Duke House and the Making of Modern New York

Lives and Afterlives of a Fifth Avenue Mansion
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-52103-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 374 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 880 g

Reihe: Brill Studies in Architectural and Urban History

Featuring new archival research and previously unpublished photographs and architectural plans, this volume fundamentally revises our understanding of the development of modern New York, focusing on elite domestic architecture within the contexts of social history, urban planning, architecture, interior design, and adaptive re-use. Contributions from emerging and established scholars, art historians, and practitioners offer a multi-faceted analysis of major figures such as Horace Trumbauer, Julian Francis Abele, Robert Venturi, and Richard Kelly. Taking the James B. Duke House, now home to NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, as its point of departure, this collection provides fresh perspectives on domestic spaces, urban forms, and social reforms that shaped early-twentieth century New York into the modern city we know today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Cohen, Jean-Louis

Berman, Daniella

Ritter, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Introduction

Jean-Louis Cohen, Daniella Berman, and Jon Ritter

Portfolio: Duke House

Maps: Mansions on the Upper East Side

1 The City Beautiful, Zoning, and Preservation on New York’s Upper East Side

Jon Ritter

2 A “Gilded Stall” for the Progressive Era: Fabricating Aristocracy on Fifth Avenue

Matthew Worsnick

3 Building in “Splendid Style”: Duke House and the Development of the Cook Block

Alisa Chiles

4 Beaux-Arts Architects and Their Mansions

Isabelle Gournay

5 Mr. Duke Builds His Dream House

Mosette Broderick

6 “Good Taste” and the Making of Duke House: Francophilia, Architecture, and Adaptation

Daniella Berman

7 Commissioning Interiors: Carlhian and Duveen at Duke House

Grace Chuang

8 Dukes to Profs: Robert Venturi’s primum opus on 78th Street

Jean-Louis Cohen

9 Renovation and Illumination: Richard Kelly at the Institute

Christie Mitchell

10 Preservation on the Cook Block: An Architect’s Perspective

Theodore Prudon

Select Bibliography

List of Illustrations

Index of Persons and Organizations

Index of Buildings and Places

Über Autor(innen)

Jean-Louis Cohen is the Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts. Trained as an architect and an art historian in Paris, Cohen has curated many exhibitions and published more than forty books.

Daniella Berman is an art historian and curator specializing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art. Trained at NYU's Institute of Fine Arts, Berman has contributed to various exhibitions and their publications including Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2022).

Jon Ritter is Clinical Professor in the Department of Art History, Urban Design and Architecture at New York University. President of the Society of Architectural Historian’s New York Chapter, Ritter holds a doctorate from NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts.