Jane King Hession: Elizabeth Scheu Close

Cover: 9781517908577 | Elizabeth Scheu Close | A Life in Modern Architecture | Hession | Buch

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"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 architect Adolf Loos was a primary influence -Close grew up in the 1912 Loos-designed Scheu House, a seminal early modern house in Vienna, Austria. In 1938 with her husband Winston Close, she cofounded the first practice in Minnesota dedicated to modern architecture. The book traces Lisl's life, education, and career from pre-World War I Vienna, to MIT, to Minnesota. Lisl was in the vanguard of professionally-trained women architects. Not only was she perceived as a "woman in a man's field" when she launched her career, she was also committed to a design aesthetic then not widely adopted by the public or the profession. Modernism, to Lisl, meant the design of buildings that "fit the modern style of living," or those that were practical, efficient, durable, and of their time"--

Über den Autor

Jane King Hession is a Minnesota-based architectural historian specializing in modernism. She is a founding partner of Modern House Productions and coauthor of John Howe, Architect: From Taliesin Apprentice to Master of Organic Design (Minnesota, 2014), Ralph Rapson: Sixty Years of Modern Design, and Frank Lloyd Wright in New York: The Plaza Years, 1954–1959.

Joan Soranno is design principal with HGA in Minneapolis. Her award-winning projects of cultural and religious architecture include Lakewood Cemetery Garden Mausoleum, the entry pavilion for the Walker Art Center, and Bigelow Chapel at the United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Foreword

Joan Soranno

Introduction: Blazing a Trail as a Modern Architect

1. Vienna: 1912 to 1932

2. Becoming an Architect in America

3. Minnesota’s First Modern Architects

4. Designs for Prefabrication and the Cold War

5. Houses and Housing

6. Buildings for Work and Play

Epilogue: A Long Life, Well Lived

Acknowledgments

Chronology

Selected Projects

Notes

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2020
Genre:	Importe , Kunst
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Architektur
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9781517908577
ISBN-10:	1517908574
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Hession, Jane King
Hersteller:	University of Minnesota Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	266 x 239 x 25 mm
Von/Mit:	Jane King Hession
Erscheinungsdatum:	07.04.2020
Gewicht:	1,154 kg

Artikel-ID: 132637889