Willem Marinus Dudok, A Dutch Modernist

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Willem Marinus Dudok, A Dutch Modernist A Bio-Bibliography

By Donald Langmead

ISBN: 0-313-29425-9

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-29425-9

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304 pages

Greenwood Press

Publication: 4/30/1996

List Price: $105.00 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

Subjects:

Architecture & Planning » Architecture

Series Title: Bio-Bibliographies in Art and Architecture

Series Number: 4

Description: This self-taught Dutch architect was among the most widely copied architects of the 1930s and 1940s. His international influence is all the more amazing when one considers that most of his architecture was built in the provincial town of Hilversum. Travel, word-of-mouth, and literature spread the news of his humane, modern approach to building design. The more than 1,200 bibliographic entries in this work are presented alphabetically by decades and further by genres. Each is summarized, described, and evaluated in the context of a critical overview of Dudok's career. Architectural scholars and students will profit from this comprehensive guide to the international literature on one of the most emulated champions of modern architecture. For too long, much was made in the English-language architectural literature of Germany's pioneer role in developing Modernism. That contribution was undeniably valuable, but the Dutch were unfairly overlooked; however, Dudok's work was not. Hilversum became a magnet for young foreign architects in the 1930s. He cast his spell upon much of continental Europe, the United States and Britain, and throughout the 1940s his style was so widely mimicked that a new adjective was coined: "dudoky." This volume will reintroduce the importance of Dudok's work to today's scholars and students.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Readers' Guide
Dudok: An Evaluation
Annotated Bibliography
Guide to Archives
List of Works
Index of Personal Names

LC Card Number: 95-46113

LCC Class: Z8245

Dewey Class: 016


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