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Item Number: 132187
Title: Building an Idea : MCKIM, MEAD & WHITE and the American Academy in Rome 1914-2014
Author: Talamona, Marida ; Peter Benson Miller
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788873365433
Description: Pistoia: Gli Ori, 2014. 33cm., pbk., 216pp. illus. English text. Exhibition held at American Academy in Rome. Summary: In 2014, the American Academy in Rome celebrates the centenary of its main building, the only project designed by the legendary architectural firm McKim, Mead White in Europe. Marking the occasion, this exhibition of drawings, plans, photographs and other archival material, curated by noted architectural historian Marida Talamona, traces the design, construction and early critical reception of the structure. Unlike many other foreign academies in Rome, the McKim, Mead & White building was conceived and constructed as the physical manifestation of a powerful generative idea: that the arts and humanities flourish and grow when they exist together in a single, residential context. The exhibition will feature unpublished designs and plans that have recently resurfaced in the Archivio di Stato di Roma and in the Archivio Storico Capitolino with additional material from the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica.
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