Entrée principale:

Cohen, Jean-Louis.

Titre et auteur:

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

Série(s):

Canadian Centre for Architecture

Notes:
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."

ISBN:

2080135767 (paperback)
9782080135766 (paperback)

Sujet:

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
United States
Europe

Classification/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
History

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