MAS, the Modern Architecture Symposia, 1962-1966 : a critical edition / edited by Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Joan Ockman, with Nancy Eklund Later.

Title & Author:

MAS, the Modern Architecture Symposia, 1962-1966 : a critical edition / edited by Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Joan Ockman, with Nancy Eklund Later.

Publication:

New York : Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, [2014]
New Haven, CT : Distributed by Yale University Press
©2014

Description:

ix, 339 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Rosemarie Haag Blette -- Looking back at the 1960s looking back : history and historiography at the Modern Architecture Symposia / Joan Ockman -- MAS participants -- Selected buildings -- MAS 1962 : the decade 1918-1928 -- MAS 1964 : the decade 1929-1939 -- MAS 1966 : the decade 1907-1917.

Summary:

In a series of three symposia at Columbia University in the 1960s, leading scholars and critics gathered to re-examine the architecture of the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s and assess its scope and significance anew. Chaired by Henry-Russell Hitchcock with the support of Philip Johnson, the Modern Architecture Symposia marked a pivotal moment in the reappraisal of early modern architecture and its historiography during the late modern period. This book contains the symposia's formal papers and informal conversations, the majority unpublished and presented for the first time as a group, and offers new insight into the architects, ideologies, stylistic influences, and geographic variation that informed modern architectural production in the early 20th century. Additionally, the discussions it captures between symposia participants--many of whom were considered to be foremost among European and American architectural historians of the period--reveal emerging methodological debates that would reshape the dominant narrative during the late modern and postmodern period.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9780300209952
0300209959

Subject:

Modern Architecture Symposia.
Annual Columbia University German Graduate Student Conference
Modern Architecture Symposium (1962 : Columbia University)
Modern Architecture Symposium (1964 : Columbia University)
Modern Architecture Symposium (1966 : Columbia University)
Architecture, American 20th century Congresses.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Congresses.
Architecture américaine 20e siècle Congrès.
Architecture 20e siècle Congrès.
Architecture, American.
Architecture, Modern.
Architektur

Form/genre:

Conference publications.
Conference papers and proceedings.

Added entries:

Bletter, Rosemarie Haag, editor.
Ockman, Joan, editor.
Later, Nancy Eklund, editor.
Bletter, Rosemarie Haag. editor.
Ockman, Joan editor.
Modern Architecture Symposium (1962 : Columbia University)
Modern Architecture Symposium (1964 : Columbia University)
Modern Architecture Symposium (1966 : Columbia University)

Modern architecture symposia, 1962-1966

Holdings:

Location: Library main 289736
Call No.: BIB 232338
Status: Available

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