Building a New Europe
Subtitle: Portraits of Modern Architects, Essays by George Nelson, 1935-1936 (Yale University School of Architecture)
Contributors: Robert A. M. Stern (Foreword); Kurt W. Forster (Introduction)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Yale University Press; Yale University Press in association with the Yale University School of Architecture
Published: August 28, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780300115659
Subjects: Individual architects; Architecture; Criticism; International Architecture - European; Art / General; Artists, Architects, Photographers; Individual Architect; 20th century; Architects; Europe; History
Description: Architect, designer, and architectural critic, George Nelson (1908-1986) was a young and impressionable architect when he wrote a series of articles in 1935 and 1936 that eloquently introduced astonishing buildings and fascinating personalities from across the Atlantic to wider American audiences. Building a New Europe presents this important collection of writings together for the first time. The subjects of Nelson's essays include figures both major (Mies van Der Rohe and Le Corbusier) and minor (Helweg-Moeller and Ivar Tengbom). All of these architects would soon be affected by World War II--they would be put out of work or seek new careers abroad. Nelson's essays spark fascinating questions about the canon of modernism: how would circumstances in the pre-war years cause some architects to rise and others to fall.