Research Catalog

Title

Modern New York : the illustrated story of architecture in the five boroughs from 1920 to today / written and illustrated by Lukas Novotny.

Author

Novotny, Lukas

Publication

New York : Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2023.

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Details

Additional Authors

Rizzoli International Publications, publisher.

Description

189 pages : chiefly color illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

"An illustrated tour through New York's five boroughs and the past 100 years of its modern architecture, told through the charming yet bold drawings of Lukas Novotny. Modern New York: The Illustrated Story of Architecture in the Five Boroughs from 1920 to Today takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride through the changing fortunes of New York City throughout the last hundred years, from the heights of the Roaring Twenties and "Mad Men" Fifties, to the depths of the Great Depression Thirties, through to "Fear City" in the Seventies, and beyond. Many of the featured buildings won't be found in city guides and some of them are no longer around--but each one played an integral part in the fascinating story of the five boroughs. The ten decades are explored through some 150 buildings in all corners of the city, from Rockefeller Center to the Pan Am Building to the Standard Hotel, as well as treasures lost, such as the 1927 Savoy-Plaza Hotel, and treasures rescued, such as the astonishingly glamourous 1924 American Radiator Building, now the Bryant Park Hotel. New York City has been described from every possible angle through thousands of books. But not many of them venture out of Manhattan, let alone visit all five boroughs. Out of these, only a handful is accessible to non-experts and fewer still are entertaining and illustrated. And none of them offer such a crisp and visually unified picture of the Big Apple" --

Alternative Title

Illustrated story of architecture in the five boroughs from 1920 to today

Subject

• Architecture > New York (State) > New York
• Buildings > New York (State) > New York
• Historic buildings > New York (State) > New York
• Architecture
• Buildings
• Historic buildings
• New York (N.Y.) > Buildings, structures, etc
• New York (State) > New York

Genre/Form

• Illustrated works
• Illustrated works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

1920s -- 1930s -- 1940s -- 1950s -- 1960s -- 1970s -- 1980s -- 1990s -- 2000s -- 2010s.

Call Number

JQF 23-1414

ISBN

• 9780847899494
• 0847899497

OCLC

1336889580

Author

Novotny, Lukas, author, illustrator.

Title

Modern New York : the illustrated story of architecture in the five boroughs from 1920 to today / written and illustrated by Lukas Novotny.

Publisher

New York : Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2023.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Rizzoli International Publications, publisher.

Research Call Number

JQF 23-1414