The miniature and the gigantic in Philadelphia architecture : essays on designing the city to human scale / Gray Read ; with a foreword by Marco Frascari.

Main entry:

Read, Gray.

Title & Author:

The miniature and the gigantic in Philadelphia architecture : essays on designing the city to human scale / Gray Read ; with a foreword by Marco Frascari.

Publication:

Description:

ix, 127 pages, 38 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-123) and index.
Introduction: Measure of measures in Philadelphia -- Philadelphia geometries -- Above the roof: exquisite miniature -- Under Philadelphia: infrastructural gigantic -- Framing difference: the window's view -- Poetics of scale.

ISBN:

0773454292
9780773454293

Subject:

City planning Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Architecture Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Architecture Composition, proportion, etc.
Urbanisme Pennsylvanie Philadelphie.
Architecture Pennsylvanie Philadelphie.
Architecture Composition, proportions, etc.
Architecture.
Buildings.
City planning.
Stadtplanung
Architektur
Proportion
Philadelphia (Pa.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Philadelphie (Penns.) Constructions.
Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, Pa.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 254648
Call No.: BIB 184689
Status: Available

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