Émigré cultures in design and architecture / edited by Alison J. Clarke and Elana Shapira.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clarke, Alison J., editor.

Shapira, Elana, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Design--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Design.

Architecture and society--United States--History--20th century.

Architecture and society.

Immigrants--United States.

Immigrants.

Central Europeans--United States.

Central Europeans.

Design--Social aspects.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.

Summary:

This new volume addresses the lasting contribution made by Central European émigré designers to twentieth-century American design and architecture. The contributors examine how oppositional stances in debates concerning consumption and modernism's social agendas taken by designers such as Felix Augenfeld, Joseph Binder, Josef Frank, Paul T. Frankl, Frederick Kiesler, Richard Neutra, and R.M. Schindler in Europe prefigured their later adoption or rejection by American culture. They argue that émigrés and refugees from fascist Europe such as György Kepes, Paul László, Victor Papanek, Bernard Rudofsky, Xanti Schawinsky, and Eva Zeisel drew on the particular experiences of their home countries, and networks of émigré and exiled designers in the United States, to develop a humanist, progressive, and socially inclusive design culture which continues to influence design practice today.

Contents:

Part One Social Transformation and Mass Consumption

1. Isotype and Architectural Knowledge / Eve Blau

2. (Mis)Understanding Consumption: Expertise and Consumer Policies in Vienna, 1918

1938 / Oliver Kuhschelm

3. Shaping the Mass Mind: Frederick Kiesler and the Psychology of Selling / Barnaby Haran

Part Two Assimilation, Emancipation, and Modern Pluralism

4. Becoming American: Paul T. Frankl's Passage to a New Design Aesthetic / Christopher Long

5. Paul Laszlo and the Atomic Future / Monica Penick

6. Eva Zeisel: Gender, Design, Modernism / Pat Kirkham

Part Three "Outsiders" Perspectives and Cultural Critique

7. Real and Imagined Networks of an Emigre Biography: Victor J. Papanek Social Designer / Alison J. Clarke

8. Kiesler, Rudofsky, and Papanek: The Question of Gender / Elana Shapira

9. Felix Augenfeld: Modern Architecture, Psychoanalysis, and Antifascism / Ruth Hanisch

Part Four Emigration and Education

Bauhaus in the United States

10. Gyorgy Kepes's "Universities of Vision": From Education in Design to Design as Education of the Mind / Anna Vallye

11. Architectonics of Perception: Xanti Schawinsky at Black Mountain College / Eva Diaz

Part Five Envisioning a Global Home

12. Between Culture and Biology: Schindler and Neutra at the Limits of Architecture / Todd Cronan

13. Bernard Rudofsky: Not at Home / Felicity D. Scott.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781474275606

1474275605

9781350099258

1350099252

OCLC:

1003641936

Publisher Number:

99974840106