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Vincent Scully : architecture, urbanism, and a life in search of community

Title: Vincent Scully : architecture, urbanism, and a life in search of community / A. Krista Sykes.
Author: Sykes, Krista
Publication: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023.

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Description

278 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"The renowned architectural historian and critic, beloved Yale professor, and outspoken public activist Vincent Scully (1920-2017) emerged in the 1950s as a guiding voice in American architecture. This intellectual biography of Scully's life and career traces the formative moments in his thinking, charting his relationships with a constellation of architects, artists, and cultural personalities of the twentieth century. Scully charted an unlikely course from postwar modernism to postmodernism and New Urbanism, overturning outdated beliefs and changing the face of the built environment as he went. A teacher for more than 60 years, and a figure of immense importance in the field, he was central to an expansive network of associations, from Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn, and Robert Venturi to Robert Stern, Harold Bloom, and Norman Mailer. Scully's extensive body of work coalesced around the core belief that all architecture shapes society, and responds, above all else, to the human need for community and connection. This timely appraisal provides a platform for reassessing the legacy of these values, as well as raising fresh questions about how we write and think about architecture in the twenty-first century"--

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JQE 24-511

ISBN

9781350298378
1350298379
9781350298385 (canceled/invalid)
9781350298392 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2023011345

OCLC

1389609392

Author

Sykes, Krista, author.

Title

Vincent Scully : architecture, urbanism, and a life in search of community / A. Krista Sykes.

Publisher

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Sykes, Krista. Vincent Scully London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023 9781350298385 (DLC) 2023011346

Research Call Number

JQE 24-511

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