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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Modern at Midcentury: Ruhtenberg Revisited

Modern at Midcentury: Ruhtenberg Revisited

Freed, Elaine

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ISBN10: 1943829055
ISBN13: 9781943829057
Publisher: Rhyolite Pr Llc
Published: Feb 28 2017
Pages: 178
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.48 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe reign as the two most important modern architects of the 20th century. Remarkably, their considerable influences were felt in the city of Colorado Springs during the late 1940s - Wright's through the work of his granddaughter, Elizabeth Wright Ingraham, and Mies's in the oeuvre of A. Gustaf Jan Ruhtenberg. Elaine Freed, author of a book about Ingraham's signature houses, turns attention here to Jan Ruhtenberg's journey from Riga to Berlin, then Stockholm and New York, and finally to Colorado Springs, where he designed and remodeled dozens of houses and other structures in the Miesian mode. After placing Ruhtenberg's work in the context of European and American modernism, Freed focuses on five unique houses in Colorado Springs, ranging from a modest cottage to a spacious Italian villa. Her insightful view includes Ruhtenberg's own home in the exclusive Broadmoor neighborhood.

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