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#134/The Skyscraper Museum: Carol Willis

#134/The Skyscraper Museum: Carol Willis

FromUSModernist Radio - Architecture You Love


#134/The Skyscraper Museum: Carol Willis

FromUSModernist Radio - Architecture You Love

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Length:
47 minutes
Released:
Mar 9, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

From London to Tokyo to Dubai, the skyscraper is a part of every modern city, but no city has done it better, or longer, than New York. Starting in the 1920's, the booming economy, use of steel, and advanced engineering took skyscrapers into reality for the first time.  Hey, who wakes up one day and says "Hey, I want to create a museum"?  Carol Willis does.  In 1996, she founded and still runs the Skyscraper Museum in Manhattan which explains the history, allure, and future of tall buildings - plus a new class of thin and incredibly expensive structures called supertall.  
Released:
Mar 9, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Join Mr. Modernism George Smart and crew as they talk and laugh with people who enjoy, own, create, dream about, preserve, love, and hate Modernist architecture, the most exciting and controversial buildings in the world. USModernist Radio is backed by the nonprofit educational archive USModernist, the largest open digital archive for Modernist residential architecture in America. www.usmodernist.org