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Modernism at Mid-Century: The Architecture of the United States Air Force
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Modernism at Mid-Century: The Architecture of the United States Air Force Academy Hardcover - 1995

by Robert Bruegmann (Editor)


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One of the country's largest and most important postwar architectural projects, the United States Air Force Academy opened in 1958. With its spectacular natural setting and stunning Modernist design, the Academy was quickly hailed as a national landmark and attracts over a million visitors each year. The contributors to this volume (Jory Johnson, Robert Nauman, Sheri Olson, James Russell, and Kristen Schaffer) and editor Robert Bruegmann chronicle the complex history of the planning, design, and construction of the Air Force Academy. As the most conspicuous commission of the American military at the height of the Cold War, the design of the Academy generated intense popular interest and was a lightning rod for conflicting values in postwar society. The design, by architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, has been hailed as the final triumph of the International Style and as a monument to military bureaucracy.

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A line of cadets marching precisely along the marble strips on the Court of Honor, the spires of the Chapel glinting against the spectacular natural backdrop of the Front Range.

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  • Title Modernism at Mid-Century: The Architecture of the United States Air Force Academy
  • Author Robert Bruegmann (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition, 1st
  • Pages 200
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Date February 15, 1995
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780226076935 / 0226076938
  • Weight 2.77 lbs (1.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.75 x 10.75 x 0.8 in (24.77 x 27.31 x 2.03 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects United States Air Force Academy - Buildings, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill - Criticism and
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94021222
  • Dewey Decimal Code 727.309
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