Word: premodern
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...difficult task of presenting 18th and 19th century American painting to its home audience, as well as to the city of Ingres, Delacroix and Manet, could have been better done. What the French will make of it, of course, is an open question, since the only premodern American artists known in France are Whistler, Eakins and Cassatt...
...million to $400 million Texas-size office tower in the best premodern skyscraper tradition is proposed for Houston. It does not challenge the record height of Chicago's 1,450-ft. Sears Tower. But even as a scale model, it appears taller and prouder. Like the Chicago Tribune Tower and New York City's Chrysler Building, both more than a half-century old, it seems rooted in the ground and soars to heaven in a powerful rhythm, an evocative symbol of growth and success...
More decisive for Jahn's development was a commission to design an addition to the Chicago Board of Trade Building, a 1930 premodern skyscraper by one of the pioneering firms of that style, Holabird & Root. "We were forced to study this old building carefully," says Jahn. "Holabird & Root opened our eyes. We saw that applying historic ornaments like gaudy wallpaper does nothing to relate a building to its older neighbors. History itself must be the generator of new forms...
...working class populations: the different work habits and expectations workers brought to new factories from their diverse backgrounds; the social and cultural continuities in the lives of craftsmen and artisans during America's industrializing period; and similarities between forms of American working-class collective protest and those of their "premodern" European counterparts...