Walter Netsch: A Critical Appreciation and Sourcebook

by Northwestern University Library

Overview

Northwestern University Library presents the first monograph devoted to the architect Walter Netsch, an early partner in Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and chief designer of prestigious commissions, including the U.S. Air Force Academy and Cadet Chapel. This illustrated book includes a detailed chronology, biography, essays about his work and field theory design aesthetics, statements by Netsch from 1954 to 2006, and a comprehensive, annotated bibliography of more than four hundred primary and secondary sources.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810125414
Publisher:	Northwestern University Press
Publication date:	05/01/2008
Edition description:	1
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	7.10(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

This book is a collaboration among many of Northwestern University Library's librarians, in particular Russell Clement, head of the Library's Art and Art History Department.

Table of Contents

Foreword   Walter Netsch     9
Preface     11
Acknowledgments     13
Chronology     15
Essays
Meeting Walter   Robert Bruegmann     23
Walter Netsch: A Biography   Russell Clement     27
A Timely Design: Walter Netsch and the United States Air Force Academy   Robert Allen Nauman     47
Field Theory: Walter Netsch's Design Methodology   Martin Felsen   Sarah Dunn     73
Walter Netsch: Five Imagined Histories   David Goodman     79
Statements   Walter Netsch     97
Annotated Bibliography
Primary Sources     131
Secondary Sources     139
Contributors     201
Index
General     205
Works by Netsch     229
Locations     233
Photography Credits     237

Editorial Reviews

"One of the highlights of the book is a short biography by Russell Clement, head of the art collection at the Netsch-designed Northwestern University Library. It's lucidly written and rich with telling details and anecdotes, like the story of how, in 1947, Netsch (just hired by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill) drove to the SOM-designed town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee 'in his Raymond Loewy-designed yellow Studebaker convertible, to which he had attached a propeller on the front as a joke.'"  —Blair Kamin

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