USA BAUT
Alfred Roth
Alfred Roth: USA BAUT. BILDBERICHT DER AUSSTELLUNG MODERNE AMERIKANISCHE ARCHITEKTUR [Sonderheft "Werk"]. Winterthur: Verlag Buchdruckerei Winterthur Ag., [1945]. Text in German. Slim quarto. First edition. Plain white wrappers covered with French folded jacket attached at spine [as issued]. 68 pp. Well illustrated with black and white photographs and diagrams. Wrappers lightly worn. A nearly fine copy.
8.25 x 11.75 softcover book with 68 pages and well illustrated with black and white photographs and diagrams. Exhibition catalog beautifully designed and printed in Switzerland.
Important early monograph detailing the inroads that the European modern ideology was making into the American architectural industry. Traces the development and assimilation of the International Style into American culture, with some Art Deco and Streamline Moderne thrown in for good measure.
Contents:
Ansprache von Philipp Etter
Discours von M. Leland Harrison
USA Baut von Alfred Roth
Bemerkungen zur Amerikanischen Architektur von W. M. Moser
Frank Lloyd Wright, Text von W. M. Moser
Wohn- und Ferienhauser, Text von Alfred Roth
Rustungsarbeiter-Siedlungen, Text von Alfred Roth
Industrielles Bauen in USA, Text von W. M. Moser
Offentliche Bauten, Text von Alfred Roth
Das Tennessee Valley, Text von E. F. Burkhardt. 5 pages and 14 photographs and diagrams.
Quellenangabe
Includes work by Frank Lloyd Wright; John Funk; Gardner A. Dailey; George Howe; Vincent G. Kling; Carl Koch; Walter Gropius & Marcel Breuer; John Yeon; Richard Neutra; William Lescaze; C. F. Gromme, F. Lloyd, H. P. Clark [Marin City, CA]; Hugh Stubbins, Jr.; Vernon DeMars & Butts, Eckbo, Edie, Steiner, Sweeting, Thomson, Williams & Juasa [FSA Health Center In Woodville, CA]; Burton D. Cairns & Vernon DeMars; Howe, Stonorov & Kahn; J. J. Rowland, Edward Durell Stone & A. J. Maxwell; Pietro Belluschi; Burnham Hoyt; Eliel & Eero Saarinen; Gregory Ain, Peter Pfisterer, H. Smith; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; William A. Ganster & William I. Pereira; Philip L. Goodwin & Edward Durell Stone; William W. Wurster and others.