Main entry:

Cohen, Jean-Louis.

Title & Author:

Scenes of the world to come : European architecture and the American challenge 1893-1960 / Jean Louis Cohen.

Publication:

Paris : Flammarion, ©1995.

Description:

223 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Series:

Canadian Centre for Architecture

Notes:
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Centre canadien d'architecture, June 14-Sept. 24, 1995 and at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània, Barcelona, Feb.-Apr., 1996.
"This publication accompanies the first in a series of exhibitions organized by the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) on the American Century, a series which will examine the character and ascendancy of North American architectural culture in its varied manifestations over the twentieth century"--P. [5].
Also published in French under title: Scènes de la vie future : l'architecture européenne et la tentation de l'Amèrique, 1893-1960.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-221) and index.
Images of the modern metropolis : 1893: Chicago in black and white ; Americanism and urban art ; The vertical dimension -- The discovery of American buildings : New types, new approaches ; The hotel as commonplace ; Jacques Gréber and French reconstruction ; The immeuble-villas: Le Corbusier's programmatic Americanism ; Hegemann, Wagner, and Amerikanismus under the Weimar Republic -- The "motherland of industry" : American industrial buildings and the avant-garde ; Taylorism and architecture ; Fordism and "Deurbanism" in Russia ; The "Organisation scientifique du travail" in France ; Rationalization in Germany ; The migrations of the American factory -- The moderns discover America: Mendelsohn, Neutra, and Maiakovsky : The eye of Mendelsohn ; Richard Neutra and the Chicago sites ; Maiakovsky's futurist disillusion -- Europe interprets the skyscraper : New York: new horizons ; From Friedrichstrasse to Chicago Tribune ; From Perret's "Tower-cities" to Le Corbusier's Plan Voisin ; Amerikanismus at work in Berlin ; Amerikanizm and avant-garde in Soviet Russia ; The Christopher Columbus Memorial, 1929 -- Americanism in the thirties : The competitions for the Triumphal Way in Paris ; The Beaux-Arts and America ; Le Corbusier's journey to the country of timid people ; Stalinist urban projects and America ; America as seen from Nazi Germany -- The Second World War and European reconstruction : American models for Russia in the wake of destruction ; American techniques in France ; The "tall buildings" of Moscow -- Americanism, mechanization, suburbanization : Giedion's Mechanization takes command ; Man made in America as seen from Great Britain ; American imagery and pop culture: the independent group ; Machine made America ; Archigram: drive-in America ; Postscript: Americanism and architectural "exception."
Foreword by Phyllis Lambert.
Includes reproductions of CCA collection material.

ISBN:

2080135767 (paperback)
9782080135766 (paperback)

Subject:

World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
International style (Architecture)
Architecture Europe American influences Exhibitions.
Architecture Europe History 20th century Exhibitions.
Architecture United States History 20th century Exhibitions.
City planning Europe American influences Exhibitions.
Futurism (Art) Europe Exhibitions.
Architecture Europe Influence américaine Expositions.
Architecture Europe Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Urbanisme Europe Influence américaine Expositions.
Futurisme (Art) Europe Expositions.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Style international (Architecture)
International Style (modern European architecture style)
Futurism (Art)
City planning American influences
Architecture American influences
Architecture
Architecture, Modern
Architecture Europe American influences.
Architecture United States 20th century
City planning Europe American influences.
Futurism (Art) Europe.
United States
Europe
Centre canadien d'architecture Collection
Centre canadien d'architecture. Bibliothèque Collections

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
History

Added entries:

Centre canadien d'architecture
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
Lambert, Phyllis

Holdings:

Location: Library cage cca productions 209276
Call No.: 1995-3a
Copy: c. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library study room cca productions 209278
Call No.: NA958.C6 1995a
Copy: c. 3
Status: Available

Location: Library main 209275
Call No.: NA958.C6 1995a
Copy: c. 4
Status: External loan

Location: Library cage cca productions 209277
Call No.: 1995-3a
Copy: c. 2
Status: Available