J.J.P. Oud and the International Style: A Bio-Bibliography, Vol. 5 FROM THE PUBLISHER
J.J.P. Oud was a famed modern architect; his European contemporaries are Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. In Leiden in 1917, Oud, with the Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg and the expatriate Hungarian Vilmos Huszar, and fellow Hollanders Jan Wils and Bart van der Leck formed a collaboration between artists and architects a movement they called De Stijl. The loose knit group slowly disintegrated, but in terms of architectural style the movement sought a unity between art and society that flirted with Constructivism, developed theories of Neoplasticism, and what Oud called Cubism. Although these intellectualized theories seldom resulted in architectural realities, the realized projects were spectacular, and they include Oud's director's hut at the Oud-Mathenesse housing development, 1923, and the facade of the Cafe De Unie, Rotterdam, 1925. This annotated bibliography documents not only the literature on Oud but also Oud's own writings. A biographical essay, this book examines the place afforded Oud in the international literature of architecture and traces his career, which spanned fifty-seven years.
SYNOPSIS
A bibliographic guide to writings on and about the Dutch architect J.J.P. Oud.
FROM THE CRITICS
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Presents a bio-bibliography of a Dutch architect. An essay about the impact of foreign critical journalism on his fame introduces an annotated bibliography of international literature written from 1911 to the present, a guide to major and minor archival sources, a chronological list of works and projects, and a list of titles in his art and architecture library. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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