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An examination of the cultural transfer focusing on architecture, between Germany and the United States from 1920-1970. Examines the cultural implications of "style" in relation to socio-economic conditions, industrial production, and consumption.
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From Manhattan to Mainhattan: architecture and style as transatlantic dialogue, 1920-1970
2005, German Historical Institute
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From Manhattan to mainhattan: reconsidering the transatlantic architectural dialogue / Cordula Grewe and Dietrich Neumann
Contributors: A cathedral of work and new social life: the contribution of Max Berg to the German skyscraper debate / Beate Störtkuhl and Jerzy Ilkosz
Skyscrapers and health cities: Walter Gropius and Martin Wagner between Germany and America / Jeffry Diefendorf
Proportions and politics: marketing Mies and Mendelsohn / Kathleen James-Chakraborty
"Germanic" structure versus "American" texture in German high-rise building / Adrian von Buttlar
Berlin's Europa-center (1963-65): Amerikanismus, consumerism, and the uses of the international style / Alexander Sedlmaier
Counter-architecture and building race: Cold War politics and the two Berlins / Peter Müller
From an "alien, hostile phenomenon" to the "poetry of the future": on the Bauhaus reception in East Germany, 1945-70 / Wolfgang Thöner
New York skyscrapers, made in Hamburg: Jerry Cotton as visual educator / Peter Krieger
The Bauhaus, transatlantic relations, and the historians / Volker R. Berghahn
Catalogue: Paper skyscraper: the representation of "tall buildings" in Austrian and German commercial art, 1920-40 / Christian Maryška.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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