Miller, Eva Rose;
(2025)
Modern Babylon Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss’ Retrofuturism.
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Abstract
In the early twentieth century, architects turned to a newly discovered past to craft novel visions of the future: the ancient history of Mesopotamia. Eva Miller traces how both the mythology of Babel and reconstructions of stepped-pyramid forms influenced skyscraper design, speculative cinema in the 1910s and 20s, and, above all else, the retrofuturist dreams of Hugh Ferriss, architectural delineator extraordinaire.
| Type: | Digital scholarly resource |
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| Title: | Modern Babylon Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss’ Retrofuturism |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/modern-babylo... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s), 2025. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 International 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0). This allows sharing, copying and redistributing in any medium or format including adapting, remixing, transforming, and building upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ |
| Keywords: | manhattan, new york, architecture , fantasy architecture, early film, babylonia |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10211203 |
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