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Let There Be a Firmament in the Midst of the Waters

Author(s) -

Brock Winstead

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

boom

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2153-764X

pISSN - 2153-8018

DOI - 10.1525/boom.2016.6.1.130

Subject(s) - treasure , exposition (narrative) , bay , the imaginary , order (exchange) , environmental ethics , history , art , philosophy , archaeology , literature , business , psychotherapist , finance , psychology

Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay was created to host the Golden Gate International Exposition, a World’s Fair, in 1939-40. The fair was an expression of an idealized order of both design and international relations. Neither survived much longer than the fair itself. The author considers the creation and re-creation of Treasure Island and the problem of building for an uncertain, ultimately unknowable future. This article is a critical appreciation of Andrew Shanken’s Into the Void Pacific, a design history of the fair.

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