Main entry:

Heroic (2015)

Title & Author:

Heroic : concrete architecture and the new Boston / Mark Pasnik, Michael Kubo, Chris Grimley.

Edition:

First American edition.

Publication:

New York, NY : The Monacelli Press, 2015.

Description:

335 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Becoming heroic / Mark Pasnik, Michael Kubo, and Chris Grimley -- The school of brutalism : from Great Britain to Boston (and beyond) / Joan Ockman -- Building government center : the Boston redevelopment authority, 1960-67 / Lizabeth Cohen -- City of ideas : structure and scale in the Boston general plan / Keith N. Morgan -- Boston granite, heroic concrete : a speaking aristocracy in the face of a listening democracy / Douglass Shand-Tucci -- Boston city call / Kallman, McKinnell and Knowles -- John F. Kennedy Federal Building / The Architects Collaborative -- Government Center Garage / Kallman and McKinnell -- Government service center / Paul Rudolph -- Cecil and Ida Green Center for Earth Sciences / I.M. Pei & Associates -- Camille Edouard Dreyfus Chemistry Building and Ralph Landau Chemical Engineering Building / I.M. Pei & Partners -- Holyoke Center / Sert, Jackson & Associates -- Peabody Terrace / Sert, Jackson & Associates -- School of Law and Education, Mugar Library, and Sherman Student Union / Sert, Jackson & Associates -- Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts / Le Corbusier with Sert, Jackson, & Gourley -- Boston Architectural Center / Ashley, Myer & Associates -- 46 Brattle Street / The Architects Collaborative -- Design Research Building / Benjamin Thompson & Associates -- 44 Brattle Street / Sert, Jackson & Associates -- Lincoln House and Studio / Mary Otis Stevens and Thomas F. McNulty -- Madison Park High school / Marcel Breuer & Associates -- Charlestown Branch Library / Eduardo Catalano -- New England Aquarium / Cambridge Seven Associates -- Christian Science Center / I M. Pei & Partners and Araldo Cossutta, Associated Architects -- Church Park Apartments / The Architects Collaborative -- Harbor Towers / I.M. Pei & Partners -- Children's Hospital Medical Center / The Architects Collaborative -- State Street Bank / F.A. Stahl & Associates, Pearl Street Associates -- 70 Federal Street / F.A. Stahl & Associates -- Boston Five Cents Savings Bank / Kallmann and McKinnell -- Experiential thinking / Peter Chermayeff -- A shared ethos / Henry N. Cobb -- Integral architecture / Araldo Cossutta -- Concrete is patient / N. Michael McKinnell -- The burden of concrete / Tician Papachristou -- Modernism in search of authenticity / Frederick A. "Tad" Stahl -- The anti-hero / Mary Otis Stevens.

Summary:

"Often problematically labeled as "Brutalist" architecture, the concrete buildings that transformed Boston during 1960s and 1970s were conceived with progressive-minded intentions by some of the world's most influential designers, including Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, I.M. Pei, Henry Cobb, Araldo Cossutta, Gerhard Kallmann and Michael McKinnell, Paul Rudolph, Josep Lluís Sert, and The Architects Collaborative. As a worldwide phenomenon, building with concrete represents one of the major architectural movements of the postwar years, but in Boston it was deployed in more numerous and diverse civic, cultural, and academic projects than in any other major U.S. city. After decades of stagnation and corrupt leadership, public investment in Boston in the 1960s catalyzed enormous growth, resulting in a generation of bold buildings that shared a vocabulary of concrete modernism. The period from the 1960 arrival of Edward J. Logue as the powerful and often controversial director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority to the reopening of Quincy Market in 1976 saw Boston as an urban laboratory for the exploration of concrete's structural and sculptural qualities. What emerged was a vision for the city's widespread revitalization often referred to as the "New Boston." Today, when concrete buildings across the nation are in danger of insensitive renovation or demolition, Heroic presents the concrete structures that defined Boston during this remarkable period--from the well-known (Boston City Hall, New England Aquarium, and cornerstones of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University) to the already lost (Mary Otis Stevens and Thomas F. McNulty's concrete Lincoln House and Studio; Sert, Jackson & Associates' Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School)--with hundreds of images; essays by architectural historians Joan Ockman, Lizabeth Cohen, Keith N. Morgan, and Douglass Shand-Tucci; and interviews with a number of the architects themselves. The product of 8 years of research and advocacy, Heroic surveys the intentions and aspirations of this period and considers anew its legacies--both troubled and inspired"--The publisher.

ISBN:

9781580934244
1580934242

Subject:

Architecture Massachusetts Boston History.
Concrete construction Massachusetts Boston History 20th century.
Brutalism (Architecture) Massachusetts Boston.
Architecture Massachusetts Boston Histoire.
Construction en béton Massachusetts Boston Histoire 20e siècle.
Brutalisme (Architecture) Massachusetts Boston.
Architecture.
Brutalism (Architecture)
Buildings.
Concrete construction.
Boston (Mass.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Massachusetts Boston.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Pasnik, Mark.
Kubo, Michael.
Grimley, Chris.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291031
Call No.: BIB 234328
Status: Available