Sidewalk Critic: Lewis Mumford's Writings on New YorkPrinceton Architectural Press, 1998 - 279 pages Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) is best known for his Sky Line column in the New Yorker where he served as architecture critic for over 30 years. A man of letters and part of Manhattan's intellectual elite, Mumford wrote more than 20 books over 6 decades, bridging the seemingly disparate disciplines of architecture, technology, literary criticism, biography, sociology and philosophy. |
Table des matières
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION | 9 |
PROLOGUE | 31 |
TaRaRaBoomDeAy | 32 |
Tennis Quadratic Equations and Love | 40 |
193132 | 53 |
Reflections on Radio City | 54 |
Bridges and Buildings | 60 |
The Modern Hospital | 63 |
Modernity and Commerce | 164 |
Parks and Playgrounds New Buildings for | 168 |
The City of the Future | 173 |
Buildings and Books | 177 |
The Worlds Fair | 181 |
Bridges and Beaches | 185 |
193738 | 191 |
Gardens and Glass | 192 |
From the Palace of the Popes The Cantilevered Front Return to Sobriety | 66 |
Unconscious Architecture | 69 |
Organic Architecture | 71 |
A Survivor of the Brown Decades De Mortuis What Might Have Been | 74 |
Medals and Mentions | 77 |
On Making a Museum 193233 PostBoom Tower The Modern Restaurant | 80 |
Gas Tanks and Towers The New Architect | 84 |
The Laundry Takes to Architecture | 88 |
The Rockefeller Collection | 90 |
Two Theatres | 92 |
The Architects Show Their Wares | 92 |
Early Americans | 97 |
193334 | 103 |
The New York Lunchroom | 110 |
Concerning Foley Square | 118 |
Meditations on a | 124 |
Mr Wrights City | 130 |
A Park with a View | 138 |
Fifth Avenues New Museum | 146 |
Fiftieth Anniversary | 154 |
193637 | 163 |
New Façades | 197 |
For the Common Good | 202 |
At Home Indoors and | 206 |
The New Order | 209 |
Pax in Urbe | 213 |
193839 | 217 |
Bauhaus Two Restaurants and a Theatre | 218 |
Westward | 222 |
The American Tradition | 226 |
Growing Pains The New Museum | 230 |
West Is East | 235 |
Genuine Bootleg | 242 |
193940 | 249 |
Modern Housing from A to X | 250 |
Millions for Mausoleums | 254 |
Versailles for the Millions | 258 |
The Dead Past and the Dead Present | 262 |
Rockefeller Center Revisited | 266 |
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