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Imagining the Modern - Architecture, Urbanism, and the Pittsburgh Renaissance (Hardcover)
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Imagining the Modern - Architecture, Urbanism, and the Pittsburgh Renaissance (Hardcover)
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Imagining the Modern explores Pittsburgh's ambitious modern
architecture and urban renewal program that made it a gem of
American postwar cities, and set the stage for its stature today.
In the 1950s and '60s an ambitious program of urban revitalization
transformed Pittsburgh and became a model for other American
cities. Billed as the Pittsburgh Renaissance, this era of
superlatives - the city claimed the tallest aluminum clad building,
the world's largest retractable dome, the tallest steel structure -
developed through visionary mayors and business leaders, powerful
urban planning authorities, and architects and urban designers of
international renown, including Frank Lloyd Wright, I.M. Pei, Mies
van der Rohe, SOM, and Harrison & Abramovitz. These leaders,
civic groups, and architects worked together to reconceive the city
through local and federal initiatives that aimed to address the
problems that confronted Pittsburgh's postwar development.
Initiated as an award-winning exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of
Art in 2014, Imagining the Modern untangles this complicated
relationship with modern architecture and planning through a
history of Pittsburgh's major sites, protagonists, and voices of
intervention. Through original documentation, photographs and
drawings, as well as essays, analytical drawings, and interviews
with participants, this book provides a nuanced view of this
crucial moment in Pittsburgh's evolution. Addressing both positive
and negative impacts of the era, Imagining the Modern examines what
took place during the city's urban renewal era, what was gained and
lost, and what these histories might suggest for the city's future.
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