Terror and wonder : architecture in a tumultuous age. / Blair Kamin. txt

Por:

Kamin, Blair

Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2011Descripción: xxiv, 291 p. ill. ; 24 cmTipo de contenido:

text

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unmediaded

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9780226423111
0226423115

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724.7 23

Clasificación LoC:

NA712.7 K36 2010

Contenidos:

1 The Urban Drama -- DISASTER -- RAISING UP A FALLEN SKY : The Best Way to Fill the Chilling Void in the Lower Manhattan Skyline Is with a Great New Urban Center, Not a Reproduction of the Destroyed Twin Towers -- DON'T ABANDON NEW ORLEANS : The Big Easy, an American Masterpiece, Deserves to Be Saved; Its Rebuilding Should Stress Substance over Show -- SECURITY -- LAND OF THE SORT-OF FREE : In a Nervous City, Places like the Federal Plaza Run Scared, While the Daley Plaza Hangs Tough -- FORT WASHINGTON : From the Heartland to the Capital, Federal Buildings Put on the Armor of a Nation under Siege -- HUBS OF FRUSTRATION: Airports-A Symbol of Our Freedom of Movement-Have Become Dehumanizing -- THE PROMISE AND PERILS OF REBUILDING -- A BRILLIANT TIGHTROPE WALK AT GROUND ZERO : One Plan for the World Trade Center Site Rises above the Rest -- TOWER OF BANAL : Latest Freedom Tower Design Erases Original Vision of Remembrance and Renewal -- RECLAIMING THE PUBLIC REALM -- A PEOPLE'S PARK FOR THE FUTURE : Why Millennium Park Has Instantly-and Interactively-Established Itself as Chicago's New Town Square -- THE MILLENNIUM PARK EFFECT : It Has Emerged as a Sparkling Example of How Big Cities Can Get Big Things Done -- 2 The Building Boom -- WRETCHED EXCESS -- MONUMENTS TO MEDIOCRITY : The Demands of Business Trump the Art of Architecture in a Surge of High-Rise Residential Construction -- ONCE GRAND, NOW BLAND : The Boom in Branch Banks Is Shortchanging the Character of Neighborhoods -- A MICKEY D'S ON STEROIDS : When Supersize Isn't Necessarily Better -- A GALLERY OF ROGUES : For Every Gem Produced by the Long-Running Building Boom, There Are Even More Clunkers -- GEMS AMID THE ROUGH -- A SPARKLING NEW HIGH-RISE : The Contemporaine, by Ralph Johnson, Heralds the Revival of Modernism -- PLEASANT DREAMS : Lighter-Than-Air Serta Headquarters Elevates the Ordinary -- WAVES OF CREATIVITY : The Aqua Tower, by Rising Star Jeanne Gang, Is One of Chicago's Boldest and Best New Skyscrapers -- DOES SUPERTALL MEAN SUPERB? -- THE DONALD'S DUD : Trump's Skyscraper, Shortened by the Post-9/11 Fear of Heights, Reaches Only for Mediocrity -- SCALING AESTHETIC HEIGHTS : The Fordham Spire Adapts to Our World in a Stunning New Way -- LET'S TWIST AGAIN : Third Time's the Charm for Chicago Spire-or Is It? -- HOW TO BUILD TODAY'S SUPERTALLS : Elegance, Not Machismo, Is behind Chicago's Unprecedented Reach for the Sky -- A SKYSCRAPER OF MANY FACES : In Trump's Context-Driven Chicago Skyscraper, Beauty Is in the Eye-and the Vantage Point-of the Beholder -- OVER THE TOP: The Burj Dubai, the New World's Tallest Building, Shows That Nothing Succeeds Like Excess -- 3 The Age of Icons -- CATHEDRALS OF CULTURE -- WINGED VICTORY : Santiago Calatrava Marries Sculpture and Structure, and Molds a New Identity for the Milwaukee Art Museum -- A MUSICAL ARK FOR LOS ANGELES : Frank Gehry's Spectacular Disney Hall Draws Energy from the City's Chaos and Steers It toward a New Vision of Community -- ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGHS AND LOWS : Daniel Libeskind's Denver Art Museum Addition Is a Striking Urban Presence but Doesn't Soar as a Showcase -- BLADES OF GLASS : The New Spertus Institute and Its Gemlike Wall Form a Welcome Counterpoint to Chicago's Michigan Avenue Historic District -- FROM SPECTACULAR TO SUBTLE -- A BRIGHTER IDEA : Steven Holl's Bloch Building at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City Redefines the Museum Addition -- TEMPLE OF LIGHT : Much More Than a Container for Art, Renzo Piano's Refined Modern Wing Opens to Nature and the City -- A SIDEWALK THROUGH THE SKY : With Nautical Flourish, the Nichols Bridgeway Connects the Modern Wing of the Art Institute to Millennium Park -- BIG STARS ON CAMPUS -- THE NEW SCHOOL OF COLLEGE DESIGN : Can Sexy, Signature Buildings Successfully Fuse Form and Function? -- TRIUMPHANT HOMECOMING : Helmut Jahn Designs an Illinois Institute of Technology Dorm That Looks Elegantly at Home -- STANDING OUT WHILE FITTING IN : Thom Mayne's Campus Recreation Center at the University of Cincinnati Is the Latest Piece of an Exemplary Puzzle -- 4 The Changing Faces of Preservation and Conservation -- NEW CHALLENGES FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION -- THE DANGER OF BECOMING SKIN-DEEP : Chicago Historic Buildings Become Shells as New Rules of Preservation Are Letting City's History Slip Away -- HEALING PROCESS : It's Unclear Whether Cook County Hospital Can or Should Be Saved, but There Hasn't Been a Full Airing of the Question -- WHY LOSING SOLDIER FIELD'S LANDMARK STATUS MATTERS : Uncle Sam Draws a Line, Saving Avant-Garde Architecture from Its Worst Excesses -- LOVE IT? HATE IT? OR BOTH? : An Architecture Critic Revisits the Building He Despised as a Student and Has a Revelation -- THIS MIES BUILDING AT IIT CAN GO : Squat Brick Structure Isn't the Architect's Best Work, and the Metra Expansion Merits Its Razing -- HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND GREEN ARCHITECTURE : Friends or Foes? -- THE BLOOMING OF GREEN ARCHITECTURE -- CHICAGO, MY KIND OF GREEN : The Windy City Presents a Snapshot of the Sustainability Movement's Strengths and Shortcomings -- STARTING FROM "NET ZERO" : First-of-Its-Kind Home in Chicago Will Produce as Much Energy as It Uses -- TEMPLE OF GREEN : In the Grand Rapids Art Museum, a Measured Approach to Design Reveals That Elegance and Environmentalism Are Not Incompatible -- 5 A New Era and New Challenges -- REIMAGINING REGIONS AND HOUSING -- GOING FORWARD : Planning for Chicago's Future Requires Burnham-Style Vision-and a Big Pair of Green-Tinted Glasses -- SHORTSIGHTED POLEMICS : The Ideological Catfights over Housing Threaten to Marginalize All of Architecture -- CHA POLISHES ITS ROUGH EDGES : Architect Dresses up the Dearborn Homes, Georgian Style, and Upgrades Living Spaces Inside -- BRICK BY BRICK : Born as a Horse Stable, the Brick Weave House Provides the Perfect Home for a Pair of Urbanite Gearheads -- THE BLESSINGS AND BURDENS OF INFRASTRUCTURE -- A GRANDER CANYON : The Rebuilt Wacker Drive Has Emerged Not Only Fixed, but Finer -- CHICAGO'S SECOND WATERFRONT : A New Stretch of River Walk Furthers the Dream of Turning a Once-Harsh Industrial Zone into a Prime Public Space -- NEW RANDOLPH STATION WORKS WITHIN ITS LIMITS : Renovated Transit Hub a Bright Spot in Daily Commute -- THE WAY WE MOVE-AND LIVE : America's Infrastructure Crisis Arrives on Chicago's Doorstep -- HIGH HOPES AND SOBERING REALITIES -- GOOD-BYE, ICONS; HELLO, INFRASTRUCTURE : Obama Inaugurates a New Era of Architecture -- BACK TO BASICS : Obama's Infrastructure Plan Won't Match the Great New Deal Public Works, but It Moves America in the Right Direction -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration Credits -- Index --

Resumen: For nearly twenty years now, Blair Kamin of the Chicago Tribune has explored how architecture captures our imagination and engages our deepest emotions. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for criticism and writer of the widely read Cityscapes blog, Kamin treats his subjects not only as works of art but also as symbols of the cultural and political forces that inspire them. Terror and Wonder gathers the best of Kamin's writings from the past decade along with new reflections on an era framed by the destruction of the World Trade Center and the opening of the world's tallest skyscraper. Assessing ordinary commercial structures as well as head-turning designs by some of the world's leading architects, Kamin paints a sweeping but finely textured portrait of a tumultuous age torn between the conflicting mandates of architectural spectacle and sustainability. For Kamin, the story of our built environment over the past ten years is, in tangible ways, the story of the decade itself. Terror and Wonder considers how architecture has been central to the main events and crosscurrents in American life since 2001: the devastating and debilitating consequences of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina; the real estate boom and bust; the use of over-the-top cultural designs as engines of civic renewal; new challenges in saving old buildings; the unlikely rise of energy-saving, green architecture; and growing concern over our nation's crumbling infrastructure.

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For more than twenty years now, Blair Kamin of the Chicago Tribune has explored how architecture captures our imagination and engages our deepest emotions. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for criticism, Kamin treats his subjects not only as works of art but also as symbols of the cultural and political forces that inspire them. Terror and Wonder gathers the best of Kamin's writings from the past decade along with new reflections on an era framed by the destruction of the World Trade Center and the opening of the world's tallest skyscraper.

Assessing ordinary commercial structures as well as head-turning designs by some of the world's leading architects, Kamin paints a sweeping but finely textured portrait of a tumultuous age torn between the conflicting mandates of architectural spectacle and sustainability. For Kamin, the story of our built environment over the past ten years is, in tangible ways, the story of the decade itself. Terror and Wonder considers how architecture has been central to the main events and crosscurrents in American life since 2001: the devastating and debilitating consequences of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina; the real estate boom and bust; the use of over-the-top cultural designs as engines of civic renewal; new challenges in saving old buildings; the unlikely rise of energy-saving, green architecture; and growing concern over our nation's crumbling infrastructure.

A prominent cast of players--including Santiago Calatrava, Frank Gehry, Helmut Jahn, Daniel Libeskind, Barack Obama, Renzo Piano, and Donald Trump--fills the pages of this eye-opening look at the astounding and extraordinary ways that architecture mirrors our values--and shapes our everyday lives.

Include index

1 The Urban Drama --
DISASTER --
RAISING UP A FALLEN SKY : The Best Way to Fill the Chilling Void in the Lower Manhattan Skyline Is with a Great New Urban Center, Not a Reproduction of the Destroyed Twin Towers --
DON'T ABANDON NEW ORLEANS : The Big Easy, an American Masterpiece, Deserves to Be Saved; Its Rebuilding Should Stress Substance over Show --
SECURITY --
LAND OF THE SORT-OF FREE : In a Nervous City, Places like the Federal Plaza Run Scared, While the Daley Plaza Hangs Tough --
FORT WASHINGTON : From the Heartland to the Capital, Federal Buildings Put on the Armor of a Nation under Siege --
HUBS OF FRUSTRATION: Airports-A Symbol of Our Freedom of Movement-Have Become Dehumanizing --
THE PROMISE AND PERILS OF REBUILDING --
A BRILLIANT TIGHTROPE WALK AT GROUND ZERO : One Plan for the World Trade Center Site Rises above the Rest --
TOWER OF BANAL : Latest Freedom Tower Design Erases Original Vision of Remembrance and Renewal --
RECLAIMING THE PUBLIC REALM --
A PEOPLE'S PARK FOR THE FUTURE : Why Millennium Park Has Instantly-and Interactively-Established Itself as Chicago's New Town Square --
THE MILLENNIUM PARK EFFECT : It Has Emerged as a Sparkling Example of How Big Cities Can Get Big Things Done --
2 The Building Boom --
WRETCHED EXCESS --
MONUMENTS TO MEDIOCRITY : The Demands of Business Trump the Art of Architecture in a Surge of High-Rise Residential Construction --
ONCE GRAND, NOW BLAND : The Boom in Branch Banks Is Shortchanging the Character of Neighborhoods --
A MICKEY D'S ON STEROIDS : When Supersize Isn't Necessarily Better --
A GALLERY OF ROGUES : For Every Gem Produced by the Long-Running Building Boom, There Are Even More Clunkers --
GEMS AMID THE ROUGH --
A SPARKLING NEW HIGH-RISE : The Contemporaine, by Ralph Johnson, Heralds the Revival of Modernism --
PLEASANT DREAMS : Lighter-Than-Air Serta Headquarters Elevates the Ordinary --
WAVES OF CREATIVITY : The Aqua Tower, by Rising Star Jeanne Gang, Is One of Chicago's Boldest and Best New Skyscrapers --
DOES SUPERTALL MEAN SUPERB? --
THE DONALD'S DUD : Trump's Skyscraper, Shortened by the Post-9/11 Fear of Heights, Reaches Only for Mediocrity --
SCALING AESTHETIC HEIGHTS : The Fordham Spire Adapts to Our World in a Stunning New Way --
LET'S TWIST AGAIN : Third Time's the Charm for Chicago Spire-or Is It? --
HOW TO BUILD TODAY'S SUPERTALLS : Elegance, Not Machismo, Is behind Chicago's Unprecedented Reach for the Sky --
A SKYSCRAPER OF MANY FACES : In Trump's Context-Driven Chicago Skyscraper, Beauty Is in the Eye-and the Vantage Point-of the Beholder --
OVER THE TOP: The Burj Dubai, the New World's Tallest Building, Shows That Nothing Succeeds Like Excess --
3 The Age of Icons --
CATHEDRALS OF CULTURE --
WINGED VICTORY : Santiago Calatrava Marries Sculpture and Structure, and Molds a New Identity for the Milwaukee Art Museum --
A MUSICAL ARK FOR LOS ANGELES : Frank Gehry's Spectacular Disney Hall Draws Energy from the City's Chaos and Steers It toward a New Vision of Community --
ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGHS AND LOWS : Daniel Libeskind's Denver Art Museum Addition Is a Striking Urban Presence but Doesn't Soar as a Showcase --
BLADES OF GLASS : The New Spertus Institute and Its Gemlike Wall Form a Welcome Counterpoint to Chicago's Michigan Avenue Historic District --
FROM SPECTACULAR TO SUBTLE --
A BRIGHTER IDEA : Steven Holl's Bloch Building at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City Redefines the Museum Addition --
TEMPLE OF LIGHT : Much More Than a Container for Art, Renzo Piano's Refined Modern Wing Opens to Nature and the City --
A SIDEWALK THROUGH THE SKY : With Nautical Flourish, the Nichols Bridgeway Connects the Modern Wing of the Art Institute to Millennium Park --
BIG STARS ON CAMPUS --
THE NEW SCHOOL OF COLLEGE DESIGN : Can Sexy, Signature Buildings Successfully Fuse Form and Function? --
TRIUMPHANT HOMECOMING : Helmut Jahn Designs an Illinois Institute of Technology Dorm That Looks Elegantly at Home --
STANDING OUT WHILE FITTING IN : Thom Mayne's Campus Recreation Center at the University of Cincinnati Is the Latest Piece of an Exemplary Puzzle --
4 The Changing Faces of Preservation and Conservation --
NEW CHALLENGES FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION --
THE DANGER OF BECOMING SKIN-DEEP : Chicago Historic Buildings Become Shells as New Rules of Preservation Are Letting City's History Slip Away --
HEALING PROCESS : It's Unclear Whether Cook County Hospital Can or Should Be Saved, but There Hasn't Been a Full Airing of the Question --
WHY LOSING SOLDIER FIELD'S LANDMARK STATUS MATTERS : Uncle Sam Draws a Line, Saving Avant-Garde Architecture from Its Worst Excesses --
LOVE IT? HATE IT? OR BOTH? : An Architecture Critic Revisits the Building He Despised as a Student and Has a Revelation --
THIS MIES BUILDING AT IIT CAN GO : Squat Brick Structure Isn't the Architect's Best Work, and the Metra Expansion Merits Its Razing --
HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND GREEN ARCHITECTURE : Friends or Foes? --
THE BLOOMING OF GREEN ARCHITECTURE --
CHICAGO, MY KIND OF GREEN : The Windy City Presents a Snapshot of the Sustainability Movement's Strengths and Shortcomings --
STARTING FROM "NET ZERO" : First-of-Its-Kind Home in Chicago Will Produce as Much Energy as It Uses --
TEMPLE OF GREEN : In the Grand Rapids Art Museum, a Measured Approach to Design Reveals That Elegance and Environmentalism Are Not Incompatible --
5 A New Era and New Challenges --
REIMAGINING REGIONS AND HOUSING --
GOING FORWARD : Planning for Chicago's Future Requires Burnham-Style Vision-and a Big Pair of Green-Tinted Glasses --
SHORTSIGHTED POLEMICS : The Ideological Catfights over Housing Threaten to Marginalize All of Architecture --
CHA POLISHES ITS ROUGH EDGES : Architect Dresses up the Dearborn Homes, Georgian Style, and Upgrades Living Spaces Inside --
BRICK BY BRICK : Born as a Horse Stable, the Brick Weave House Provides the Perfect Home for a Pair of Urbanite Gearheads --
THE BLESSINGS AND BURDENS OF INFRASTRUCTURE --
A GRANDER CANYON : The Rebuilt Wacker Drive Has Emerged Not Only Fixed, but Finer --
CHICAGO'S SECOND WATERFRONT : A New Stretch of River Walk Furthers the Dream of Turning a Once-Harsh Industrial Zone into a Prime Public Space --
NEW RANDOLPH STATION WORKS WITHIN ITS LIMITS : Renovated Transit Hub a Bright Spot in Daily Commute --
THE WAY WE MOVE-AND LIVE : America's Infrastructure Crisis Arrives on Chicago's Doorstep --
HIGH HOPES AND SOBERING REALITIES --
GOOD-BYE, ICONS; HELLO, INFRASTRUCTURE : Obama Inaugurates a New Era of Architecture --
BACK TO BASICS : Obama's Infrastructure Plan Won't Match the Great New Deal Public Works, but It Moves America in the Right Direction --
Acknowledgments --
Illustration Credits --
Index --

For nearly twenty years now, Blair Kamin of the Chicago Tribune has explored how architecture captures our imagination and engages our deepest emotions. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for criticism and writer of the widely read Cityscapes blog, Kamin treats his subjects not only as works of art but also as symbols of the cultural and political forces that inspire them. Terror and Wonder gathers the best of Kamin's writings from the past decade along with new reflections on an era framed by the destruction of the World Trade Center and the opening of the world's tallest skyscraper. Assessing ordinary commercial structures as well as head-turning designs by some of the world's leading architects, Kamin paints a sweeping but finely textured portrait of a tumultuous age torn between the conflicting mandates of architectural spectacle and sustainability. For Kamin, the story of our built environment over the past ten years is, in tangible ways, the story of the decade itself. Terror and Wonder considers how architecture has been central to the main events and crosscurrents in American life since 2001: the devastating and debilitating consequences of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina; the real estate boom and bust; the use of over-the-top cultural designs as engines of civic renewal; new challenges in saving old buildings; the unlikely rise of energy-saving, green architecture; and growing concern over our nation's crumbling infrastructure.

Reseñas proporcionadas por Syndetics

CHOICE Review

Chicago Tribune architecture critic Kamin bookends his second collection of columns, ten years after Why Architecture Matters: Lessons from Chicago (CH, Mar'02, 39-3785), with the destruction of the World Trade Center and the opening of the world's tallest skyscraper in Dubai. Although the articles dart from one subject to another, motifs of terror and wonder are manifest in discussions of the Twin Towers (three essays), the subsequent lockdown of federal buildings, airport security, New Orleans, and the Obama administration's bold national infrastructure plans. About two-thirds of the articles deal with new buildings in Chicago (Trump Skyscraper, Jeanne Gang's Aqua Tower, Calatrava's Spire) and the city's preservation and redevelopment efforts (Millennium Park, green-city sustainability, mass transit). Art museums are another favorite, including positive reviews of new structures in Chicago, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Denver, and Grand Rapids. Columns generally run from four to six pages and are followed by short postscript updates. Kamin is a keen, trenchant observer of the contemporary urban scene, and his engaging criticism enjoys a welcome second life in this anthology. Unfortunately, reproductions of the original grayed-out newspaper photographs ineffectively illustrate the buildings and seem an afterthought. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-level undergraduates, general readers, and professionals/practitioners. R. T. Clement Northwestern University

Booklist Review

Kamin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune, has constructed an elegant and thought-provoking book out of 51 of his timely yet timeless columns. He begins not with the creation of structures but, rather, with their destruction: the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center towers and Katrina's assault on New Orleans. In the wake of each catastrophe, Kamin examines reactions predictable and counterintuitive. There's the ugly and dampening impact of clumsy security measures on architecture, travel, and public life, and the reckless building boom, which stoked the foreclosure epidemic and a plague of generic, bloated commercial and residential buildings, and left two massive skyscraper projects, the Spire and the Waterview Tower, in limbo in Chicago ( the first city of American architecture ). But he also writes of such buoyant successes as Santiago Calatrava's winged addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum and Jeanne Gang's singular Aqua Tower and celebrates the blooming of green architecture. Crisp and colorful, expert and witty, Kamin's involving essays address the complexities of architecture and how the built world affects every aspect of life.--Seaman, Donna Copyright 2010 Booklist

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Blair Kamin is the architecture critic of the Chicago Tribune . A graduate of Amherst College and the Yale School of Architecture, he holds honorary degrees from Monmouth University and North Central College, where he is an adjunct professor of art. Kamin is the recipient of more than 30 honors, including the Pulitzer Prize for criticism and the George Polk Award. His books include the critically acclaimed Why Architecture Matters: Lessons from Chicago and Tribune Tower: American Landmark .

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