Product details

Art.No:

76591

Author / Artist:

Bruegmann, Robert (Hg.)

Title:

Subtitles / Reproduction:

The Architecture of the United States Air Force Academy

Keyword:

Architektur - ArchitektInnen

Binding / Picture Size:

OLwd. m. OU

Publisher:

The University of Chicago Press

Place of publishing:

Chicago

Year of publication:

1994

Book Details / Size:

Quer-4°, 200 S., zahlr., tlw. farb. Abb.

Condition:

OU tlw. randknittrig, untere Ecke min. bestossen, innen tadellos.

Description:

EA. - «The Academy was designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) and lead architect Walter Netsch. SOM partner John O. Merrill moved from Chicago to a Colorado Springs field office to oversee the construction and to act as a spokesman for the project. The most controversial aspect of the SOM-designed Air Force Academy was its chapel. It was designed by SOM architect Walter Netsch, who at one point was prepared to abandon the design; but the accordion-like structure is acknowledged as an iconic symbol of the academy campus» (Wikipedia).