The first publication to catalog the complete works of architect and arts advocate Alfred Preis, a Viennese modernist who fled Nazi-occupied Austria and transformed regional Hawaiian architecture, with his best-known project being the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor.
Architect, planner, and arts advocate Alfred Preis (1911–1994) dedicated his many creative talents to his beloved, adopted home, Hawai‘i. Born to a Jewish family, raised, and educated in Vienna, Preis became an exile after escaping from Nazi-occupied Austria in 1939 and briefly being interned as an “enemy alien” when the United States entered World War II. Preis emerged as one of Hawai‘i’s leading modern architects in the 1950s and 1960s. His celebrated architectural career spanned twenty-three years. In this time, he designed almost one hundred and eighty completed projects ranging from residences, schools, commercial buildings, and public parks. His new, regionalist vision for architecture and planning were specific to the Hawaiian context, its people, its tropical climate, and its stunning landscape. Preis’s crowning achievement was his design for the famed USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor in 1962.
This is the first publication to examine Alfred Preis’s body of work in architecture, which spans from 1939 to 1963, including not only several acclaimed public projects but also illustrating the transition from a European modern language into a regional modernism, unifying both cultures in distinct and pioneering ways.
In later years through his legislative work, Alfred Preis became a visionary advocate and leader for the public arts, creating the first 1% law in the United States, which stipulated that 1% of all public building construction be used for the purchase of public art.
Table des matières
Acknowledgements
Preface Axel Schmitzberger
Introduction Stephen Phillips
Refugee Axel Schmitzberger
Student Alfred Preis, The Formative Years in Vienna, 1932–1938 August J. Sarnitz
Apprentice Axel Schmitzberger
Pioneer Axel Schmitzberger
Developer Axel Schmitzberger
Space Maker Axel Schmitzberger
Modernist Alfred Preis and the Austrian Modernist Diaspora Shared Perspectives: The Wiener Wohnkultur and The New Space The Crisis of Modernism in Austria Christopher Long, Ph.D.
Advocate The USS Arizona Memorial — A Timeline 2Axel Schmitzberger
Correlator Alfred Preis and Frank Lloyd Wright: In the Nature of Materials Laura Mc Guire, Ph.D.
Art Czar Axel Schmitzberger
Work Overview Axel Schmitzberger and Laka Preis-Carpenter
Alfred Preis Biography
Bibliography
Image Credits
About the Authors
Index
A propos de l’auteur
Laura Mc Guire is a U.S.-based architecture and design historian. She is an Assistant Professor of Architectural History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of Architecture at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in architecture and design history and theory. She has also taught at the School of Architecture + Design at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and at the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned her Ph.D. in Architecture. Her research focuses on modernist American and Central European architecture and design of the interwar twentieth century, especially the role of Jewish émigrés and refugees on design theory and culture in the United States. She is currently writing a book on the architect Alfred Preis, a refugee from Nazi-occupied Austria, who designed some of Hawaii’s most significant examples of midcentury modern architecture. Her essays on Alfred Preis and Frederick Kiesler have appeared in numerous books and journals, including Docomomo Journal, Umění – Art, Interiors, The Routledge Companion to Art Deco (Routledge, 2019), Frederick Kiesler, Face to Face with the Avant-Garde: Essential Essays on Networks and Impact (Birkhäuser, 2018) Architectures of Display: Department Stores and Modern Retail (Routledge, 2017), Endless Kiesler (Birkhäuser, 2015), Frederick Kiesler: Theatervisionäre – Architekt – Künstler (KHM/ Brandstätter, 2012), and Norman Bel Geddes Designs America (Abrams, 2012). She also edited and translated the English edition of Ursula Prokop’s The Architects and Designers Jacques and Jacqueline Groag: Two Forgotten Émigré Artists of the Vienna Modern Movement (Doppel House Press, 2019).
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