Jewish architects - Jewish architecture? / edited by Andreas Brämer, Katrin Kessler, Ulrich Knufinke & Mirko Przystawik.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brämer, Andreas, editor.

Kessler, Katrin, editor.

Knufinke, Ulrich, editor.

Przystawik, Mirko, editor.

Series:

Schriften der Bet Tfila--Forschungsstelle für jüdische Architektur in Europa ; Band 12.

Schriften der Bet Tfila - Forschungsstelle für jüdische Architektur in Europa ; Band 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish architecture--History--Congresses.

Jewish architecture.

Jewish architects--Biography--Congresses.

Jewish architects.

Synagogue architecture--History--Congresses.

Synagogue architecture.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

215 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

Petersberg : Michael Imhof Verlag ; [Braunschweig] : Bet Tfila, [2021]

Contents:

Foreword / Andreas Brämer

Jewish architects - Jewish architecture? : biographical studies and architectural history as an interdisciplinary and international field of research / Ulrich Knufinke

Maneschin the master builder : Jews as "architects" in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period? / Mirko Przystawik

Henry Fernbach : his associates and his legacy / Joy Kestenbaum

Arnold W. Brunner (1857-1925) : American's foremost Jewish architect / Samuel D. Gruber

Ludwig Levy : an architect of Jewish faith? / Mirko Przystawik

Jewish architects and their networds : the example of the Zionist architect Richard Michel / Katrin Kessler

Design(ed) in public discourse : two competitions for a synagogue in early twentieth-century Vienna / Ulrike Unterweger

Cinema architecture and the relationship between architecture and client : the case of Martin Punitzer and Gustav Neustein / Claudia Marcy & Günter Schlusche

"Jewification" of Hungarian architecture the dispute of gentiles and Jews in 1906 / Rudolf Klein

In Tel Aviv, Warsaw, and Gdynia : interwar Jewish architects from the Polish lands between Zionism and assimilation / Artur Tanikowski

From Hamburg to Haifa : civil engineer Willy Weltsch / Sigal Davidi & Roland Jaeger

The restless life of architect Judith Stolzer-Segall (1904-90) : Russia-Germany-Israel-Germany / Edina Meyer-Maril

Czech Jewish architect Karl Kohn and the shaping of modernism in Ecuador / Zuzana Güllendi-Cimprichová

From fortune to failure? : Three emigré architects and synagogue design in Central Europe and England, 1933-63 / Sharman Kadish

Joseph Barsky and his search for a "Hebrew" architecture / Sergey R. Kravtsov

The competition for the design of Nazareth Illit's Central Synagogue / Naomi Simhony

Relations and disruptions : Jewish architects in postwar Germany / Alexandra Klei

At the roots of modernity : the intrinsic Jewish component of modern architecture / Paola Ardizzola

Jews, architecture, and post-war Nationalism in the UK / Stephen Games.

Notes:

Conference papers from the 4th International Congress on Jewish Architecture, held November 6-8, 2018 in Hamburg.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783731911616

3731911612

OCLC:

1273112347

Publisher Number:

9783731911616