Title & Author:

From Manhattan to Mainhattan : architecture and style as transatlantic dialogue, 1920-1970 / [edited by Cordula Grewe].

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : German Historical Institute, 2005.

Description:

iv, 233 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

Series:

Bulletin of the German Historical Institute. Supplement ; 2

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
From Manhattan to mainhattan: reconsidering the transatlantic architectural dialogue / Cordula Grewe and Dietrich Neumann -- Contributors: A cathedral of work and new social life: the contribution of Max Berg to the German skyscraper debate / Beate Störtkuhl and Jerzy Ilkosz -- Skyscrapers and health cities: Walter Gropius and Martin Wagner between Germany and America / Jeffry Diefendorf -- Proportions and politics: marketing Mies and Mendelsohn / Kathleen James-Chakraborty -- "Germanic" structure versus "American" texture in German high-rise building / Adrian von Buttlar -- Berlin's Europa-center (1963-65): Amerikanismus, consumerism, and the uses of the international style / Alexander Sedlmaier -- Counter-architecture and building race: Cold War politics and the two Berlins / Peter Müller -- From an "alien, hostile phenomenon" to the "poetry of the future": on the Bauhaus reception in East Germany, 1945-70 / Wolfgang Thöner -- New York skyscrapers, made in Hamburg: Jerry Cotton as visual educator / Peter Krieger -- The Bauhaus, transatlantic relations, and the historians / Volker R. Berghahn -- Catalogue: Paper skyscraper: the representation of "tall buildings" in Austrian and German commercial art, 1920-40 / Christian Maryška.
Also issued online.

Resources:
Table of contents
Bulletin of the German Historical Institute

Subject:

International style (Architecture) Germany Congresses.
International style (Architecture) United States Congresses.
Skyscrapers Germany Congresses.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Congresses.
Style international (Architecture) Allemagne Congrès.
Style international (Architecture) États-Unis Congrès.
Gratte-ciel Allemagne Congrès.
Architecture 20e siècle Congrès.
Architecture, Modern
International style (Architecture)
Skyscrapers
Rezeption
Architektur
Kulturaustausch
Germany
United States
Amerika
Deutschland
USA

Form/genre:

proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Grewe, Cordula.
German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.)
Bulletin (German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.)). Supplement ; 2.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 327522
Call No.: 327522
Copy: 1
Status: Available