Skyscraper (Cruickshank Dan)(Pevná vazba)

The story of the first great skyscraper, and the transformation of the modern city. Chicago's beautiful Reliance Building, sixteen storeys tall, was designed in 1890 by John Root and completed in 1895 by Charles B. Atwood. In its construction – metal frame, large areas of plate glass, fire-proof brick and terracotta cladding – it pioneers all the key elements of twentieth-century high-rise architecture, and many of the tenets of Modernism. Cruickshank reflects on the extraordinary architectural, artistic and engineering world of the 1890s and its great figures such as Daniel H. Burnham, Skyscraper - Dan Cruickshank od authora Dan Cruickshank a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus.cz
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