Walter Curt Behrendt

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Walter Curt Behrendt (*December 16, 1884, Metz - † April 26, 1945, Hanover) was a Lorraine-born German and American architect. He was an authority on city planning and housing.

Contents 1 Selected Literary works 2 External links 3 References 4 See also

[edit] Selected Literary works

• Alfred Messel, intro. Karl Scheffler. Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1911. Reprint: Gebr.Mann, Berlin 1998.
• Die einheitliche Blockfront als Raumelement im Stadtbau. Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1911.
• Der Kampf um den Stil im Kunstgewerbe und in der Architektur. Stuttgart, Berlin: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1920.
• Der Sieg des neuen Baustils. Stuttgart: Akademischer Verlag Dr. Fritz Wedekind & Co., 1927. Translated as: The Victory of the New Building Style, intro. Detlev Mertins, transl. Harry F. Mallgrave. Texts & Documents. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2000.
• Modern Building. Its Nature, Problems, and Forms. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1937.

[edit] External links

• Walter Curt Behrendt at the archINFORM database
• http://www.sah.org/oldsite06012004/aame/biob.html (short biography)

[edit] References

• Mertins, Detlef. "Introduction," in Behrendt, The Victory of the New Building Style, pp. 1-84.
• Samson, Miles David. "Lewis Mumford, Walter Curt Behrendt, and the Modern Movement in Germany," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 55, no. 2 (May 1996): 126-139.
• Gutschow, Kai Konstanty. "Revising the Paradigm: German Modernism as the Search for a National Architecture in the Writings of Walter Curt Behrendt." (M.Arch) Thesis, University of California at Berkeley, 1993.
• Scalvini, Maria-Luisa and Maria G. Sandri. L'immagine storiografica dell'architettura contemporanea da Platz a Giedion. Rome: Officina Edizione, 1984.

[edit] See also

• Alfred Messel (de:Alfred Messel)

• Walter Behrendt, Behrendt