Esther McCoy (1904–1989)

Auteur 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 afficher plus 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." afficher moins

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Date de naissance: 1904-11-18
Date de décès: 1989-12-30
Sexe: female
Nationalité: USA
Lieu de naissance: Horatio, Arkansas, USA
Lieu du décès: Santa Monica, California, USA
Lieux de résidence: Santa Monica, California, USA
Études: University of Michigan (BA|1926)
Professions: Architectural Historian
critic
curator
essayist
Relations: Tobey, Berkeley Greene (husband)
Prix et distinctions: AIA National Honor Award for Excellence (1985)
Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity (1960)
Courte biographie: 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.