• critical theory
  • cloth boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white
  • 22 x 26.5 cm.
  • 307 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0070577609

Unbuilt America : Forgotten Architecture in the United States from Thomas Jefferson to the Space Age

Alison Sky, Michelle Stone, George R. Collins

description

"Unbuilt America records over 200 years of audacious, curious, revolutionary, utopian, radical, and visionary ideas in the combined fields of architecture and the environmental arts. It is a book about ideas. A book about optimism, idiosyncrasy, and courage. It contains projects that were designed to be realized but never were; possible to realize but thwarted by circumstance; partially realized but arrested or changed beyond recognition; and projects that were purely theoretical and never intended to be realized. Included among the more than 300 conceptually significant works are unbuilt proposals by both famous and virtually unknown designers. There is Thomas Jefferson's Presidential Palace and his Observatory Towers of 1770; there is an underwater restaurant by Norman Bel Geddes; Julia Morgan's opulent "Wyntoon" for William Randolph Hearts, incorporating an entire Castilian monastery imported from Spain during the 1930s; the 1976 proposal by physicist Gerard O'Neill for the first community in outer space; and a diversity of compelling contributions from such well-known artists and architects as Philip Johnson, Louis Kahn, Kubckminster Fuller, H.H. Richardson, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Paolo Soleri, Bruce Goff, Christo, Isamu Noguchi, and Claes Oldenburg." -- from interior flaps. Text by Alison Sky and Michelle R. Stone, with an introduction by George R. Collins. Includes selected bibliography and index. Printed in black-and-white.

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