Main entry:

Pommer, Richard, author.

Title & Author:

Weissenhof 1927 and the modern movement in architecture / Richard Pommer, Christian F. Otto.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Description:

xxii, 304 pages, [115] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-292) and index.
Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for Weissenhof 1927 and the modern movement in architecture / Richard Pommer, Christian F. Otto. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Forming an Avant-Garde: Berlin and Stuttgart -- 2. Housing and Politics in Stuttgart, 1919-1926 -- 3. Backroom Negotiations, 1925 -- 4. The Political Reception of Mies's Projects, 1925-1926 -- 5. From Mathildenhohe to Weissenhof -- 6. Choosing the Architects -- 7. Building the Siedlung, April 1926-October 1927 -- 8. "Rationalization" and "Standardization" -- 9. The Architecture of the Siedlung -- 10. The Single-Family Houses -- 11. The Apartment Buildings by Mies and Behrens -- 12. The Row Houses by Oud and Stam -- 13. Furniture and Interiors -- 14. Proclaiming Weissenhof: Werkbund Management of the Press -- 15. The Aftermath in Stuttgart and Germany -- 16. Weissenhof and the Politics of the International Style -- Appendix A. Chronology of the Projects -- Appendix B. Lists of Architects -- Appendix C. The Costs of the Weissenhofsiedlung -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication.

Summary:

"In the summer of 1927, in a suburb of Stuttgart, an exhibition housing settlement built by sixteen of the leading architects of the Modern Movement opended to the public. Greeted as a major event by advocates and opponents of the new architecture, the Weissenhof Siedling continues to excite strong interest. This unusally cohesive yet varied group of apartment buildings, row houses, and single-family houses--hailed by Philip Johnson as "the most important group of buildings in modern architecture"--Remains a critical project in the history of twentieth-century architecture. Richard Pommer and Christian F. Otto offer a comprehensive account of Weissenhof in relation to the emergence and reception of modern architecture in the 1920s"--Publisher description.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0226675157 (alk. paper)
9780226675152 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Weissenhofsiedlung (Stuttgart, Germany)
Werkbund-Ausstellung "Die Wohnung" (1927 : Stuttgart, Germany)
Architecture, Domestic Germany Stuttgart.
International style (Architecture) Germany Stuttgart.
Style international (Architecture) Allemagne (Ouest) Stuttgart.
Architecture domestique Allemagne Stuttgart.
Style international (Architecture) Allemagne Stuttgart.
Architecture, Domestic.
International style (Architecture)
Architektur
Weissenhofsiedlung.
Architecture Germany Stuttgart History 20th century.
Style international (architecture) Allemagne Stuttgart.
Germany Stuttgart.
Germany Stuttgart Weissenhofsiedlung.
Stuttgart Weißenhofsiedlung.
Architecture History
Germany

Form/genre:

Writings.

Added entries:

Otto, Christian F., author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 208775
Call No.: NA2599.8.P787.A35 1991
Status: Available