Description
Well known for his intensive paintings in architectural historical past and ancient protection as an educator, pupil, activist, and public lecturer, Richard Longstreth is without doubt one of the such a lot vital architectural preservationists of the up to date prior. Having a look past the Icons provides a beneficiant and numerous collection of his writings during the last twenty-5 years. The writer explores various subjects related to midcentury (ca. 1945-70) protection efforts, together with sensible, highbrow, and mental dilemmas related to conserving the up to date prior, protection-comparable deficiencies within the city making plans procedure, and protection of explicit sorts of homes. This assortment provides a brand new figuring out of the richness and number of mid-20th-century U.S. structure, panorama, and urbanism, and gives an in depth research of each the imperatives for and the demanding situations fascinated with conserving this legacy.
