Robert Alexander Gonzalez (20 results)
Designing Tomorrow America's World's Fairs of the 1930S
Schiavo, Laura B. & Robert W. Rydell & Matthew Bokovoy & Robert Bennett & Robert Alexander Gonzalez & Neil Harris & Lisa D. Schrenk & Kristina Wilson & Richard Guy Wilson
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Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.Last Exit Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, CT. 2010. 224 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in illustrated paper covered boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extre…mities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In the midst of the Great Depression, America's World's Fairs of the 1930s gave hope to millions, sustaining the assembled with visions of future progress. These grand expositions in Chicago, San Diego, Dallas, Cleveland, New York, and San Francisco showcased an optimistic, consumerist future society and symbolized the Modernist message of progress through design. Designing Tomorrow celebrates the influence and impact of these international expositions. Offering an overview of the fairs and detailed discussions of individual works, distinguished authors examine how designers reconciled radical "European" Modern style with American tradition. Works by Edward H. Bennet, Gilbert Rohde, George Keck, Richard Neutra, and others illuminate the ways in which Modernism became an integral component of the vocabulary of American design. Additional essays highlight the visual power of these expositions, featuring rare artifacts and photographs of objects including models and plans for "the houses and cities of tomorrow, " streamlined trains, modern furnishings, and the first televisions. EB; 8 X 0.75 X 10 inches; 224 pages.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Coinciding with the centennial of the Pan American Union (now the Organization of American States), GonzÁlez explores how nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. architects and their clients built a visionary Pan-America to promote commerce and cultural exchange between United States and Latin America.…Late in the nineteenth century, U.S. commercial and political interests began eyeing the countries of Latin America as plantations, farms, and mines to be accessed by new shipping lines and railroads. As their desire to dominate commerce and trade in the Western Hemisphere grew, these U.S. interests promoted the concept of "Pan-Americanism" to link the United States and Latin America and called on U.S. architects to help set the stage for Pan-Americanism's development. Through international expositions, monuments, and institution building, U.S. architects translated the concept of a united Pan-American sensibility into architectural or built form. In the process, they also constructed an artificial ideological identity-a fictional Pan-America peopled with imaginary Pan-American citizens, the hemispheric loyalists who would support these projects and who were the presumed benefactors of this presumed architecture of unification. Designing Pan-America presents the first examination of the architectural expressions of Pan-Americanism. Concentrating on U.S. architects and their clients, Robert Alexander GonzÁlez demonstrates how they proposed designs reflecting U.S. presumptions and projections about the relationship between the United States and Latin America. This forgotten chapter of American architecture unfolds over the course of a number of international expositions, ranging from the North, Central, and South American Exposition of 1885-1886 in New Orleans to Miami's unrealized Interama fair and San Antonio's HemisFair '68 and encompassing the Pan American Union headquarters building in Washington, D.C. and the creation of the Columbus Memorial Lighthouse in the Dominican Republic.
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Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. Open copy with light to mild wear, clean pages, tight binding, includes CD-Rom attached to inner back cover.
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hardcover. Condition: good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. includes dust jacket. dust jacket and cover show minor shelf wear. pencil markings throughout, but nothing obscures the text. 4.
Designing Tomorrow: America's World's Fairs of the 1930s
Schiavo, Laura B. [Editor]; Rydell, Robert W. [Editor]; Bokovoy, Matthew [Contributor]; Bennett, Robert [Contributor]; Gonzalez, Robert Alexander [Contributor]; Harris, Neil [Contributor]; Schrenk, Lisa D. [Contributor]; Wilson, Kristina [Contributor]; Wilson, Richard Guy [Contributor];
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Designing PanAmerica U.S. Architectural Visions for the Western Hemisphere
Gonzalez, Robert Alexander/ Rydell, Robert (Introduction by)
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Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United KingdomRevaluation Books
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 280 pages. 10.00x10.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. First printing. Xxii, 662 pp., profusely illustrated with b&w photos, line drawings, etc., over sized soft cover. Laid in: letter from the Executive Director of the ACSA, as sent to conference attendees. Very large heavy book requiring extra postage. Book is in Nearly Fine condition with alm…ost no noticeable wear, no owner's name, just a minor bump/short tear to the head of the spine. We are rating this as just VG, since the original CD is missing from the inside rear cover.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Coinciding with the centennial of the Pan American Union (now the Organization of American States), GonzÁlez explores how nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. architects and their clients built a visionary Pan-America to promote commerce and cultural exchange between United States and Latin America.…Late in the nineteenth century, U.S. commercial and political interests began eyeing the countries of Latin America as plantations, farms, and mines to be accessed by new shipping lines and railroads. As their desire to dominate commerce and trade in the Western Hemisphere grew, these U.S. interests promoted the concept of "Pan-Americanism" to link the United States and Latin America and called on U.S. architects to help set the stage for Pan-Americanism's development. Through international expositions, monuments, and institution building, U.S. architects translated the concept of a united Pan-American sensibility into architectural or built form. In the process, they also constructed an artificial ideological identity-a fictional Pan-America peopled with imaginary Pan-American citizens, the hemispheric loyalists who would support these projects and who were the presumed benefactors of this presumed architecture of unification. Designing Pan-America presents the first examination of the architectural expressions of Pan-Americanism. Concentrating on U.S. architects and their clients, Robert Alexander GonzÁlez demonstrates how they proposed designs reflecting U.S. presumptions and projections about the relationship between the United States and Latin America. This forgotten chapter of American architecture unfolds over the course of a number of international expositions, ranging from the North, Central, and South American Exposition of 1885-1886 in New Orleans to Miami's unrealized Interama fair and San Antonio's HemisFair '68 and encompassing the Pan American Union headquarters building in Washington, D.C. and the creation of the Columbus Memorial Lighthouse in the Dominican Republic.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 658pg tome offering a history of communism, with dozens of contributors from a variety of world perspectives and time periods. An excellent overall copy. Binding is solid, square, sturdy, tight. Boards are clean and firm, slight bump to the bottom corner of the back b…oard but no other wear of note. Interior is bright and clean and free of marks except for a small, neat, gift inscription on the front free endpaper, which also has a couple of fingerprint smudges. Else interior perfect and appears unread, which makes sense since its from the collection of an eminent marxist scholar who received this as a gift but had probably studied it all quite directly over the years. Dustjacket is mostly clean and attractive, with some light bumping and wear around the edges and with one significant horizontal scratch to the back panel. DJ now in brodart.
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Designing Tomorrow; America's World's Fairs of the 1930s
Rydell, Robert W. ; Laura B. Schiavo; Matthew Bokovoy; Robert Bennett; Robert Alexander Gonzalez
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