Main entry:

Mendelsohn, Erich, 1887-1953.

Title & Author:

Erich Mendelsohn : complete works of the architect : sketches, designs, buildings / [English translation, Antje Fritsch].

Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Princeton Architectural Press, ©1992.

Description:

250 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Preface / Regina Stephan -- "Why should we be laymen with respect to art?" The formative years 1910 -- 1918 / Hans R. Morgenthaler -- "Organic!" Einstein, Finlay-Freudlich, Mendelsohn, and the Einstein Tower in Potsdam / Kathleen James -- "Thinkng from day to day, where history takes great turns, leaving hundreds of thousands unsatisfied" : early expressionist buildings in Luckenwalds, Berlin, and Gleiwitz / Regina Stephan -- "Around noon landing in sight" : travels to Holland, Palestine, the United States, and Russia / Ita Heinze-Greenberg -- "The merchandise is primary -- all architectural means serve its praise" : Department Stores in Berlin, Breslau, Chemnitz, Duisburg, Nurember, Oslo, and Stuttgar, 1924-32 / Regina Stephan -- "No stucoo pastries for Potemkin and Scapa Flow" : metropolitan architecture in Berlin, the WOGA Complex and the Universum Cinema / Kathleen James -- "We believe in Berlin!" The Metal Workers' Union Building, the Columbushaus, and other office buildings in Berlin / Regina Stephan -- "Russia -- a miracle in the pas and in the present" : Soviet buildings and projects ; "Even if the Berlin buildings had been well underway I would have kept on fighting" : small buildings for the Jewish communites in Tilsit, Königsber, and Essen / Kathleen James -- "One of the most lovable people and at the same time on of the most unpleasant" : Mendelsohn and his assistants in the 1920s and early 1930s" ; "The same means, the same ends" : private houses in Berlin and the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright / Regina Stephan -- "I often fear the envy of the gods" : success, house, and home ; "We'll leave it to the Schultzes from Naumburg to ignore the Mediterranean as the father of the international art of composition" : the Mediterranean Academy Project and Mendelsohn's emigration / Ita Heinze-Greenberg -- "Enough mistakes and experience behind me -- enough strength and future before me" : buildings in England and the partnership with Serge Chermayeff 1933-1941 / Charlotte Benton -- 'I am a free builder" : projects in the United States 1941-1953 / Hans R. Morgenthaler.

Summary:

"Erich Mendelsohn, the most well-known of the Expressionist architects, first published this book, his Complete Works, in 1930 (the title is something of a misnomer, as it does not include his later, less successful work). It encompasses his wartime sketches, some of them no larger than a postage stamp, the seminal Einstein Observatory, and his splendid commercial work of the 1920s and 30s, including factories, office buildings, theaters, housing, and department stores. Over 50 projects are shown through period photographs, including interiors, sketches, drawings, and models." "Reproduced here in full are all of the sketches Mendelsohn made when he was a soldier on the Russian front during the First World War, fine examples of his early work and some of the most intensely personal drawings to come out of his period. Also included is the first English translation of two lectures Mendelsohn delivered on his own unique vision of architecture and society."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

0910413916
9780910413916

Subject:

Mendelsohn, Erich, 1887-1953.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture 20e siècle.

Form/genre:

Catalogues raisonnés.
Lectures.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 151255
Call No.: NA44.M537.2 E73 1992
Status: Available