Sarasota Modern (Современная Сарасота)

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EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9780847828722

Автор

Вес 790 гр

Страниц 208

Год выпуска 2006

Sarasota in the 1950s was a small community graced with an alluring natural beauty. What set it apart from so many Florida beachfront towns was the concentration of artists, writers, and architects who gathered thereA?A€A”including author MacKinley Kantor and architects Paul Rudolf and Ralph TwitchellA?A€A”a unique confluence of talented and daring architects coupled with a hip crowd willing to take risks. Sarasota was a place in which innovation and experimentation were the order of the day, a place where an architect might run into the local watering hole to shout: "I just invented the sliding glass door." Such was the confluence of art and architecture that laid the groundwork for the Sarasota School of Architecture, so named after the fact by architect Gene Leedy at an American Institute of Architecture (AIA) conference in the 1980s to refer to the unique architecture of this region, an architecture that is wonderfully responsive to Sarasota"s sub-tropical environment and which...