G E Kidder Smith

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For Giovanni Vito and Emanuele

Dates assigned in the captions of the photos are the dates when Kidder Smith took them.

The Archivio G. E. Kidder Smith is currently being processed in order to render it accessible to scholars in the future. In this book we use nomenclature regarding buildings and sites used by Kidder Smith himself. For his negatives he created a numerical filing system on the photos and in his pocket-size black photo journals (p. 258), which is evident in a few spreads of this book (for example the handwritten annotations in blue ink on p. 42).

The images that have been reproduced for this book have a specific electronic file that can be traced and requested only from the Università Iuav di Venezia, Archivio Progetti [Iuav AP]. For any further information, contact the author at amaggi@iuav.it or the Iuav AP at archivio.progetti@iuav.it

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Acknowledg­ ments p. 6

Books as Buildings p. 34

Foreword Michelangelo Sabatino p. 8

Architecture on Display p. 192

Introduction p. 18

Legacies p. 252 A Double Legacy p. 254 Coda Samuel P. Smith p. 264 In His Own Words p. 268 Bibliography p. 270 Archives p. 273 Index p. 274 Author and Contributors p. 279

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Fig. 6: Pier Luigi Nervi’s Exhibition Hall (Salone B), Turin, Italy, 1951

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Fig. 7: Pier Luigi Nervi’s Exhibition Hall (Salone C), Turin, Italy, 1951

G. E. Kidder Smith’s Reputational Shadow

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The Smiths in their Hillman Minx Drophead Coupé (Mark II) on a desert road in Tunisia, 1950

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ORO Editions G. E. Kidder Smith: The Itinerant Architectural Photographer par excellence

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Top: Woodland Crematorium and Cemetery, designed by Erik Gunnar Asplund, Stockholm, Sweden, 1946

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Bottom: City Theater, designed by David Helldén, Erik Lallerstedt, Sigurd Lewerentz, Malmö, Sweden, 1946

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Hagby Church, Småland, Sweden 1946

Sweden Builds

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Opposite page: Maps and sequenced slide viewpoints of Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Italy, 1950s

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This page: Maps and sequenced slide viewpoints of the Piazzetta of Portofino, Italy, 1959

Italy Builds

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ORO Editions The New Churches of Europe

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World Trade Center, designed by Minoru Yamasaki and Emery Roth, New York, NY, 1975

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One Liberty Plaza (US Steel Building), designed by SOM (Louis Skidmore, Nathaniel Owings, John O. Merrill), New York, NY, 1976

A Pictorial History of Architecture in America

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San Francisco de Asis, Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico, 1970

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ORO Editions Looking at Architecture

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Wolfsburg Cultural Centre, designed

by Alvar Aalto, Wolfsburg, Germany, 1962

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ORO Editions The Work of Alvar Aalto

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