MODERNISM IN AMERICA 1937-1941
A CATALOG AND EXHIBITION OF FOUR ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITIONS

James D. Kornwolf (editor)

8.25 x 11 softcover book with 272 pages and 204 b/w illustrations. Catalog of an exhibition held at Wheaton College, Norton, MA; Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA; and, Goucher College, Towson, MD. Includes bibliographic references and artist biographies. This extraordinary book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in American institutional design.

Contents

• Lenders to the Exhibition
• Foreword by Glenn D. Lowry
• Preface by Walter L. Creese
• Introduction: The Competitions, the Thirties, and Architectural Issues Related to Them, Then and Now by James D. Kornwolf
• Wheaton College Competition for an Art Center by Thomas J. McCormick
• Goucher College Competition for a Campus development Plan and Library by James D. Kornwolf
• College of William and Mary Competition for a Festival Theatre and Fine Arts Center by James D. Kornwolf
• The Smithsonian Institution Competition for a Gallery of Art by Travis C. MacDonald
• Appendices include Competition Programs, Architects Known to Have Entered the Competitions, Resumes of Architects, Jurors, and Advisers Participating in the Competitions, and Museum of Modern Art Exhibitions of Competition Designs
• Index

Architects include Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Frank Lloyd Wright, John Russell Pope, Philip L. Goodwin, Edward Durell Stone, Eliel Saarinen, Raymond M. Hood and John Mead Howells, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Richard Neutra, Le Corbusier, Gordon Bunshaft, Richard M. Bennett and Caleb Hornbostel, Eero Saarinen, George Howe, Richard Neutra, George Fred Keck and William Keck, Stanford White, John C. B. Moore and Robert S. Hutchins, Pietro Belluschi, Wallace K. Harrison, Jacques-Andre Fouilhoux, William Lescaze, Eliot F. Noyes and Robert Woods Kennedy, Hugh Stubbins and Marc Peter, Jr., and Paul P. Cret among many others.

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