Abstract
Tamara Bjažic Klarin Ernest Weissmann: Socially Engaged Architecture, 1926–1939 Zagreb: Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2015, 350 pp., 226 b/w illus. $57 (paper), ISBN 9789531541893 Tamara Bjažic Klarin's Ernest Weissmann , published in both Serbo-Croatian and English, is the first scholarly monograph available on this little-known yet highly significant figure in the history of modern architecture and urbanism. Based on extensive archival research, Klarin, described here as a “longtime associate of the Croatian Museum of Architecture,” offers a definitive and well-illustrated account of Weissmann's European career before 1939. She has consulted many Serbo-Croatian language archives in Zagreb and elsewhere in the former Yugoslavia, as well as the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin and the Ernest Weissmann Archive, which is now available at the Frances Loeb Library, Harvard Graduate School of Design. Ernest Weissmann (1903–85) grew up in the Croatian capital of Zagreb, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He received his diploma in architecture there in 1926 from the Department of Architecture at the Technical School of Higher Education, today the University of Zagreb. In the late 1920s he moved to Paris and worked with Adolf Loos on the Tristan Tzara House in Montmartre (1927–29). With the help of Gabriel Guevrekian, Weissmann then joined Le Corbusier's atelier around the same time as Josep Lluis Sert, Charlotte Perriand, and Kunio Maekawa. These associates, all then working on the Centrosoyuz project in Moscow, would later be central figures in the Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne, founded in 1928. Once back …
Published Version
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a call