Eric Mendelsohn: Architect 1887-1953

New York: Monacelli Press, 1999. Hardcover. VG/VG (marker line on bottom text block, light foxing to upper text block, pages of text and illustrations are otherwise very clean). Gray cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, gray dust jacket with orange lettering and color illustration on front, bw illustration on rear, 287 pp, profusely illustrated in bw and color. "Eric Mendelsohn: Architect 1887-1953 presents an extensively illustrated collection of essays from an international group of scholars that explores not only all phases of Mendelsohn's architectural output but also his early education; his travels to Holland, Palestine, the United States, and Russia; and his professional practice and relationships with his colleagues and family."--Jacket.
Contents include: "Why should we be laymen with respect to art?" : the formative years, 1910-1918 / Hans R. Morgenthaler -- "Organic!" : Einstein, Finlay-Freundlich, Mendelsohn, and the Einstein Tower in Potsdam / Kathleen James -- "Thinking from day to day, where history takes great turns, leaving hundreds of thousands unsatisfied" : early Expressionist buildings in Luckenwalde, Berlin, and Gleiwitz / Regina Stephan -- "Around noon land in sight" : travels to Holland, Palestine, the United States, and Russia / Ita Heinze-Greenberg -- "The merchandise is primary--all architectural means serve its praise" : department stores in Berlin, Breslau, Chemnitz, Duisburg, Nuremberg, Oslo, and Stuttgart, 1924-1932 / Regina Stephan -- "No stucco pastries for Potemkin and Scapa Flow" : metropolitan architecture in Berlin : the WOGA complex and the Universum Cinmea / Kathleen James -- "We believe in Berlin!" : the Metal Workers' Union Building, the Columbushaus, and other office buildings in Berlin / Regina Stephan -- "Russia--a miracle in the past and in the present" : Soviet buildings and projects / Kathleen James -- "Even if Berlin buildings had been well underway, I would have kept on fighting" : small buildings for the Jewish communities in Tilsit, Königsberg, and Essen / Kathleen James -- "One of the most lovable people and at the same time one of the most unpleasant" : Mendelsohn and his assistants in the 1920s and early 1930s / Regina Stepahn -- "The same means, the same end" : private houses in Berlin and the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright / Regina Stephan -- "I often fear the envy of the gods" : success, house, and home / Ita Heinze-Greenberg -- "We'll leave it to the Schultzes from Naumburg to ignore the Mediterranean as the father of the international art of composition" : the Mediterranean Academy Project and Mendelsohn's emigration / Ita Heinze-Greenberg -- "Enough mistakes and experience behind me--enough strength and future before me" : buildings in England and the partnership with Serge Chermayeff, 1933-1941 / Charlotte Benton -- "I am a free builder" : architecture in Palestine, 1934-1941 / Ita Heinze-Greenberg -- "It will be hard for us to find a home" : projects in the United States, 1941-1953 / Hans R. Morgenthaler.