Main entry:

Gropius, Ilse, author.

Title & Author:

Cooking up dinner speeches : Ise Gropius in Japan / edited by Almut Grunewald.

Publication:

Zurich : Gta Verlag, ETH Zurich, [2025]
©2025

Description:

151 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 28 cm

Series:

Source material
Annotated archive

Notes:
Ise and Walter Gropius : "work and teamwork" / Almut Grunewald -- Reports from Japan -- Report 1. May 22, 1954 -- Report 2. May 27, 1954 : with an appended note by Walter Gropius to Sigfried Gledion -- Report 3. June 2, 1954 -- Report 4. June 16/June 22, 1954 : with a covering note to Carola Gledion-Welcker -- Report 5. June 30/July 3, 1954 : with an appended letter to Carola Gledion-Welcker -- Report 6. July 18, 1954 -- Report 7. August 23, 1954 -- Editorial comments -- Materials -- "A record ... for myself" : Ise Gropius as professional writer / Anne Hultzsch -- Architectural discourses in mid-1950s Japan : Walter and Ise Gropius at the Hakone Roundtable / Shuntaro Nozawa.

Summary:

"In May 1954, Ise Gropius (1897–1983) embarked on a three-month trip to Japan together with the famous architect Walter Gropius. Their tightly timed tour, organized by the International House of Japan and financed by the Rockefeller Foundation, brought both of them into exchange with architects, artisans, artists, journalists, and university lecturers. In addition to promoting and writing speeches for her husband, Ise Gropius proved to be a gifted chronicler. In detailed reports – her only known cohesive texts from the postwar period – she vividly describes the country and its people. She comments on lectures, discussions about reconstruction, evening parties, or the Bauhaus exhibition in Tokyo with as much humour and understanding as she does on the role of Japanese women, Zen Buddhism, or the local cuisine. Extensively annotated by the editor and supplemented by contributions from Anne Hultzsch and Shuntaro Nozawa, this volume publishes Ise Gropius’s travelogues, in facsimile, for the first time."--Back cover.

ISBN:

9783856764548 paperback
3856764542

Subject:

Gropius, Ilse Travel Japan.
Gropius, Ilse Correspondence.
Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969 Travel Japan.

Added entries:

Davidovici, Irina, writer of foreword.
Grunewald, Almut, editor, contributor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main
Copy: 1
Status: On Order