Elizabeth Scheu Close : a life in modern architecture /

"Elizabeth "Lisl" Scheu Close (1912-2011) was the first female modern architect in Minnesota. Over her 60-year career, she designed more than 150 residences in the state, which were stylistically rooted in Austrian and other European modern movements of the 1920s and 30s. The work of...

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Hlavní autor: Hession, Jane King, 1951- (Autor)
Další autoři: Soranno, Joan (writer of foreword.)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctv333kvbh
Obsah:
  • Foreword / Joan Soranno
  • Introduction : blazing a trail as a modern architect
  • Vienna, 1912 to 1932
  • Becoming an architect in America
  • Minnesota's first modern architects
  • Designs for a prefabrication and the Cold War
  • Houses and housing
  • Buildings for work and play
  • Epilogue : a long life, well lived.