From Manhattan to Mainhattan
Subtitle: architecture and style as transatlantic dialogue, 1920-1970
By: [edited by Cordula Grewe].
Contributors: Grewe, Cordula.; German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.)
Series: Bulletin of the German Historical Institute -- Suppl. 2
Publisher: German Historical Institute
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: International style (Architecture) -- Germany -- Congresses.; International style (Architecture) -- United States -- Congresses.; Skyscrapers -- Germany -- Congresses.; Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: An examination of the cultural transfer focusing on architecture, between Germany and the United States from 1920-1970. Examines the cultural implications of "style" in relation to socio-economic conditions, industrial production, and consumption.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: From Manhattan to mainhattan: reconsidering the transatlantic architectural dialogue / Cordula Grewe and Dietrich Neumann; title: Contributors: A cathedral of work and new social life: the contribution of Max Berg to the German skyscraper debate / Beate Störtkuhl and Jerzy Ilkosz; title: Skyscrapers and health cities: Walter Gropius and Martin Wagner between Germany and America / Jeffry Diefendorf; title: Proportions and politics: marketing Mies and Mendelsohn / Kathleen James-Chakraborty; title: "Germanic" structure versus "American" texture in German high-rise building / Adrian von Buttlar; title: Berlin's Europa-center (1963-65): Amerikanismus, consumerism, and the uses of the international style / Alexander Sedlmaier; title: Counter-architecture and building race: Cold War politics and the two Berlins / Peter Müller; title: From an "alien, hostile phenomenon" to the "poetry of the future": on the Bauhaus reception in East Germany, 1945-70 / Wolfgang Thöner; title: New York skyscrapers, made in Hamburg: Jerry Cotton as visual educator / Peter Krieger; title: The Bauhaus, transatlantic relations, and the historians / Volker R. Berghahn; title: Catalogue: Paper skyscraper: the representation of "tall buildings" in Austrian and German commercial art, 1920-40 / Christian Maryška.