LATE-TWENTIETH CENTURY SKYSCRAPES

The contemporary skyscraper can be used as a powerful magnifying glass through which to observe the society that builds it and inhabits its spaces. Late-Twentieth-Century Skyscrapers offers an exciting interpretation of American skyscrapers built during the 1980s. The volume goes beyond the common, superficial analysis of the image of these Post-Modern structures to discover their space and reality, reconnecting the skyscraper’s image with its content.
Piera Scuri explains how recent architects have taken the skyscraper beyond the “boring glass box” to create the Post-Modern tower, and provides a detailed analysis of how and why this transformation occurred.