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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.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | NA1068.5.I58 F76 2005 | Off-site |
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- 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 ; 2.
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- International style (Architecture) > Germany > Congresses
- International style (Architecture) > United States > Congresses
- Skyscrapers > Germany > Congresses
- Architecture, Modern > 20th century > Congresses
- Architecture, Modern
- International style (Architecture)
- Skyscrapers
- Rezeption
- Architektur
- Kulturaustausch
- Germany
- United States
- Amerika
- Deutschland
- USA
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Actes de congrès.
- Bibliography (note)
- 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
- 65518817
- SCSB-1811197
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library