The Skyward Trend of Thought: The Metaphysics of the American Skyscraper by Thomas A.P.Van Leeuwen

Main page

Editions

The Skyward Trend of Thought: The Metaphysics of the American Skyscraper

by Thomas A.P.Van Leeuwen

Members	Reviews	Popularity	Average rating	Conversations
15	None	357,064	(4)	None

Add to your library

Add to wishlist

all members

▾Members

Recently added by

pranogajec, sherman.clarke, potentcocktail, private library, bookety, nonRIVAL, a4architecture, DanielVieyra

numbers

show all

▾Tags

▾Will you like it?

won't like will probably not like will probably like will like will love

▾Member reviews

No reviews

▾Published reviews

no reviews | add a review

view history

▾Common Knowledge

You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.

For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.

Series (with order)

Canonical Title

Original publication date

People/Characters

Important places

Important events

Related movies

Awards and honors

Epigraph

Dedication

First words

Quotations

Last words

Disambiguation notice

Publisher's editors

Blurbers

▾References

References to this work on external resources.

Wikipedia in English

None

▾LibraryThing members' description

Book description

▾Book descriptions

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0262720167, Paperback)

Is the skyscraper really just a manifestation of America's pragmatic values? Thomas van Leeuwen rejects the functionalist view of skyscraper production put forth by Sigfried Giedion, Nikolaus Pevsner, and others, and instead sets up a very different argument - one that resurrects the powerful aesthetic and ideological values of the mythical skyscraper.

Thomas A.P. van Leeuwen is Professor of Architectural History at the University of Leyden.

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:11 -0400)

▾Open Shelves Classification

The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details.