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
- Users must request permission from the copyright holder for all use in publications, including theses and dissertations.
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 26, 2024, https://exhibits.lib.ttu.edu/s/haq/item/16312