Architect Hannes Meyer and Radical Modernism: A biography

ISBN-13: 9783631889848 / Angielski

Georg Leidenberger

Opis

Radical modernist Hannes Meyer (1889-1954) worked as administrator and artist as well as architect and urbanist. Amidst personal setbacks and the tumult of war and totalitarianism, this individual fought for the wellbeing of the masses in a collective age. The Bauhaus director and CIAM member built the Freidorf Co-op and the UNESCO Bernau School

Spis treści

Table of Contents - Georg Leidenberger - List of illustrations - Preface and acknowledgements - Introduction - Childhood and Youth in Basel, 1889-1909 - Wanderjahre, 1909-1919 - From Freidorf (1921) to Freidorf (1925). A Housing Compound, two Publications and a Modernist Awakening," 1919-1925 - A Radical Modernist Directing the Bauhaus, 1926-1930 - Eclipsed Honeymoon in the Soviet Union, 1930-1936 , Interlude: Geneva, 1936-1939 - Everything here is vulkanisch': Mexico, 1938-1949 - Rootless at Home. Lugano, Switzerland, 1949-1954 - Bibliographical essay - Bibliography

O autorze

Georg Leidenberger is professor of 20th-century history at the Autonomous Metropolitan University in Mexico City (UAM). He is a specialist in the history of architecture as well as urban society and politics and has published on the themes of public transportation, social housing and urban planning in Mexico, the United States and the trans-Atlantic region.