Walter Curt Behrendt
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Walter Curt Behrendt (*December 16, 1884, Metz - † April 26, 1945, Hanover) was a Lorraine-born German and American architect. He was an authority on city planning and housing.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] External links
- Walter Curt Behrendt at the archINFORM database
- http://www.sah.org/oldsite06012004/aame/biob.html (short biography)
[edit] 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.
[edit] See also
- Alfred Messel (de:Alfred Messel)
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