J.J.P. Oud and the International Style: A Bio-Bibliography

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J.J.P. Oud was a famed modern architect; his European contemporaries are Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Oud, with the Dutch artist van Doesburg and Hungarian painter Vismos Huszar, and fellow architects Jan Wils and Bart van der Leck formed a collaboration between artists and architects; a movement that would later be called De Stijl, or the style. The loose knit group slowly disintegrated, but in terms of architectural style, the movement sought a unity between art and society that flirted with Constructivism, developed theories of Neoplasticism, and Cubism. Although these intellectualized theories seldom resulted in architectural realities, the realized projects were spectacular, and they include Oud's director's hut at the Oud-Matheness housing development, 1923 and the facade of the Cafe De Unie, Rotterdam, 1925. This annotated bibliography documents not only the literature on Oud but also Oud's own writings. A bibliographical essay examines the relationship between the placed afforded Oud in the international literature of architecture and traces his career.

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"This work will be useful to students and faculty studying the period of the style of [Oud's] architecture....This work is recommended for university and public libraries."-American Reference Books Annual
The bibliography contains concise and informative annotations.-Choice
This work will be useful to students and faculty studying the period of the style of [Oud's] architecture....This work is recommended for university and public libraries.-American Reference Books Annual
"The bibliography contains concise and informative annotations."-Choice

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DONALD LANGMEAD is Professor of Architectural History at the University of South Australia. His previous books include Willem Marinus Dudok, A Dutch Modernist: A Bio-Bibliography (Greenwood, 1996), Makers of 20th Century Modern Architecture: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook (Greenwood, 1997), and Dutch Modernism: Architectural Resources in the English Language (Greenwood, 1996).