From Manhattan to Mainhattan : Architecture and Style as Transatlantic Dialogue, 1920–1970

Content

• Introduction : From Manhattan to Mainhattan: Reconsidering the Transatlantic Architectural Dialogue

  p. 1

  Grewe, Cordula; Neumann, Dietrich

• A Cathedral of Work and New Social Life : The Contribution of Max Berg to the German Skyscraper Debate

  p. 13

  Störtkuhl, Beate; Ilkosz, Jerzy

• Skyscrapers and Healthy Cities : Walter Gropius and Martin Wagner between Germany and America

  p. 29

  Diefendorf, Jeffry M.

• Proportions and Politics : Marketing Mies and Mendelsohn

  p. 51

  James-Chakraborty, Kathleen

• “Germanic” Structure versus “American” Texture in German High-rise Building

  p. 65

  Buttlar, Adrian von

• Berlin’s Europa-Center (1963–65) : Amerikanismus, Consumerism, and the Uses of the International Style

  p. 87

  Sedlmaier, Alexander

• Counter-Architecture and Building Race : Cold War Politics and the Two Berlins

  p. 101

  Müller, Peter

• From an “Alien, Hostile Phenomenon” to the “Poetry of the Future” : On the Bauhaus Reception in East Germany, 1945–70

  p. 115

  Thöner, Wolfgang

• New York Skyscrapers, Made in Hamburg : Jerry Cotton as Visual Educator

  p. 139

  Krieger, Peter

• The Bauhaus, Transatlantic Relations, and the Historians

  p. 157

  Berghahn, Volker R.

• Paper Skyscraper : The Representation of “Tall Buildings” in Austrian and German Commercial Art, 1920–40

  p. 177

  Maryška, Christian