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Visions of Seaside

Foundation/Evolution/Imagination. Built and Unbuilt Architecture

Visions of Seaside( )
Author: Thadani, Dhiru A.
Foreword by: Scully, Vincent
Introduction by: Goldberger, Paul
ISBN:978-0-8478-4153-0
Publication Date:Sep 2013
Publisher:Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $95.00
Book Description:

Time magazine noted that Seaside "could be the most astonishing design achievement of its era…." Visions of Seaside is the most comprehensive book on the history and development of the nation’s first and most influential New Urbanist town. The book chronicles the thirty-year history of the evolution and development of Seaside, Florida, its global influence on town planning, and the resurgence of place-making in the built environment. Through a rich repository of historical...
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Book Details
Pages:608
Detailed Subjects: Architecture / General
Architecture / Regional
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):9.9 x 10.9 x 2.17 Inches
Book Weight:7.72 Pounds
Author Biography
Thadani, Dhiru A. (Author)
Vincent Joseph Scully Jr. was born in New Haven, Connecticut on August 21, 1920. He received a bachelor's degree in English from Yale University. During World War II, he served in the Marine Corps. He received a Ph.D. in art history from Yale University in 1949. His thesis, The Shingle Style: Architectural Theory and Design from Richardson to the Origins of Wright, was published as a book in 1955. He taught at Yale from 1947 until 2009.

He wrote several books during his lifetime including American Architecture and Urbanism; The Earth, the Temple, and the Gods: Greek Sacred Architecture; Pueblo: Mountain, Village, Dance; Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade; and Yale in New Haven: Architecture and Urbanism. He received the National Medal of Arts in 2004. He died from complications of Parkinson's disease on November 30, 2017 at the age of 97.

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