- Walter Curt Behrendt
Walter Curt Behrendt (
December 16 ,1884 –April 26 ,1945 ) was aGerman-American architect and active advocate of German modernism. He was an authority oncity planning andhousing , editor of "Die Form", and author of "The Victory of the New Building Style" among many other works.Behrendt was born in
Metz , emigrated to the U.S. in 1934 to teach atDartmouth College through the help of his friendLewis Mumford , and died in Norwich,Vermont .Selected literary works
* Alfred Messel, intro. Karl Scheffler. Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1911. Reprint: Gebr.Mann, Berlin 1998.
* Die einheitliche Blockfront als Raumelement im Stadtbau. Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1911.
* Der Kampf um den Stil im Kunstgewerbe und in der Architektur. Stuttgart, Berlin: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1920.
* Der Sieg des neuen Baustils. Stuttgart: Akademischer Verlag Dr. Fritz Wedekind & Co., 1927. Translated as: The Victory of the New Building Style, intro. Detlev Mertins, transl. Harry F. Mallgrave. Texts & Documents. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2000.
* Modern Building. Its Nature, Problems, and Forms. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1937.References
* Mertins, Detlef. "Introduction," in Behrendt, The Victory of the New Building Style, pp. 1-84.
* Samson, Miles David. "Lewis Mumford , Walter Curt Behrendt, and the Modern Movement in Germany," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 55, no. 2 (May 1996): 126-139.
* Gutschow, Kai Konstanty. "Revising the Paradigm: German Modernism as the Search for a National Architecture in the Writings of Walter Curt Behrendt." (M.Arch) Thesis, University of California at Berkeley, 1993.
* Scalvini, Maria-Luisa and Maria G. Sandri. L'immagine storiografica dell'architettura contemporanea da Platz a Giedion. Rome: Officina Edizione, 1984.External links
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* [http://www.sah.org/oldsite06012004/aame/biob.html SAH.org - Society of Architectural Historians ] at www.sah.org (short biography)
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