Manhattan atmospheres : architecture, the interior environment, and urban crisis. / David Gissen. txt
Editor: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2014Descripción: viii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmTipo de contenido:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780816680702
- 0816680701
- 9780816680719
- 081668071X
- Interior architecture -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
- Architecture and society -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- 23 720.9747/109041
- NA2850 G57 2014
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During Manhattan's crisis years between the 1960s and early 1980s, the city's great park networks, sanitarian projects of light, air, and water, and its monumental public works were falling apart. Images of flooded streets, blackened air, collapsed highways, and burning buildings characterize our understanding of the city's landscape throughout this period. At the same time, architects reimagined interior spaces as a response to these urban disasters. David Gissen reveals that a new chapter in New York's environmental history was unfolding inside the city's gleaming late-modern architecture.
In Manhattan Atmospheres , Gissen uncovers an alternative environmental history by examining the megastructural apartments, verdant corporate atria, enormous trading rooms, and mammoth museum galleries that were built in this era. These environments were integral to New York City's restructuring and also some of the most politicized fabrications of nature found in the city. Behind the tinted and mirrored glass, the vaporous cooled and warmed atmospheres offered protection from pollution, stewarded urban greenery, and helped preserve precious cultural artifacts. But, entangled with efforts to gentrify neighborhoods, the new settings served as a stage for demographic transformations and shifts in cultural concentration and enriched the overall corporatization of the city.
Caught in politicized debates, these spaces were far from simple solutions to the city's dilemmas. Making a significant contribution to postwar architectural history, critical geography, and urban studies, Gissen deftly demonstrates how these sealed environments were not closed off conceptually from the surrounding city but instead were key sites of environmental production and, in turn, a new type of socionatural form.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : From urban nature to the maintenance environment --
Protection: megastructures and environmental gentrification --
Growth: corporate atriums and the cultivation of urban nature --
Preservation: territories of culture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art --
Exchange: the communication environments of finance --
Epilogue : Reimagining maintenance environments. --
" During Manhattan's crisis years between the 1960s and early 1980s, the city's great park networks, sanitarian projects of light, air, and water, and its monumental public works were falling apart. Images of flooded streets, blackened air, collapsed highways, and burning buildings characterize our understanding of the city's landscape throughout this period. At the same time, architects reimagined interior spaces as a response to these urban disasters. David Gissen reveals that a new chapter in New York's environmental history was unfolding inside the city's gleaming late-modern architecture. In Manhattan Atmospheres, Gissen uncovers an alternative environmental history by examining the megastructural apartments, verdant corporate atria, enormous trading rooms, and mammoth museum galleries that were built in this era. These environments were integral to New York City's restructuring and also some of the most politicized fabrications of nature found in the city. Behind the tinted and mirrored glass, the vaporous cooled and warmed atmospheres offered protection from pollution, stewarded urban greenery, and helped preserve precious cultural artifacts. But, entangled with efforts to gentrify neighborhoods, the new settings served as a stage for demographic transformations and shifts in cultural concentration and enriched the overall corporatization of the city. Caught in politicized debates, these spaces were far from simple solutions to the city's dilemmas. Making a significant contribution to postwar architectural history, critical geography, and urban studies, Gissen deftly demonstrates how these sealed environments were not closed off conceptually from the surrounding city but instead were key sites of environmental production and, in turn, a new type of socionatural form. "--
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Gissen (California College of the Arts) joins Max Page (The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1904, CH, Dec'00, 38-2344) and Matthew Gandy (Concrete and Clay, CH, Dec'02, 40-2375) in using the nation's foremost metropolis as a springboard for exploring new realms in the 20th-century history of the built environment. Gissen's temporal focus is the recent past--from the 1960s to the 1980s, when New York was in fiscal turmoil and viewed by many as a city in decline. He examines four sites, well-known to New Yorkers and many others as well, from a fresh perspective, showing how, with varying degrees of success, those involved with the sites sought to create a new, interior-oriented environment as an antidote to the city's grim conditions. The four are an unlikely group: the Washington Bridge Apartments, just east of the George Washington Bridge; the atrium of the Ford Foundation headquarters; the massive extension of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (especially that housing the Temple of Dendur); and the Merrill Lynch trading room at the World Financial Center (now Brookfield Place). Gissen's discussion of these unlikely candidates brilliantly fuses architectural, environmental, and urban history, revealing many approaches to understanding the physical legacy of the era. --Richard Longstreth, George Washington UniversityNotas de autor provistas por Syndetics
David Gissen is associate professor of architecture, visual studies, and visual and critical studies at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco. He is the author of Subnature: Architecture's Other Environments.