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Esther McCoy (1904–1989)

Autor(a) de Five California Architects

23+ Works 316 Membros 3 Críticas

About the Author

Esther McCoy (1904-89) was a keen literary stylist, perceptive architectural historian, and attentive witness to the birth of midcentury modernist design. McCoy's impressive writing life spanned sixty years and charted the progressive territory of American idealism from the collective utopian mostrar mais spirit of jazz-age Greenwich Village, through the Depression and WW II to the design-driven optimism of postwar Los Angeles. Five California Architects, her landmark 1960 hook, has long been recognized as an indispensable classic. As Reyner Banham observed, "No one can write about architecture in California without acknowledging her as the mother of us all." mostrar menos

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Obras por Esther McCoy

Five California Architects (1975) 102 exemplares
Case Study Houses: 1945-1962 (1977) 72 exemplares
Richard Neutra (1960) 49 exemplares
Craig Ellwood. Architecture (1968) 15 exemplares
The Second Generation (1984) 11 exemplares

Associated Works

The Best American Short Stories 1950 (1950) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1904-11-18
Data de falecimento
1989-12-30
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Horatio, Arkansas, USA
Local de falecimento
Santa Monica, California, USA
Locais de residência
Santa Monica, California, USA
Educação
University of Michigan (BA|1926)
Ocupações
Architectural Historian
critic
curator
essayist
Relações
Tobey, Berkeley Greene (husband)
Prémios e menções honrosas
AIA National Honor Award for Excellence (1985)
Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity (1960)

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Esther McCoy (1904-1989) is remembered best for her pioneering work as an architectural historian, critic, and proponent of Southern California modern architecture of the early to mid-twentieth century. McCoy was interested in both Italian and Mexican architecture as well as the folk art and crafts of Mexico and South America. Although her professional interests ranged from writing fiction to studying the folk architecture and crafts of Mexico, McCoy achieved her most notable success for her numerous articles, books, and exhibitions about Southern California architecture and the architects associated with the modernist movement.

Membros

Críticas

shelved at: 93 SCH : Architects - Schindler
 
Assinalado
mwbooks | 2 outras críticas | Jan 22, 2016 |
shelved at: 93 SCH : Architects - Schindler
 
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PeterKent2015 | 2 outras críticas | Feb 14, 2016 |
Scarce, in the hardcover edition.
 
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Joseph_Nichols | 2 outras críticas | Mar 31, 2011 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
23
Also by
1
Membros
316
Popularidade
#74,771
Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
3
ISBN
15

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