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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Langue: | anglais |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2020]
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| Accès en ligne: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctv333kvbh |
Table des matières:
- 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.