In Search of a Forgotten Architect

Stefan Seb?k was a Hungarian-born architect who worked with Walter Gropius in Dessau and Berlin in the late 1920s. The book is the result of the research of Seb?k's niece, Lilly Dubowitz, who has meticulously pieced together clues and details of her uncle's life. He went on to work with fellow Hungarian emigr? L?szl? Moholy-Nagy on his famous Light Prop, and later still moved to the Soviet Union to work with the constructivist architects Ginzburg, the Vesnin brothers and El Lissitzky. In between he carried out numerous projects of his own and found himself central to a key generation of emerging modern architects in Dresden, Berlin and Moscow. The book gives a compelling account of the gradual elucidation of a once forgotten architect. The text is accompanied not only by numerous illustrations of Seb?k's design work, but by essays on the Hungarian and Soviet context by historians Eva Forgacs and Richard Anderson.

Author: Lilly Dubowitz

Publisher: AA Publications

Publication Date: Jan 01, 2012

Number of Pages: 212 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 190789621X

ISBN-13: 9781907896217