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Andrew Shanken Into the Void Pacific (Hardback)
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- Publication Name
- Into the Void Pacific
- Title
- Into the Void Pacific
- Subtitle
- Building the 1939 San Francisco World's Fair
- ISBN-10
- 0520282825
- EAN
- 9780520282827
- ISBN
- 9780520282827
- Release Year
- 2015
- Release Date
- 01/16/2015
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Book Title
- Into the Void Pacific : Building the 1939 San Francisco World's Fair
- Item Length
- 10in
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Travel, Architecture
- Topic
- Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, Regional, United States / West / Pacific (Ak, CA, Hi, Or, Wa), History / General
- Item Width
- 7.5in
- Item Weight
- 30.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 248 Pages
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Published on the occasion of the expo's 75th anniversary, Into the Void Pacific is the first architectural history of the 1939 San Francisco World's Fair. While fairs of the 1930's turned to the future as a foil to the Great Depression, the Golden Gate International Exposition conjured up geographical conceits to explore the nature of the city's place in what organizers called "Pacific Civilization." Andrew Shanken adopts D.H. Lawrence's suggestive description of California as a way of thinking about the architecture of the Golden Gate International Exposition, using the phrase "void Pacific" to suggest the isolation and novelty of California and its habit of looking West rather than back over its shoulder to the institutions of the East Coast and Europe. The fair proposed this vision of the Pacific as an antidote to the troubled Atlantic world, then descending into chaos for the second time in a generation. Architects took up the theme and projected the regionalist sensibilities of Northern California onto Asian and Latin American architecture. Their eclectic, referential buildings drew widely on the cultural traditions of ancient Cambodia, China, and Mexico, as well as the International Style, Art Deco, and the Bay Region Tradition. The book explores how buildings supported the cultural and political work of the fair and fashioned a second, parallel world in a moment of economic depression and international turmoil. Yet it is also a tale of architectural compromise, contingency, and symbolism gone awry. With chapters organized around the creation of Treasure Island and the key areas and pavilions of the fair, this study takes a cut through the work of William Wurster, Bernard Maybeck, Timothy Pflueger, and Arthur Brown, Jr., among others. Shanken also looks closely at buildings as buildings, analyzing them in light of local circumstances, regionalist sensibilities, and national and international movements at that crucial moment when modernism and the Beaux-Arts intersected dynamically.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520282825
ISBN-13
9780520282827
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201680923
Product Key Features
Book Title
Into the Void Pacific : Building the 1939 San Francisco World's Fair
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, Regional, United States / West / Pacific (Ak, CA, Hi, Or, Wa), History / General
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Travel, Architecture
Number of Pages
248 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
10in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
7.5in
Item Weight
30.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Na6750.A2
Reviews
"This is a fine and thought-provoking study that puts the GGIE--and a cohort of California architects--into the broader scholarly conversation about architectural trends of the 1930s." , This is a fine and thought-provoking study that puts the GGIE--and a cohort of California architects--into the broader scholarly conversation about architectural trends of the 1930s., Into the Void Pacific is rich with drawings, photographs, and passages from documents and correspondence by the fair's designers, visitors, and critics that document this fantasy-abetting architectural enterprise. Shanken re-creates the look and experience of the fair as it was at the time--which is helpful, since almost none of its buildings are standing today.
Table of Content
Introduction Chapter 1: Digging for Treasure Island Chapter 2: Great Plots, Small Plans Chapter 3: Regionalism Unbounded: The Courts and Palaces Chapter 4: The Federal Building Chapter 5: California and the Pacific Chapter 6: The Pacific Area Chapter 7: A Room of Their Own: The Yerba Buena Club Conclusion Notes Works Cited Acknowledgments Holdings Related to the Golden Gate International Exposition in the Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley Index
Copyright Date
2014
Lccn
2014-941493
Dewey Decimal
725/.91097946109043
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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