Into the Void Pacific : Building the 1939 San Francisco World's Fair, Hardcov...

by Andrew Shanken

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Into the Void Pacific : Building the 1939 San Francisco World's Fair, Hardcover by Shanken, Andrew M., ISBN 0520282825, ISBN-13 9780520282827, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US Published on the occasion of the expo's 75th anniversary, Into the Void Pacific is the first architectural history of the 1939 San Francisco World’s Fair. While fairs of the 1930's turned to the future as a foil to the Great Depression, the Golden Gate International Exposition conjured up geographical conceits to explore the nature of the city's place in what organizers called "Pacific Civilization." Andrew Shanken adopts . Lawrence’s suggestive description of California as a way of thinking about the architecture of the Golden Gate International Exposition, using the phrase “void Pacific” to suggest the isolation and novelty of California and its habit of looking West rather than back over its shoulder to the institutions of the East Coast and Europe. The fair proposed this vision of the Pacific as an antidote to the troubled Atlantic world, then descending into chaos for the second time in a generation. Architects took up the theme and projected the regionalist sensibilities of Northern California onto Asian and Latin American architecture. Their eclectic, referential buildings drew widely on the cultural traditions of ancient Cambodia, China, and Mexico, as well as the International Style, Art Deco, and the Bay Region Tradition. Th explores how buildings supported the cultural and politic

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2015
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780520282827
• Condition: Good

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