Architecture of skidmore owings & merrill, 1950-1962 (Record no. 625)

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040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency ANU
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title English
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 720.973 DAN
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Personal name Danz, Ernst
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Title Architecture of skidmore owings & merrill, 1950-1962
Remainder of title SOM
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1962
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Architectural Press
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 231 p. : ill. ; 29 cm
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. This is the first book to document in detail buildings completed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill during the last twelve years: buildings which the museum of modern art described in its catalogue to a recent SOM exhibition ad defining two disciplines, “the discipline of modern architecture and that of American organisation.” SOM has become symbol for the largest architectural group practice in the world: it employs a staff of 600 and it has branches in Chicago, New York. Oak Ridge, San Francisco and Portland. It might have been reasonably supposed that such a giant-sized practice which must depend on close-knit organisation and overall planning, would inevitably lead to standardised solutions to building problems, and the repetition of routine architectural clichés. The opposite has proved to be the case as this book graphically reveals. For this vast group practice has produced a widely varied range of buildings-hotels, schools, universities, factories, housing, etc. for which the world “pioneer” can be accepted as accurately descriptive. There is not only no evidence of routine solutions to building problems, but again and again their buildings display a remarkable inventiveness and individuality of approach. And as Herny Russell Hitchcock points out in his introduction: “more imitations of lever house have been built by othr architects, here are abroad, than by SOM themselves.”
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Architecture - Designs and plans
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Architecture - History - 20th century - United States
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP - Architectural firm - Chicago - New York
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Personal name Hitchcock, Russell
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        Architecture Anant National University Central Library Anant National University Central Library 05/08/2021 Donation 0.00 720.973 DAN 000735 05/08/2021 05/08/2021 Books