Life and Work of Jerzy Soltan - The Last Modernist Architect

This book is the first comprehensive monograph on Polish modern architect Jerzy Sötan's work including his designs, theory, and teachings in Poland and America based on extensive archival research and oral history interviews with former students.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

list of figures
acknowledgements
introduction
Sötan's essor: between Poland and the West
Sötan's mature years: international development
from theory to a new history for modern architecture
teaching of Jerzy Sötan
Jerzy Sötan's architecture: Poland
Jerzy Sötan's architecture: Harvard years
bibliography
index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Szymon Ruszczewski, architect, researcher, and scholar, graduated from the University of Florence and later received the Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield. He has taught design studios and humanities-based courses at the universities in Florence, Pisa, and Sheffield and at the Polytechnic of Milan, and he works as a registered architect in Florence. His work is concentrated on the themes related to modern architecture, history and heritage, and its conservation. He has earlier published his research on Alvar Aalto and his work in Italy, while this publication is based on his Ph.D. research on modern architect Jerzy Sötan.

Zusammenfassung

This book is the first comprehensive monograph on Polish modern architect Jerzy Soltan’s work including his designs, theory, and teachings in Poland and America based on extensive archival research and oral history interviews with former students.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Szymon Ruszczewski
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 11.12.2023
• EAN: 9781032559186
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3255918-6
• Seiten: 252
• Serie: Routledge Research in Architectural History
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Prose: non-fiction, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Poland, Individual architects & architectural firms, ARCHITECTURE / Individual Architects & Firms / General, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Interviews, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, History of Architecture, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Individual architects and architectural firms, Theory of architecture, Interviews / discussions