Scenes of the world to come: European architecture and the American challenge 1893-1960.

Cohen, Jean-Louis

Published by Paris: Flammarion / Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1995

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large sewn PAPERBACK, attractive copy, very good, illustrated throughout with drawings. COHEN, JEAN-LOUIS. Scenes of the world to come: European architecture and the American challenge 1893-1960. Paris: Flammarion / Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1995, 223pp., . Canadian Centre for Architecture. - CONTENTS: Images of the modern metropolis : 1893: Chicago in black and white ; Americanism and urban art ; The vertical dimension -- The discovery of American buildings : New types, new approaches ; The hotel as commonplace ; Jacques Gréber and French reconstruction ; The immeuble-villas: Le Corbusier's programmatic Americanism ; Hegemann, Wagner, and Amerikanismus under the Weimar Republic -- The "motherland of industry" : American industrial buildings and the avant-garde ; Taylorism and architecture ; Fordism and "Deurbanism" in Russia ; The "Organisation scientifique du travail" in France ; Rationalization in Germany ; The migrations of the American factory -- The moderns discover America: Mendelsohn, Neutra, and Maiakovsky : The eye of Mendelsohn ; Richard Neutra and the Chicago sites ; Maiakovsky's futurist disillusion -- Europe interprets the skyscraper : New York: new horizons ; From Friedrichstrasse to Chicago Tribune ; From Perret's "Tower-cities" to Le Corbusier's Plan Voisin ; Amerikanismus at work in Berlin ; Amerikanizm and avant-garde in Soviet Russia ; The Christopher Columbus Memorial, 1929 -- Americanism in the thirties : The competitions for the Triumphal Way in Paris ; The Beaux-Arts and America ; Le Corbusier's journey to the country of timid people ; Stalinist urban projects and America ; America as seen from Nazi Germany -- The Second World War and European reconstruction : American models for Russia in the wake of destruction ; American techniques in France ; The "tall buildings" of Moscow -- Americanism, mechanization, suburbanization : Giedion's Mechanization takes command ; Man made in America as seen from Great Britain ; American imagery and pop culture: the independent group ; Machine made America ; Archigram: drive-in America ; Postscript: Americanism and architectural "exception.". 9782080135766 ISBN 2080135767.

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• Title: Scenes of the world to come: European architecture and the American challenge 1893-1960.
• Publisher: Paris: Flammarion / Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1995
• Binding: Soft cover