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DOCOMOMO JOURNAL 31: Modernism in the US after Word War II

Author: Emilie D'Orgeix, Andrej Hrausky, Joan Ockman (guest editor), ed.al.

Publisher: DOCOMOMO International Paris (2004)

Dimensions (length x width x height): 31 cm × 1 cm × 30 cm

Pages: 130

Language: English

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Docomomo Journal 31 (September 2004)

Report:
Modern Heritage in Cuba: A Visit, January 2004 by Emilie D’Orgeix

Docomomo News

Contributions:
Calico Textile Shop: The Doomed Dome, India by Pierre Cadot
Modern Movement in Slovenia by Andrej Hrausky
Endangered Heritage: The Vágó Villas in Oradea by Carmen Popescu
Swedish Prefab Houses in Australia by Noni Boyd & Scott Robertson
Laboratory Lusatia by Stefan Auer, Babette Braun, Frank Rost, Lars Scharnholz, Andreas Schreuers & Nadine Wichote
A Genesis of the Socialist Towns in Siberia, and a Dilemma in the Preservation of the MoMo Buildings by Ivan Nevzgodin
The Garbáty Cigarette Factory Archives in Berlin by Vittoria Capresi

Articles:
The Impact of Modernism in the United States After Worl War II
Introduction by Joan Ockman

New Postwar Landscapes:
This Was Only a Test: The Experimental Landscapes of Cold War Modernism by Tom Vanderbilt
Creative Destruction: Victor Gruen and the Shopping Mall’s, Past and Future by M. Jeffrey Hardwick

The Corporate Environment:
Natalie de Blois and the Connecticut General Life Insurance Building by Betty J. Blum
Pride and Prejudice: Minoru Yamasaki’s Seattle Legacy by Sheri Olson
In Full View: Manhattan’s Postwar Lobbies and Plazas by Matthew A. Postal

The Domestic Context:
A Brush, with Prefabrication: The William Muschenheim House by Kent Kleinman
Regionalism and Preservation in the Work of Harwell Hamilton Harris by Frank Harmon
Paul Rudolph’s Building Culture: The Sarasota Work by Christopher Domin & Joseph King
Modernist Houses of the Hamptons: A Short Survey by Claude Massu

Buildings for Culture and Leisure:
“More Lincoln Center than Lincoln Center”: Max Abramowitz Versus the Fortress by John Harwood
A Conversation About the Trenton Bath House, with Anne Griswold Tyng by Susan G. Solomon
A Rare Instance of Pop Architecture: Hans Hollein’s Richard Feigen Gallery by Liane Lefaivre
Docomomo US and Change in Preservation in America by Theodore H.M. Prudon & Hélène Lipstadt
The Midtown Manhattan Project by Nina Rappaport & Erik Sigge

Technical:
The Sheds of the Voirin-Marinoni Factory in Montataire: A Patented Architecture by Auguste And Gustave Perret, Architects, Louis Gellusseau, Engineer by Guy Lambert & Franz Graf

Book Reviews:
Future Anterior by Casey Nelson Blake
Hélène Jannière: Politiques Éditoriales et Architecture “Moderne”: L’Émergence de Nouvelles Revues en France et en Italie (1923–1939) by Nathalie Roulleau-Simonnot

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