Port architecture : constructing the littoral / Peter Quartermaine.

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Quartermaine, Peter.

Title & Author:

Port architecture : constructing the littoral / Peter Quartermaine.

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Description:

128 pages : illustrations (some color), plan ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Ports in image and word -- Landfall: signs and structures -- Freeway to China/ Allen Sekula -- Seaways: Port approaches; Dereliction and invisibility; Ports postmodern and postcolonial -- Human traffic -- Legacies and lessons.
Also issued online.

Summary:

In the latter half of the twentieth century, the port has undergone one of the greatest and largely uncharted transformations in its history. Since the 1960s and the onset of the dominance of the passenger jet and the container carrier, ports have rapidly changed in both appearance and operation. By looking at a cross section of contemporary international ports ? Hong Kong, London, Marghera (Venice), Miami, P&O New Port, Portsmouth, Rotterdam and Sydney ? Peter Quartermaine not only accounts for the worldwide changes in the port?s recent history but also redefines it as a modern built environment, recasting it in the reader?s mind?s eye. By using a combination of text and photographs, he establishes a pertinent, up?to?date visual narrative for the port and its commerce. This transcends the dislocation with the maritime that has become part of Western culture since the 1960s, as fewer people have first hand experience of working docks and shipping. It also means that Quartermaine?s study encompasses structures that have been conventionally placed at the margins of architecture. These bring to light some of the most extraordinary constructions of the post?industrial age: breakwaters of tetrapods, mechanical devices for water and cargo control, straddle carriers for containers, specialised plants for bulk handling and rationally appointed space for rapid sorting and transhipment.

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ISBN:

0471984701
9780471984702

Subject:

Port districts.
Industrial archaeology.
Architecture and society.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Harbors Design and construction.
Ports Conception et construction.
Zones portuaires.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Archéologie industrielle.
Architecture et société.
industrial archaeology.
Architecture, Modern
Architektur
Hafen
Havens.
Bouwkunst.

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National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 202174
Call No.: HE551 .Q3 1999
Status: Available

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