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Scenes of the world to come : European architecture and the American challenge, 1893-1960

Title: Scenes of the world to come : European architecture and the American challenge, 1893-1960 / Jean-Louis Cohen ; preface by Hubert Damisch.
Author: Cohen, Jean-Louis.
Publication: Paris : Flammarion ; Montréal : Canadian Centre for Architecture, c1995.

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Description

223 p. : ill. (some col.), plans; 28 cm.

Alternative Title

Scènes de la vie future.

Subject

Genre/Form

Catalogues d'exposition.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
History.

Note

"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.
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.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-221) and index.

Contents

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

OCLC

33061428
ocm33061428
SCSB-2072017

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library