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History of New York City Architecture
1915-1940 Dichotomy: Tradition and Avant Garde
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• Racquet & Tennis Club, McKim, Mead & White, 1918
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• St. Bartholomew’s Church, Bertram G. Goodhue, 1919.
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• Tudor City, Fred F. French & H. Douglas Ives, 1925-8.
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• New York Central Building (aka Helmsley Building), Warren & Wetmore, 1929.
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• Equitable Building, Ernest Graham, 1913-1915
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• Barclay-Vesey Building, McKenzie,Voorhees & Gmelin, 1923-7.
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• American Radiator Building, Hood & Fouilhoux, 1924.
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CHARACTERISTICS Art Deco not a classical style of building.
• Art Deco was not limited to architecture but was a style of decoration applied to jewelry, clothing, furniture, handicrafts, graphics. A time of collaboration between architects, painters, sculptors and other artists
• Type of ornamentation was geometrical (parallel straight lines forming zigzags, chevons and stylized floral motifs. basically geometric but used curves, rounded forms
• Ornamentation was frequently in low-relief, subtle or perhaps eroded
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• Materials generally preferred concrete or smooth stone However many times used brick
• First extensive use of metals • Use of polychromy many colors terra cotta but also anodized
metals • Forms were simplified and streamlined - futurist • Emphasized verticals also used mountain images for
skyscrapers • Introduction of horizontal emphasis in skyscrapers • Interplay of verticals and horizontals
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• Western Union Building, Voorhees, Gmelin & Walker, 1928-1930.
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• Bank of New York/ originally Irving Trust Company, Ralph Walker of Voorhees, Gmelin & Walker, 1928-1932.
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• Empire State Building, Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1929-31.
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• Chrysler Building, William van Alen, 1930.
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• The Daily News Building, Howells & Hood, 1930.
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• McGraw Hill Building, Raymond Hood, Godley & Fouilhoux, 1930-1931.
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• Rockefeller Center, The Associated Architects: Reinhard & Hofmeister; Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray; Raymond Hood, Godley & Fouilhoux, 1932-1940.
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