THE DAKOTA: A HISTORY OF THE WORLD’ S BEST-KNOWN APARTMENT BUILDING
Book ID/图书代码： 11030015B82209
English Summary/英文概要： The Dakota is arguably the best-known residential address in the world, home to dozens of New York City’s most famous artists, performers, and successful executives. The rare sale of an apartment there, usually at jaw-dropping prices, is newsworthy, as is the financial and architectural health of the building itself, a landmark in every sense of the word.
The first true luxury apartment house built in New York City, more than 130 years ago, the Dakota is still the gold standard against which all other apartment buildings are weighed. Historian Andrew Alpern tells the fascinating story of how the Dakota came to be, how Singer sewing magnate Edward Clark dared to build an apartment building luxurious enough to coax the city’s wealthy from their mansions downtown for ultra-modern living on what was then the swamplands of the Upper West Side. Redrawn plans of the entire building, published here for the first time, show how Clark created apartments glamorous enough that they made living under a shared roof as acceptable in Manhattan as it already was in Europe’s grand capitals, forever revolutionizing apartment life in New York City.
This internationally renowned building is now accessible to us all—at least in print, if not in its ultraprivate and well-guarded reality.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 达科塔大楼可能是全球最知名的公寓了，它是纽约最著名的艺术家、表演家和管理家的居所。达科塔大楼的房价简直可以用惊人来形容，无论从商业还是建筑角度来讲都有相当的报导价值，这些条件使它成为了当之无愧的城市地标。
达科塔大楼建于130多年之前，是纽约城内真正意义上第一座豪华公寓，时至今日，它依旧是其他豪华公寓参照的黄金标准。
历史学家安德尔•阿普恩讲述了有关这座建筑的前世今生，包括它是如何建造的、歌手缝纫大师爱德华•克莱克是为何敢于建造这样一座豪华公寓，使得城市的富人们搬离他们市中心的大厦，来到这座超现代的上西城豪宅中。整座大楼的规划图纸将首次在书中面世，图纸将展示克莱克是如何建造这座迷人的大厦，并使人们接受生活在曼哈顿的同一屋檐下，就像欧洲的大城市一般，并永远改变了纽约的公寓生活。
现在每个人都能走进这座国际知名的公寓中，至少通过这本书可以。（XAT）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 安德尔•阿普恩是一位建筑历史学家、建筑师、律师。他小时候从邻居那里就知晓了达科塔大楼。他是纽约城知名的公寓历史专家，在此领域已经有九部著作，其中五部讲述了纽约的建筑和背后的人物故事。阿普恩也写作过诸多有关历史建筑和特定建筑的论文。
他曾写过十几篇书评，出版过80几篇“给编辑的信”。安德尔教授还向哥伦比亚大学捐赠过两套作品集。自2002起，安德尔开始担任美国证监会注册投资顾问公司的总顾问和首席合同官。他自1938年起就居住在曼哈顿。
Andrew Alpern is an architectural historian, architect, and attorney who has known the Dakota since his childhood in the neighborhood. He is the preëminent expert on historic apartment houses in New York, with nine prior books, five of which tell stories of New York’s architectural assets and the people behind them. Alpern has also written scores of articles about historical architecture and particular buildings.
He has written dozens of book reviews, more than 85 of his Letters to the Editor have been published, and he is regularly quoted in print. His donations of two major collections to the Columbia University Libraries resulted in a block-buster exhibition of his 50-year archive of the work of writer/artist Edward Gorey and the first-ever scholarly catalogue of his collection of over 300 years of architectural drawing instruments, which have been made obsolete by computer drafting. Since 2002 Alpern has served as general counsel and chief compliance officer for an SEC-registered investment adviser firm. He has been a resident of Manhattan since 1938.
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