Cass Gilbert, Life and Work Architect of the Public Domain

by Christen, Barbara S.; Flanders, Steven; Stern, Robert A. M.

• ISBN13: 9780393730654
• ISBN10: 0393730654
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-11-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

This volume examines Gilbert's work in five unique categories: the building of a national practice, an evaluation of his Minnesota State Capitol as "a defining moment" in American civic architecture, his New York career, his response to civic ideals in his plans for towns and universities, and his work in the public domain.

Table of Contents

Preface	9	(6)
Steven Flanders
Introduction	15	(10)
Robert A. M. Stern
PART 1. A NATIONAL PRACTICE BUILT FROM THE ``NORTHWEST''	25	(60)
Architectural Education and Minnesota Career Patricia Anne Murphy	27	(19)
Launching a Career: Residential and Ecclesiastical Work from the St. Paul Office	46	(16)
Thomas R. Blanck
Charles Locks
The Politics of Public Architecture	62	(11)
Geoffrey Blodgett
The Aesthetics of an Eclectic Architect	73	(12)
Mary Beth Betts
PART 2. A DEFINING MOMENT IN AMERICAN CIVIC ARCHITECTURE	85	(50)
The Minnesota State Capitol: Thinking Internationally, Designing Locally	87	(13)
Thomas O'Sullivan
The Civilization of the West	100	(13)
Sally Webster
High Culture by the Square Foot	113	(12)
Bailey Van Hook
The Restoration and Preservation of Minnesota's Showplace	125	(10)
Carolyn Kompelien
PART 3. MONUMENTALITY IN NEW YORK	135	(40)
The Image of the City: The Woolworth Building and the Creation of the New York Skyline	137	(12)
Gail Fenske
In the Camera's Eye: The Woolworth Building and American Avant-Garde Photography and Film	149	(14)
Mary N. Woods
``Great Gray Buildings'': The United States Army Supply Base	163	(12)
Sharon Irish
PART 4. IDEALS IN PLANNING	175	(58)
A ``New'' New England: Proposals for New Haven and Waterbury, Connecticut	177	(15)
Barbara S. Christen
The University of Texas: Vision and Ambition	192	(14)
Lawrence W. Speck
Oberlin: The Grand Collaboration	206	(14)
Geoffrey Blodgett
A British Response to American Classicism: Cass Gilbert and Charles Reilly	220	(13)
Joseph Sharples
PART 5. GILBERT AND THE PUBLIC DOMAIN	233	(56)
St. Louis: Public Architecture, Civic Ideals	235	(17)
Ingrid A. Steffensen
``A Difficult and Perplexing Matter'': The Louisiana Purchase Exposition	252	(13)
Susan Luftschein
A User's Viewpoint: Gilbert and His Public	265	(7)
Jeffry H. Gallet
Representing American Justice: The United States Supreme Court	272	(17)
Paul Spencer Byard
Postscript	289	(4)
Dennis Jacobs
Notes	293	(18)
Contributors	311	(2)
Index	313