Collins, Christiane Crasemann. creator text bibliography biography nyu 2005 First edition monographic eng

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417 p. ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm. "Werner Hegemann (1881-1936), a German-born multidisciplinary critic of the built environment, was well known in Europe and the United States in his lifetime. A critic rather than a designer, he did not fit easily into any school or category. To those seeking to promote modernism, Hegemann was something of an awkward figure - influential and undoubtedly authoritative but unorthodox. Today, however, when studies of modernism have largely shed their proselytizing role, he is of great relevance. Our interest now is less in those who proposed the answers than in those who asked the questions - and particularly the way in which those questions were framed. For this Hegemann is a key figure." "Based on documentation largely unavailable in English - including Hegemann's published and unpublished writings, his correspondence, his diaries, the author's interviews, archival materials lent to her by Hegemann's widow, and the author's own substantial collection - this is the first comprehensive study of Hegemann for historians, architects, and urbanists." -- Contents: 7 Acknowledgments -- 9 Preface -- 11 Sources -- 15 1. A Transatlantic Education -- 15 Prussia to Pennsylvania -- 19 Boston 1915 -- 32 2. A New Discipline -- 32 A Master Plan for ''Metropolis'' -- 35 Hegemann and the Invention of the City Planning Exhibition -- 46 '' The Task of Town Building is an International One and Every Nation May Contribute to Our Knowledge '' -- 58 Conceptual Consequences of the Universal Exhibition -- 68 Fur Gross Berlin -- 81 Color Plates -- 85 3. New Worlds -- 85 The Lecture Tour of 1913 -- 115 Hegemann & Peets, City Planning and Landscape Architects -- 139 The American Vitruvius : mAn Architect's Handbook of Civic Art -- 146 4. Theory and Criticism -- 146 Back to a Broken Continent -- 152 Wasmuth Verlag -- 157 Amerikanismus and the Frank Lloyd Wright Debate -- 167 Mendelsohn, '' One of the Most Inventive among Modern Architects'' -- 179 Conflicting Visions of the Modern City -- 192 Pitfalls of Critism -- 211 Modernism : Style of Function 226 Race and Culture 240 5. Life in Ideological Times -- 240 Alemannenstrasse 21 -- 252 Urban Interchange in the Southern Cone -- 265 Romanticism, Classicism, Style or Virtue -- 276 The Stones of Berlin -- 291 Hegemann, Belletrist -- 304 Berlin 1933 -- 322 6. Exile -- 322 New York and the New School for Social Research -- 326 Refugee without Refuge -- 330 Academic Prospects -- 341 ''Housing'': Full Circle -- 362 An Untimely Death -- 369 Notes -- 409 Bibliography -- 411 Index -- Christiane Crasemann Collins. Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-410) and index. Hegemann, Werner 1881-1936 City planners Germany Biography City planning History HT169.G3 C637 2005 307.1/216/092 B 0393731561 9780393731569 2004065436 pucpr 012110 20251216095456.0 eng