Design Agendas
Washington University, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (Verlag)
978-0-936316-50-5 (ISBN)
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Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s–1970s features essays on the modernist architects Charles E. Fleming, R. Buckminster Fuller, Eric Mendelsohn, and Gyo Obata by contributing scholars Shantel Blakely, John C. Guenther, Kathleen James-Chakraborty, and Winifred Elysse Newman, as well as a memoir by Michael E. Willis, FAIA, NOMA. Editor and architectural historian Eric P. Mumford situates the work of these architects and others within the context of St. Louis urban development against the midcentury backdrop of New Deal planning, the Great Migration, and the civil rights and Great Society eras.
Most of the featured architectural works were created in a period of de facto racial segregation, an era that is now known for its often racist and destructive modernist urban planning, such as the Pruitt-Igoe public housing project (1950–56) and the clearance of the Mill Creek Valley neighborhood with its twenty thousand African American residents (1959). These and other urban renewal initiatives were also part of several interlocking design agendas that used modern architecture and planning to propose and express new and then thought to be more liberating, ideas about social organization and forms of architecture and planning.
This publication adds to the small but growing number of studies on modern architecture in St. Louis.
Eric P. Mumford is the Rebecca and John Voyles Professor of Architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Shantel Blakely is assistant professor of architecture at Rice University. John C. Guenther is the founder and principal of John C. Guenther Architect LLC. Kathleen James-Chakraborty is professor of art history at University College Dublin. Winifred Elysse Newman is the Homer Curtis Mickel and Leola Carter Mickel Professor of Architecture, associate dean for research and faculty affairs, and director of the Institute for Intelligent Materials, Systems and Environments in the School of Architecture and College of Architecture, Art and Construction at Clemson University. Michael E. Willis is a design consultant and the founder and retired principal of MWA Architects.
Foreword
Sabine Eckmann
Acknowledgments
Eric P. Mumford
Introduction
Eric P. Mumford
Eric Mendelsohn and B’nai Amoona, 1945–1950
Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s–1970s
Eric P. Mumford
Gyo Obata’s Other Modernism
Winifred Elysse Newman
Between the Lines: The Architecture of Charles E. Fleming, 1955–1990
Shantel Blakely
Buckminster Fuller’s Old Man River’s City: A Visionary City Unrealized
John C. Guenther
A Modernist Memoir Made in St. Louis
Michael E. Willis
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.1.2025 |
|---|---|
| Mitarbeit |
Memoiren: Shantel Blakely, John C. Guenther, Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Winifred Elysse Newman |
| Zusatzinfo | 30 color plates, 60 halftones |
| Verlagsort | Saint Louis |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 203 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-936316-50-0 / 0936316500 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-936316-50-5 / 9780936316505 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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