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One of the country's largest and most important postwar architectural projects, the United States Air Force Academy opened in 1958. With its spectacular natural setting and stunning Modernist design, the Academy was quickly hailed as a national landmark and attracts over a million visitors each year.
The contributors to this volume (Jory Johnson, Robert Nauman, Sheri Olson, James Russell, and Kristen Schaffer) and editor Robert Bruegmann chronicle the complex history of the planning, design, and construction of the Air Force Academy. As the most conspicuous commission of the American military at the height of the Cold War, the design of the Academy generated intense popular interest and was a lightning rod for conflicting values in postwar society. The design, by architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, has been hailed as the final triumph of the International Style and as a monument to military bureaucracy.
The contributors to this volume (Jory Johnson, Robert Nauman, Sheri Olson, James Russell, and Kristen Schaffer) and editor Robert Bruegmann chronicle the complex history of the planning, design, and construction of the Air Force Academy. As the most conspicuous commission of the American military at the height of the Cold War, the design of the Academy generated intense popular interest and was a lightning rod for conflicting values in postwar society. The design, by architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, has been hailed as the final triumph of the International Style and as a monument to military bureaucracy.
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A line of cadets marching precisely along the marble strips on the Court of Honor, the spires of the Chapel glinting against the spectacular natural backdrop of the Front Range. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
terrazzo level, cadet area, cadet quarters, cadet dormitory, chapel design, cadet rooms, cadet chapel, cadet wing, air academy, hypothetical site, architectural world Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Colorado Springs, United States, New York, West Point, Walter Netsch, Court of Honor, Architectural Record, Ansel Adams, Architectural Forum, Chief of Staff, Eero Saarinen, Gordon Bunshaft, Dan Kiley, Nathaniel Owings, Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Dorwin Teague Associates, Administration Building, Air Garden, Pietro Belluschi, San Francisco, Hamlin Cannon, Local History Collection, Pikes Peak Library District, Rampart Range, Sheri Olson New!
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A line of cadets marching precisely along the marble strips on the Court of Honor, the spires of the Chapel glinting against the spectacular natural backdrop of the Front Range. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
terrazzo level, cadet area, cadet quarters, cadet dormitory, chapel design, cadet rooms, cadet chapel, cadet wing, air academy, hypothetical site, architectural world Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Colorado Springs, United States, New York, West Point, Walter Netsch, Court of Honor, Architectural Record, Ansel Adams, Architectural Forum, Chief of Staff, Eero Saarinen, Gordon Bunshaft, Dan Kiley, Nathaniel Owings, Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Dorwin Teague Associates, Administration Building, Air Garden, Pietro Belluschi, San Francisco, Hamlin Cannon, Local History Collection, Pikes Peak Library District, Rampart Range, Sheri Olson New!
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- The Air Force Academy: An Illustrated History by George V. Fagan on 6 pages
- The International Style by Henry Russell Hitchcock on 4 pages
- The Cold War (History Topics) by Simon Adams on page 128, page 135, and page 136
- How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art by Serge Guilbaut on page 100, and page 167
- Ansel Adams: New Light : Essays on His Legacy and Legend (Untitled) by Michael Read on page 135, and page 136
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