Rockfeller Center

Item

Title
Rockfeller Center
Creator
Max Abramovitz (American architect, 1908-2004)
Raymond M. Hood (American architect, 1881-1934)
Wallace Kirkman Harrison (American architect, 1895-1981) and others
City
New York, New York, United States
Country
United States
Date Created
1931-1940 (creation)
Century
20th century
Classification
Architecture and City Planning
Style/Period
Art Deco
Cultural Context
American
Materials
stone: sandstone
Techniques
construction
Description
view of plaza fountain, depicting "Prometheus" by Paul manship
Principal architect was Raymond Hood, working with and leading three architectural firms, ( Reinhard & Hormeister
Corbett, Harrison, & MacMurray (1929-1935)
Godley & Fouilhoux ), on a team that included a young Wallace Harrison. The firms were known as The Associated Architects. Rockefeller Center was acclaimed as a pioneering concept of commercial, multilevel, superblock planning
its Art Deco skyscrapers, including the RCA Building, are grouped around a sunken plaza. Many are embellished with landscaped terraces. Harrison and Abramovitz were later responsible for the more mundane towers (1959-1974) on the Sixth Avenue side of the complex.
Source
Saif Haq
Photographer
Saif Haq
Rights Holder
© Saif Haq
Access Rights
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Max Abramovitz (American architect, 1908-2004), Raymond M. Hood (American architect, 1881-1934), and Wallace Kirkman Harrison (American architect, 1895-1981) and others, “Rockfeller Center”, Saif Haq Collection, accessed November 7, 2024, https://exhibits.lib.ttu.edu/s/haq/item/16311