Werner Hegemann and the search for universal urbanism / Christiane Crasemann Collins.

Main entry:

Collins, Christiane Crasemann, author.

Title & Author:

Werner Hegemann and the search for universal urbanism / Christiane Crasemann Collins.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, [2005]
©2005

Description:

417 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-410) and index.
A transatlantic education -- A new discipline -- New worlds -- Theory and criticism -- Life in ideological times -- Exile.

Summary:

"Werner Hegemann (1881-1936), a German-born multidisciplinary critic of the built environment, was well known in Europe and the United States in his lifetime. A critic rather than a designer, he did not fit easily into any school or category. To those seeking to promote modernism, Hegemann was something of an awkward figure - influential and undoubtedly authoritative but unorthodox. Today, however, when studies of modernism have largely shed their proselytizing role, he is of great relevance. Our interest now is less in those who proposed the answers than in those who asked the questions - and particularly the way in which those questions were framed. For this Hegemann is a key figure." "Based on documentation largely unavailable in English - including Hegemann's published and unpublished writings, his correspondence, his diaries, the author's interviews, archival materials lent to her by Hegemann's widow, and the author's own substantial collection - this is the first comprehensive study of Hegemann for historians, architects, and urbanists."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Book review (H-Net)
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

0393731561
9780393731569

Subject:

Hegemann, Werner, 1881-1936.
Hegemann, Werner 1881-1936
Hegemann, Werner Architekt.
City planners Germany Biography.
City planning History.
Urbanistes Allemagne Biographies.
Urbanisme Histoire.
City planners
City planning
Städtebau
Urbanität
Stedenbouw.
Germany

Form/genre:

Biographies
History
Biografie.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 236956
Call No.: NA2599.8.H4635 C6 2005
Status: Available

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