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- Title
EUROPE MEETS AMERICA. WILLIAM LESCAZE AND THE FIRST NEW YORK PUBLIC HOUSING PROGRAMS (1930-1939).
- Authors
Caramellino, Gaia
- Abstract
The article explores the Swiss-American architect William Lescaze’s activity in New York during the New Deal, to investigate the influence of architectural forms, schemes and ideals originally conceived for European collective housing during the 1920s on the shaping of new governmental regulation. The author also analyzes the significance of Lescaze's involvement with federal housing agencies such as the Housing Study Guild (HSG), the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and the Federal Housing Authority (FHA), acknowledged with his appointment as chief-designer of the first federal limited-income housing project built in New York in 1935.
- Subjects
NEW York (N.Y.); UNITED States; LESCAZE, William, 1896-1969; HOUSING; ARCHITECTS &; housing developers; URBAN planning; CONGREGATE housing; PUBLIC housing; HOUSING assistance agencies
- Publication
Città e Storia, 2010, Vol 5, Issue 2, p347
- ISSN
1828-6364
- Publication type
Article