Main entry:

Pfaff, Lilian, author.

Title & Author:

J.R. Davidson : a European contribution to California modernism / Lilian Pfaff.

Publication:

Basel : Birkhäuser, [2019]
©2019

Description:

267 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, plans, portraits ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-252) and index.
Preface -- MODERNISM. The European Years 1903-1923 : Davidson's Education and His Notebooks -- Emigration to the United States 1923 -- First Commissions: Retail Work -- During the Great Depression : Hotels and Bars in Chicago and Los Angeles -- Furniture -- Davidson's Contemporaries and Collaborators -- European Ideas about Living -- International Style -- Case Study Houses : Adaptive Reuse of Floor Plans -- REGIONALISM. Soft Modernism -- Bungalow and Ranch House: Adopting Local Building Typology -- Mid-Century Style -- Public Buildings -- CONCLUSION. Bibliography -- List of Works -- Index -- Illustration Credits -- About the Author.

Summary:

"J.R. Davidson (b. Germany, 1889-1977), architect of the Thomas Mann House (1941), and three prototypes for the Case Study House Program (1946-48), contributed his European background, and specifically his training in interior design, to the advancement of modernism in Southern California. Throughout his five decades long career, Davidson produced an architecture highly functional in its plan, yet sensitive to its natural surroundings in its elevations. Despite the achievements that Davidson attained along his professional life, he remains an understudied figure in the history of modern architecture. This exhibition, organized with materials from the architect's archive at the Architecture and Design Collection of the AD&A Museum, fulfills this gap by highlighting those aspects of Davidson's trajectory that were unique to his way of understanding architecture and its practice. These include, for example, the way Davidson conceived architecture from the inside out and the integration of the outside in through large-scale windows. Photos, notebooks, manuscripts, and drawings document, in the exhibition, the prolific career of the German émigré bringing it to a new standing and recognition. J.R. Davidson, A European Contribution to California Modernism is curated by architectural historian Lilian Pfaff, who is also the author of the illustrated catalog accompanying the presentation."--Museum website.

ISBN:

9783035619225 (hardbound)
3035619220 (hardbound)
(PDF)
9783035619379
3035619379

Subject:

Davidson, Julius Ralph, 1889-
Architects Germany.
Modernism (Art) California.
Architecture, Domestic California History 20th century.
Architectes Allemagne.
Modernisme (Art) Californie.
Architects.
Architecture, Domestic.
Modernism (Art)
California.
Germany.

Form/genre:

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

Holdings:

Location: Library main 307185
Call No.: BIB 252678
Status: Available