Pub Date : 2020-09-18DOI: 10.5040/9781472556639.ch-004
F. Furness
Landmark Architecture is a publication generated by the nationwide concern for local preservation that has spawned a series of urban inventories of lost buildings (Lost America, Lost New York, Lost Boston). Here the formula is varied to combine a history of architecture and planning from Fort Pitt to PPG Place based largely upon demolished works (the repetition of "Gone" in the photo captions reiterates the dull thuds of a wrecker's ball) with a section-by-section catalogue of extant monuments presumably worth preserving. Walter Kidney has emerged as worthy successor to "Mr. Pittsburgh," James Van Trump, as chronicler and defender of the steel city's architectural heritage. He writes gracefully and vividly, occasionally turning a memorable phrase (the Cathedral of Learning is, for example, "absurd but beautiful"), and occasionally rising to lyrical heights. His text is aimed at the laity, those who will influence the preservation program of the Landmarks Foundation. They will find much here to enrich their historical understanding and their architectural perception. For them, the essay is a good read; the catalogue, a wise (ifhefty) cicerone. For them, this is a generous book only somewhat marred by the lack of a bibliography. For the professional historian, the same text will at times seem slightly out of focus, as in the fuzziness which blurs Kidney's handling of Georgian and Federal styles, as well as his cavalier concern for labeling ingeneral. Myown particular problem centers upon Kidney's misuse of the term "eclecticism," a misuse which carries over from his earlier and otherwise useful Architecture of Choice (1974). "Eclecticism," according to Webster's Third New International Dictionary, is "the selection of ... elements from ... various ... sources ...for the purpose of combining them into a satisfying ...style." The eclectic building is,like one ofMcGuffey's eclectic readers, an anthology, the result of assembling disparate bits and pieces out of a usable past. Yet Kidney seems to think that any building designed with reference to the past is eclectic, even one based largely upon one past
《地标建筑》是一份由全国范围内对地方保护的关注而产生的出版物，它催生了一系列失落的城市建筑清单(失落的美国、失落的纽约、失落的波士顿)。在这里，公式是多种多样的，结合了建筑和规划的历史，从皮特堡到PPG广场，主要基于被拆除的作品(照片说明中重复的“Gone”重复了一遍拆迁者的球的沉闷砰砰声)，以及一节一节地列出可能值得保存的现存纪念碑的目录。沃尔特·吉尼恩(Walter Kidney)已经成为“匹兹堡先生”詹姆斯·范·特朗普(James Van Trump)的接班人，成为这座钢铁之城建筑遗产的记录者和捍卫者。他的文笔优雅而生动，偶尔会写出令人难忘的句子(例如，学问大教堂“荒谬但美丽”)，偶尔也会达到抒情的高度。他的文章针对的是俗人，那些会影响地标基金会保护计划的人。他们会在这里找到很多东西来丰富他们对历史的理解和对建筑的感知。对他们来说，这篇文章是一本很好的读物;目录，一个明智的(如果沉重的)向导。对他们来说，这是一本慷慨的书，只是由于缺少参考书目而有些受损。对于专业的历史学家来说，同样的文本有时会显得有点偏离焦点，就像在模糊中模糊了Kidney对格鲁吉亚和联邦风格的处理，以及他对一般标签的漫不经心的关注。我自己的特殊问题集中在Kidney对“折衷主义”一词的误用上，这种误用延续了他早期的、在其他方面有用的Architecture of Choice(1974)。根据《韦氏第三版新国际词典》的解释，“折衷主义”是“选择……元素来自……各种各样的……来源……目的是将它们组合成一种令人满意的……风格。”这座兼收并蓄的建筑，就像麦克格菲的一位兼收并蓄的读者一样，是一本选集，是将一个可用的过去的不同碎片拼凑在一起的结果。然而，Kidney似乎认为任何参照过去设计的建筑都是折衷的，即使是主要基于过去的建筑
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