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Marina City : Bertrand Goldberg's urban vision / Igor Marjanović and Katerina Rüedi Ray.
- Title
- Marina City : Bertrand Goldberg's urban vision / Igor Marjanović and Katerina Rüedi Ray.
- Author
- Marjanović, Igor.
- Publication
- New York : Princeton Architectural Press, c2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | NA6233.C4 M376 2010 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Rüedi, Katerina.
- Description
- 175 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
- Summary
- ""From the day it opened, Bertrand Goldberg's Marina City has been a Chicago icon. This book provides a rich and fascinating documentation of its remarkable story, from its origins as the dream of a visionary labor leader, to its construction, triumphant opening, subsequent economic and critical reversal, to its emergence in recent years as a recognized landmark in the history of the modern movement and one of the l̀ions' of Chicago's architecture. Along the way lgor Marjanovic and Katerina Ruedi Ray offer up a rich banquet of description, documentary material, and images." -Robert Bruegmann, professor of art history, architecture, and urban planning at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of Sprawl: A Compact History" "Chicago has many iconic buildings, but none as instantly recognizable as Bertrand Goldberg's Marina City, commonly referred to as the "corncob buildings." Occupying block number one of the original town of Chicago, the mixed-use riverside complex consists of two cylindrical sixty-five-story residential towers, a saddle-shaped auditorium, a midrise office building, and a plaza. Each tower contains more than four hundred pie-slice-shaped apartments and a continuous, upward-spiraling ramp of parking spaces. Built between 1960 and 1967, at a time when Chicagoans were fleeing to the suburbs, the hugely ambitious project was architect Goldberg's collaborative attempt at urban revitalization-as he called it, "a city within a city."" "Authors Igor Marjanovic and Katerina Ruedi Ray here present the first history of this architectural landmark. Featuring newly available archival texts, photographs, and drawings, this unique building's biography explores not only its architectural achievements but also the ingenious marketing campaign and complex network of political partnerships necessary to realize Goldberg's urban vision. As the architect's beautifully designed brochures detailed, Marina City offered residents a self-contained world including a theater, restaurant, bowling alley, health club, ice-skating rink, grocery store, bank, and much more. It is no wonder that before it was finished 2,500 applications had been submitted to rent 896 apartments. From financing to structural engineering, this one-of-a-kind volume fills in missing chapters of modern architecture, urban politics, and Chicago history." ""[The Marina City towers are] the most convincing and impressive arguments against Mies...They stand out in this city like exclamation marks against the domination of the box, they alone challenge the neatly tied-up packages of space which almost exclusively determine Chicago's cityscape." -Heinrich Klotz, Architecture and Urbanism, 1975"--BOOK JACKET.
- Alternative Title
- Bertrand Goldberg's urban vision
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781568988634 (alk. paper)
- 156898863X (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009034120
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries