Daniel M. Abramson
Skyscraper Rivals: The AIG Building and the Architecture of Wall Street
Princeton:
Princeton Architectural Press,
2000.
207 pp.; 76 color ills.; 100 b/w ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(1568992445)
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The skyscraper has generated a seemingly endless flow of scholarly work, a flow that shows no indication of ebbing. Monographs have detailed single buildings or the oeuvre of prominent skyscraper architects; other texts have brought focus to the technologies, the finances, or the artistic depictions of these tall structures. A museum in New York devoted to the skyscraper has even been created, offering actual and virtual exhibitions and material about the tall building, from its...