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Author Balfour, Alan (Alan H.)

Title Rockefeller Center : architecture as theater / Alan Balfour
Published New York : McGraw-Hill, [1978]
©1978

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 WATERFT ART&ARCH  725.2097471 Bal/Rca  AVAILABLE
Description viii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Contents A METROPOLITAN SQUARE: The Metropolitan Opera; Columbia University; John D. Rockefeller, Jr.; John R. Todd; The Metropolitan Square Corporation; General Electric and the Radio Corporation of America -- THE ARCHITECTS AND THE BUILDINGS: The Associated Architects; Theories and Attitudes; Organization; Design Studies; The RCA Building; The Plaza; The International Buildings; The Gardens; After 1935; PHOTOESSAY 1 The Buildings -- The Theaters: Radio City Music Hall; The Center Theater; Theater Decoration; PHOTOESSAY 2 The Theaters -- ART: Themes; The Artists; PHOTOESSAY 3 The Art; Diego Rivera -- INTENTIONS: John D. Rockefeller, Jr.; Raymond Hood -- INTERPRETATIONS: Ralph Adams Cram; Lewis Mumford; Le Corbusier; Frederic Lewis Allen; Sigfried Giedion; Henry R. Luce; Lewis Mumford, 1940-1950; The 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s -- TRANSFORMATIONS: From 1940 to the Present; Transition; The Future
Analysis New York (City) Commercial buildings Rockefeller Center Architecture
Notes Includes indexes
Bibliography Bibliography: page 243
Subject Rockefeller Center.
Rockefeller Center, New York (City)
Author Rockefeller Center.
LC no. 77005444
ISBN 007003480X