Esther McCoy (1904–1989)

Autor de 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 mostrar más 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." mostrar menos

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Five California Architects (1975) 103 copias

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

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

Piecing Together Los Angeles: An Esther McCoy Reader (2012) 15 copias

Craig Ellwood. Architecture (1968) 15 copias

The Second Generation (1984) 11 copias

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown 1 copia

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

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

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

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

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

Francisco Artigas 1 copia

Irving Gill, 1870 - 1936 1 copia

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Fecha de nacimiento: 1904-11-18
Fecha de fallecimiento: 1989-12-30
Género: female
Nacionalidad: USA
Lugar de nacimiento: Horatio, Arkansas, USA
Lugar de fallecimiento: Santa Monica, California, USA
Lugares de residencia: Santa Monica, California, USA
Educación: University of Michigan (BA|1926)
Ocupaciones: Architectural Historian
critic
curator
essayist
Relaciones: Tobey, Berkeley Greene (husband)
Premios y honores: AIA National Honor Award for Excellence (1985)
Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity (1960)
Biografía breve: 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.