Architect: Theodore Conrad
The Architectural Models of Theodore Conrad: The ‘Miniature Boom’ of Mid-century Modernism (2021) – Review
25 January 2022
The Architectural Models of Theodore Conrad: The ‘Miniature Boom’ of Mid-century Modernism (2021) – Review25 January 2022
The historian and curator Teresa Fankhänel’s latest book and first monograph, The Architectural Models of Theodore Conrad: The ‘Miniature Boom’ of Mid-Century Modernism, takes a slightly different tack to the recent spell of research about models that has appeared on the shelves of historians and architects alike. For one, Fankhänel… Read More
Theodore Conrad and Harvey Wiley Corbett
11 November 2018
Theodore Conrad and Harvey Wiley Corbett11 November 2018
– Jennifer Gray and Irene Sunwoo
The fragment of Theodore Conrad’s 1929 cardboard model of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company tower designed by Harvey Wiley Corbett (1873–1954) — featured in the current exhibition Model Projections at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery at Columbia GSAPP — marks an early episode in the American model maker’s career and an experimental… Read More