Esther McCoy (1904–1989)
Autor(a) de Five California Architects
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
Obras por Esther McCoy
Masters of World Architecture : Five Volumes : Water Gropius : Richard Neutra : Louis Sullivan : Oscar Niemeyer : Eric… (1960) 7 exemplares
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Irving Gill, 1870 - 1936 1 exemplar
Francisco Artigas 1 exemplar
Craig Ellwood 1 exemplar
Guide to U.S. architecture: 1940-1980 1 exemplar
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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)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- 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.
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- Obras
- 23
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 316
- Popularidade
- #74,771
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 3
- ISBN
- 15