Robert Damora and the mission of American architecture
| Autor: | Karla Cavarra Britton |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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| Zdroj: | The Journal of Architecture. 21:995-1011 |
| ISSN: | 1466-4410 1360-2365 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13602365.2016.1229687 |
| Popis: | In the United States of the 1950s, many architects, artists and historians were engaged with issues surrounding the nature of an authentic American architecture, and their professional responsibility to define its contours and potential. These issues included questions about the relationship of design to a democratic society and the expressive possibilities of architectural monumentality. This essay examines the contribution made by the master architectural photographer Robert Damora (1912–2009) with his wife Sirkka (b. 1924) to the development of a response to these concerns. It addresses his part in shaping American modern design through: his documentation of the work of prominent American modern architects and designers such as Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, Eero Saarinen, I. M. Pei, Florence Knoll, Edward Durrell Stone, Paul Rudolph and Philip Johnson; post-war studies of new housing types and innovative concrete construction; photographic interpretations of corporate work such as the Hancock Tower in... |
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