Disney's long-standing use of popular, often surreal, imagery and iconography has been absorbed into the architects' styles. This stunning volume offers original architectural drawings and superb color photographs of the projects alongside an expertly written text that incorporates extensive interviews with the architects and executives involved. | |
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