Erich Mendelsohn: Architect 1887-1953 by Stephan, Regina - 1999

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… Read More

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New York: The Monacelli Press, 1998. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 27.5 x 24 cm. Quarto. 287pp. Grey cloth in dust jacket. Light edgewear to jacket.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Monacelli Press, Incorporated, 1999. Eric Mendelsohn: Architect 1887-1953 is the first major monograph on the architect to appear in 25 years. It documents and analyzes all his completed projects, and is extensively illustrated with architectural drawings and archival photographs. Each building is comprehensively reviewed, and detailed expositions are given of the Einstein Tower, the Luckenwalde hat factory, department stores and office buildings in Berlin, Stuttgart, and Nuremberg, the De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill-on-Sea in Sussex, a hospital in Haifa, a building for the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus; commissions for the American Jewish community (including several synagogues and a Holocaust memorial in Riverside Park, New York), and numerous private houses. Mendelsohn’s visionary approach to architecture was evident in his very first project, the Einstein Tower in Potsdam. The rounded edges and clearly defined verticals and horizontals of this building - elements… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Monacelli Press, Incorporated, 1999. Eric Mendelsohn: Architect 1887-1953 is the first major monograph on the architect to appear in 25 years. It documents and analyzes all his completed projects, and is extensively illustrated with architectural drawings and archival photographs. Each building is comprehensively reviewed, and detailed expositions are given of the Einstein Tower, the Luckenwalde hat factory, department stores and office buildings in Berlin, Stuttgart, and Nuremberg, the De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill-on-Sea in Sussex, a hospital in Haifa, a building for the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus; commissions for the American Jewish community (including several synagogues and a Holocaust memorial in Riverside Park, New York), and numerous private houses. Mendelsohn’s visionary approach to architecture was evident in his very first project, the Einstein Tower in Potsdam. The rounded edges and clearly defined verticals and horizontals of this building - elements… Read More

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Monacelli Press, Incorporated, 1999. Eric Mendelsohn: Architect 1887-1953 is the first major monograph on the architect to appear in 25 years. It documents and analyzes all his completed projects, and is extensively illustrated with architectural drawings and archival photographs. Each building is comprehensively reviewed, and detailed expositions are given of the Einstein Tower, the Luckenwalde hat factory, department stores and office buildings in Berlin, Stuttgart, and Nuremberg, the De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill-on-Sea in Sussex, a hospital in Haifa, a building for the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus; commissions for the American Jewish community (including several synagogues and a Holocaust memorial in Riverside Park, New York), and numerous private houses. Mendelsohn’s visionary approach to architecture was evident in his very first project, the Einstein Tower in Potsdam. The rounded edges and clearly defined verticals and horizontals of this building - elements… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Monacelli Press, Incorporated, 1999. Eric Mendelsohn: Architect 1887-1953 is the first major monograph on the architect to appear in 25 years. It documents and analyzes all his completed projects, and is extensively illustrated with architectural drawings and archival photographs. Each building is comprehensively reviewed, and detailed expositions are given of the Einstein Tower, the Luckenwalde hat factory, department stores and office buildings in Berlin, Stuttgart, and Nuremberg, the De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill-on-Sea in Sussex, a hospital in Haifa, a building for the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus; commissions for the American Jewish community (including several synagogues and a Holocaust memorial in Riverside Park, New York), and numerous private houses. Mendelsohn’s visionary approach to architecture was evident in his very first project, the Einstein Tower in Potsdam. The rounded edges and clearly defined verticals and horizontals of this building - elements… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Monacelli Press, Incorporated, 1999. Eric Mendelsohn: Architect 1887-1953 is the first major monograph on the architect to appear in 25 years. It documents and analyzes all his completed projects, and is extensively illustrated with architectural drawings and archival photographs. Each building is comprehensively reviewed, and detailed expositions are given of the Einstein Tower, the Luckenwalde hat factory, department stores and office buildings in Berlin, Stuttgart, and Nuremberg, the De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill-on-Sea in Sussex, a hospital in Haifa, a building for the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus; commissions for the American Jewish community (including several synagogues and a Holocaust memorial in Riverside Park, New York), and numerous private houses. Mendelsohn’s visionary approach to architecture was evident in his very first project, the Einstein Tower in Potsdam. The rounded edges and clearly defined verticals and horizontals of this building - elements… Read More