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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 727.30978856
EAN: 9780226076935
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0226076938
Label: University Of Chicago Press
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 200
Publication Date: February 15, 1995
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Studio: University Of Chicago Press
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One of the country's largest and most important postwar architectural projects, the United States Air Force Academy opened in 1958. With its spectacular natural setting and stunning Modernist design, the Academy was quickly hailed as a national landmark and attracts over a million visitors each year.
The contributors to this volume (Jory Johnson, Robert Nauman, Sheri Olson, James Russell, and Kristen Schaffer) and editor Robert Bruegmann chronicle the complex history of the planning, design, and construction of the Air Force Academy. As the most conspicuous commission of the American military at the height of the Cold War, the design of the Academy generated intense popular interest and was a lightning rod for conflicting values in postwar society. The design, by architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, has been hailed as the final triumph of the International Style and as a monument to military bureaucracy.
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The book well covers the architecture BUT the author obviously did not talk to the two USAFA officers in the original cadre that did the work to create the design controls and design directives to be used in designing each building. I happen to be one of the two. There are many incorrect or incomplete statements in the book on how the deisgns evolved into what is there today.
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