| Description |
x, 469 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Preface -- Italian orgins -- Early years in Portland -- The Portland Art Museum and the emergence of modernism -- Regional modernism: The houses -- Modernism versus Tradition: The churches -- The Equitable Building and the postwar boom -- MIT, Boston, and change in practice -- The Pan Am Building and sixties backlash -- The AIA Gold medal and Belluschi's return to Portland -- Belluschi in the 1980s: Confronting Postmodernism and the return to basics -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
Clausen also describes the collaboration with Walter Gropius on the massive Pan Am Building that marked a downturn in Belluschi's popular reception and in the fortunes of modernism in general. By aligning himself with large-scale institutions and private developers, Clausen observes, Belluschi alienated both avant-garde theorists and aesthetic trendsetters and was increasingly at odds with the temper of the times, a fall from grace that culminated in a well-publicized debate with Philip Johnson in the late 1970s over Michael Graves's design for the Public Services Building in Portland, Oregon |
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Clausen examines all aspects of Belluschi's long and productive career, from his classical origins in Rome and the arts and crafts influences in the Pacific Northwest that helped shape his aesthetic to the stores, shopping centers, and flush-surfaced glass and metal corporate towers that were the bread and butter of his later practice. In between, she gives illuminating accounts of the restrained, modernist houses and churches that comprised his early work; and of buildings like the startlingly modern Portland Art Museum of 1931 and the aluminum-clad Equitable (now Commonwealth) Building of 1948 that were at the cutting edge of progressive architecture |
| Analysis |
Architecture |
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United States |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 450-454) and index |
| Subject |
Belluschi, Pietro, 1899-1994 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Architecture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| Author |
Belluschi, Pietro, 1899-1994.
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| LC no. |
94020789 |
| ISBN |
0262032201 |
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0262531674 (paperback) |
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