Esther McCoy (1904–1989)

Autor von Five California Architects

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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 mehr anzeigen 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." weniger anzeigen

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Five California Architects (1975) 102 Exemplare

Case Study Houses: 1945-1962 (1977) 73 Exemplare

Richard Neutra (1960) 50 Exemplare

Vienna to Los Angeles : Two Journeys (1979) 19 Exemplare

Craig Ellwood. Architecture (1968) 15 Exemplare

Piecing Together Los Angeles: An Esther McCoy Reader (2012) 14 Exemplare

The Second Generation (1984) 11 Exemplare

Masters of World Architecture : Five Volumes : Water Gropius : Richard Neutra : Louis Sullivan : Oscar Niemeyer : Eric… (1960) 7 Exemplare

Guide to U. S. Architecture , 1940-1980 (1982) 5 Exemplare

One California Architect, Irving J. Gill (2020) 4 Exemplare

Masters of the World Architure : RICHARD NEUTRA (1960) 3 Exemplare

Richard Neutra: Masters of World Architecture Series (2012) 2 Exemplare

Modern California houses; case study houses, 1945-1962 2 Exemplare

Modern California Houses: Case Study Houses 1945 - 1962 2 Exemplare

Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown 1 Exemplar

Irving Gill, 1870 - 1936 1 Exemplar

Five California Architects. Greene & Greene, Maybeck, Schindler, Gill (1960) 1 Exemplar

Craig Ellwood: Architecture (California Architecture & Architects) (1997) 1 Exemplar

10 Italian architects; an exhibition organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art under the direction of Esther… 1 Exemplar

Francisco Artigas 1 Exemplar

Roots of California contemporary architecture : [an ex[h]ibition of the work of Irving Gill, Greene & Greene, Bernard… 1 Exemplar

Craig Ellwood 1 Exemplar

Guide to U.S. architecture: 1940-1980 1 Exemplar

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The Best American Short Stories 1950 (1950) — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare

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Geburtstag: 1904-11-18
Todestag: 1989-12-30
Geschlecht: female
Nationalität: USA
Geburtsort: Horatio, Arkansas, USA
Sterbeort: Santa Monica, California, USA
Wohnorte: Santa Monica, California, USA
Ausbildung: University of Michigan (BA|1926)
Berufe: Architectural Historian
critic
curator
essayist
Beziehungen: Tobey, Berkeley Greene (husband)
Preise und Auszeichnungen: AIA National Honor Award for Excellence (1985)
Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity (1960)
Kurzbiographie: 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.