Building a new Europe : portraits of modern architects : essays by George Nelson, 1935-1936 / George Nelson, introduction by Kurt W. Forster ; foreword by Robert A.M. Stern.

Main entry:

Nelson, George, 1908-1986.

Title & Author:

Building a new Europe : portraits of modern architects : essays by George Nelson, 1935-1936 / George Nelson, introduction by Kurt W. Forster ; foreword by Robert A.M. Stern.

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Description:

ix, 174 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-169) and index.
An American in Rome: George Nelson talks with European architects -- Marcello Piacentini -- Bent Helweg-Moeller -- Luckhardt Brothers -- Gio Ponti -- Le Corbusier -- Mies van der Rohe -- Ivar Tengbom -- Giuseppe Vaccaro -- Eugène Beaudouin -- Raymond McGrath -- Walter Gropius -- Tecton -- Architect biographies.

Summary:

Architect, designer, and architectural critic, George Nelson (1908-1986) was a young and impressionable architect when he wrote a series of articles in 1935 and 1936 that eloquently introduced astonishing buildings and fascinating personalities from across the Atlantic to wider American audiences. Building a New Europe presents this important collection of writings together for the first time. The subjects of Nelson's essays include figures both major (Mies van Der Rohe and Le Corbusier) and minor (Helweg-Moeller and Ivar Tengbom). All of these architects would soon be affected by World War II--they would be put out of work or seek new careers abroad. Nelson's essays spark fascinating questions about the canon of modernism: how would circumstances in the pre-war years cause some architects to rise and others to fall.

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ISBN:

9780300115659 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0300115652 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architects Europe History 20th century.
Architecture Europe History 20th century.
Architectes Europe Histoire 20e siècle.
Architects
Architecture
Europe

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Forster, Kurt Walter, writer of introduction.
Stern, Robert A. M., writer of foreword.
Yale University. School of Architecture.
Pencil points (1920)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 253882
Call No.: BIB 183697
Status: Available

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