Title & Author:

Berlin/New York : like and unlike : essays on architecture and art from 1870 to the present / edited by Josef Paul Kleihues and Christina Rathgeber.

Publication:

New York : Rizzoli, ©1993.

Description:

511 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments / Josef Paul Kleihues -- pt. 1. 1870-1918. The City as Creator and Creation / Thomas P. Hughes. The Development of the Dock, Rail, and Bridge System of New York City 1870-1920 / Carl Condit. The Metropolis as a Construction: Engineering Structures in Berlin 1871-1914 / Hans Kollhoff. The Berlin Tiergarten / Folkwin Wendland. Central Park / Jordan Mejias. The Berlin Garden City of Falkenberg: A Successful Example of Planning from the German Garden City Movement / Kristiana Hartmann. New York and the Garden City Movement Between the Wars / Daniel Schaffer. Going in Style: The Architecture of Transportation in the Glory Days of Metropolitanism / Robert A.M. Stern. Architecture and Urban Planning 1850-1914 / Hartwig Schmidt. The Berlin Mietskaserne and Its Reforms / Dietrich Worbs. On the Uses of Air: Perfecting the New York Tenement 1850-1901 / Richard A. Plunz. The Birth Pangs of Modernism / Eberhard Roters. The Art World in New York 1900-1919 / Patricia Hills.
The City and Entertainment: Coney Island and Haus Vaterland / Roger Green. Observations -- pt. 2. 1918-1945. Searching for the New Dimensions of the City / Nicholas Bullock. Modernism and the Metropolis: Plans for Central Berlin 1910-41 / Vittorio M. Lampugnani. Neighborhood Block and Garden Court: New York City Housing Between the World Wars / Richard Pommer. Between America and Germany: Werner Hegemann's Approach to Urban Planning / Werner Oechslin. Moses and Ammann: Notes on the Modernization of the Empire State / Kenneth Frampton. Manhattan Transfer: The New York Myth and Berlin Architecture in the Context of Ludwig Hilberseimer's High-Rise City / Fritz Neumeyer. Art Deco Skyscapers: Towers of Modern Babel / Rosemary Haag Bletter. Post Expressionism: Notes on Dada, Neue Sachlichkeit, and Bauhaus / Wieland Schmied. The New York Art World During the Interwar Years / Garnett McCoy. Berlin and New York: A Personal Involvement / Michael Blackwood. Observations -- pt. 3. 1945 to the Present.
Collage and Chaos / Peter Blake. From the Destruction to the Critical Reconstruction of the City: Urban Design in Berlin after 1945 / Josef Paul Kleihues. Manhattan Montage: The Art of Spatial Restructuring 1945-88 / M. Christine Boyer. In Dialogue with Witnesses to the Past: The Architecture of West Berlin / Peter Rumpf. In Search of Lost Research / Herbert Muschamp. Vicissitudes: The Art World in Postwar Berlin / Karl Ruhrberg. The New York Art World Since 1945 / Dore Ashton. Competition of the Fragments: Challenges for Tomorrow's Berlin / Michael Monninger. Competition of the Centers: A Cultural and Philosophical Comparison / Mathias Schreiber.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0847816575
9780847816576

Subject:

Art, German Germany Berlin 19th century.
Art, German Germany Berlin 20th century.
Art, American New York (State) New York 19th century.
Art, American New York (State) New York 20th century.
Art, Comparative.
Art allemand Allemagne Berlin 20e siècle.
Art américain New York (État) New York 19e siècle.
Art américain New York (État) New York 20e siècle.
Art comparé.
Art, American
Art, German
Germany Berlin
New York (State) New York
Geschichte 1870-

Form/genre:

Books.

Added entries:

Kleihues, Josef Paul.
Rathgeber, Christina.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 112019
Call No.: ID N7428.5.B47; ID:94-B884
Status: Available