Hugh Ferriss
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Hugh Macomber Ferriss was an American architect, illustrator, and poet. He was associated with exploring the psychological condition of modern urban life, a common cultural enquiry of the first decade
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Hugh Ferriss at work, c. 1925
Woolworth Building, NYC
Daily News Building, NYC
Gotham City
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Gotham City, or simply Gotham, is a fictional city in the Northeastern United States that serves as the primary urban setting in American comic books published by DC Comics. It is best known as the ho
Hugh Ferriss
…his death a colleague said he 'influenced my generation of architects' more than any other man." Ferriss also influenced popular culture, for example Gotham City (the setting for Batman), Kerry Conran's Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and Rapture from BioShock. Ferriss was born in 1889 and trained as an…
Gotham City in 1881 from Batman: Gates of Gotham (April 2011). Art by Trevor McCarthy.
Art Deco and Art Nouveau buildings, such as Helsinki Central Railway Station, inspired the look of Gotham in the 1989 film Batman.
Batman overlooks Gotham, his home city. Art by Alex Ross.
Gotham City's skyline in the 1989 Batman film