Building a new Europe: portraits of modern architects : essays by George Nelson, 1935-1936. Introduction by Kurt W. Forster ; foreword by Robert A.M. Stern

Nelson, George, 1908-1986

Published by New Haven: Yale University Press in association with the Yale University School of Architecture, 2007

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very good dust-jacket, very good black half-cloth with black boards, bottom edge slightly rubbed, some residue of old pencil price on front endpaper. NELSON, GEORGE. Building a new Europe: portraits of modern architects : essays by George Nelson, 1935-1936. Introduction by Kurt W. Forster ; foreword by Robert A.M. Stern. New Haven: Yale University Press in association with the Yale University School of Architecture, 2007, 1st printing number line ending in 1, ix, 174pp., . Architect, designer, and architectural critic, George Nelson (1908-1986) was a young and impressionable architect when he wrote a series of articles in 1935 and 1936 that eloquently introduced astonishing buildings and fascinating personalities from across the Atlantic to wider American audiences. Building a New Europe presents this important collection of writings together for the first time. The subjects of Nelson's essays include figures both major (Mies van Der Rohe and Le Corbusier) and minor (Helweg-Moeller and Ivar Tengbom). All of these architects would soon be affected by World War II--they would be put out of work or seek new careers abroad. Nelson's essays spark fascinating questions about the canon of modernism: how would circumstances in the pre-war years cause some architects to rise and others to fall. - CONTENTS: An American in Rome: George Nelson talks with European architects -- Marcello Piacentini -- Bent Helweg-Moeller -- Luckhardt Brothers -- Gio Ponti -- Le Corbusier -- Mies van der Rohe -- Ivar Tengbom -- Giuseppe Vaccaro -- Eugène Beaudouin -- Raymond McGrath -- Walter Gropius -- Tecton -- Architect biographies. ISBN 9780300115659. Seller Inventory # 93976

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Title: Building a new Europe: portraits of modern ...

Publisher: New Haven: Yale University Press in association with the Yale University School of Architecture, 2007

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: 1st Edition