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From Manhattan to Mainhattan : architecture and style as transatlantic dialogue, 1920-1970

Title
From Manhattan to Mainhattan : architecture and style as transatlantic dialogue, 1920-1970 / [edited by Cordula Grewe].
Publication
Washington, D.C. : German Historical Institute, 2005.
Supplementary Content
Bulletin of the German Historical Institute

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  • Grewe, Cordula.
  • German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.)
Description
iv, 233 pages : illustrations (some color); 23 cm.
Series Statement
Bulletin of the German Historical Institute. Supplement ; 2
Uniform Title
Bulletin (German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.)). Supplement ; no. 2.
Subjects
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  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
From Manhattan to mainhattan: reconsidering the transatlantic architectural dialogue / Cordula Grewe and Dietrich Neumann -- Contributors: A cathedral of work and new social life: the contribution of Max Berg to the German skyscraper debate / Beate Störtkuhl and Jerzy Ilkosz -- Skyscrapers and health cities: Walter Gropius and Martin Wagner between Germany and America / Jeffry Diefendorf -- Proportions and politics: marketing Mies and Mendelsohn / Kathleen James-Chakraborty -- "Germanic" structure versus "American" texture in German high-rise building / Adrian von Buttlar -- Berlin's Europa-center (1963-65): Amerikanismus, consumerism, and the uses of the international style / Alexander Sedlmaier -- Counter-architecture and building race: Cold War politics and the two Berlins / Peter Müller -- From an "alien, hostile phenomenon" to the "poetry of the future": on the Bauhaus reception in East Germany, 1945-70 / Wolfgang Thöner -- New York skyscrapers, made in Hamburg: Jerry Cotton as visual educator / Peter Krieger -- The Bauhaus, transatlantic relations, and the historians / Volker R. Berghahn -- Catalogue: Paper skyscraper: the representation of "tall buildings" in Austrian and German commercial art, 1920-40 / Christian Maryška.
OCLC
  • ocm65518817
  • SCSB-9253162
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Columbia University Libraries