Abstract
THE CHRYSLER BUILDING was built at the fever pitch of the skyscraper’s delirious development before the Great Depression, when midtown Manhattan resounded with jackhammers and pile drivers. It shows the extraordinary influence of German Expressionism on skyscraper design and the frenzied push for height that consumed architects of the 1920s. In this discontinuous, postmodern age, one can only gaze in wide wonder at the Chrysler’s unified symbolism as a chrysalis between automobile and flying machine.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2005 Princeton Architectural Press
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
(2005). Chrysler Building. In: Manhattan Skyscrapers. Princeton Archit.Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-56898-652-1_30
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-56898-652-1_30
Publisher Name: Princeton Archit.Press
Print ISBN: 978-1-56898-545-9
Online ISBN: 978-1-56898-652-4
eBook Packages: Architecture and DesignEngineering (R0)