Tag: modern architecture

Essay by DoppelHouse PressJun 26, 20258:38 pm

Advocacy and the Architecture of Barbara Goldberg Neski 1928–2025

By Susan Horowitz
“Barbara Neski was an inspirational figure to so many, and shaped the Hamptons at a special time.” —Paul Goldberger
Initially studying art, art history, and mathematics at Bennington, Barbara Goldberg was inspired to become an architect after viewing Marcel Breuer’s Robinson House. This led her to choose the Bauhaus-oriented Harvard GSD program created by director Walter Gropius, becoming one of its first women graduates in 1952. There, she was especially drawn to the teaching of Buckminster Fuller.

Art by DoppelHouse PressMay 1, 202312:00 pm

FROM WHITE CITY MODERNISM TO L.A. VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE

by Susan Horowitz

Through an international project about Bauhaus-influenced architecture that has been rediscovered, I came to focus on Ben-Ami Shulman (b. Jaffa 1907–d. Los Angeles 1986), who was posthumously recognized …

Architecture by DoppelHouse PressApr 17, 201910:29 pm

Modern Architecture’s Legacy in a Renaissance-era Czech City

By Monica Strauss

Around the turn of the century in Olmütz, a small town in the Czech Republic, (known as Olomouc in present day) a Jewish community flourished. With its impeccable examples of Gothic and Baroque architecture and connection to the Hapsburg Empire, it was known as the “Moravian Rome”. However, its young people were increasingly turning to cosmopolitan Vienna for intellectual stimulation. When the onset of World War I sent many of them home to Olmütz, they tried to maintain that high level of cultural exchange they had experienced in the Kaiserstadt.