It takes the average reader 4 hours and 7 minutes to read Skyscraper Façades of the Gilded Age by Joseph J. Korom, Jr.
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
This book is about the design of the façade of 51 of America’s most extravagant early skyscrapers. Included are the biographies of noted architects and the aristocrats who financed America’s first skyscrapers. This book discusses the influences of European aesthetic values in America—and scandals, rogues and class distinctions. Interpretations by contemporary critics are sprinkled throughout the text. Woven throughout the book are inquiries about the validity of Greek and Roman mythologies and their relationships to “modern” America and its spirit of invention and progress. Foreign traditions were challenged by some architects but then accepted by most. Why was it necessary for the long-dead hero of a faraway civilization to be included on the façade of a newly invented American skyscraper? This book tells why.
Skyscraper Façades of the Gilded Age by Joseph J. Korom, Jr. is 244 pages long, and a total of 61,976 words.
This makes it 82% the length of the average book. It also has 76% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 38 minutes to read Skyscraper Façades of the Gilded Age aloud.
Skyscraper Façades of the Gilded Age is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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