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Notes

^1. John Peter, The Oral History of Modern Architecture: Interviews with the Greatest Architects of the Twentieth Century (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994).

^2. Julian Holder, “Modernist ‘Heroes’ with Little to Say,” The Architects' Journal (March 1995): 45.

^3. Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, Philip Johnson, Louis Kahn, Le Corbusier, Pier Luigi Nervi, Richard Neutra, Oscar Niemeyer, J. J. P. Oud, I. M. Pei, Eero Saarinen, Josep Lluís Sert, Kenzo Tange, Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright.

^4. The Frankfurter Küche was designed in 1926 by Austrian architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky for architect Ernst May's social housing project Das Neue Frankfurt in Frankfurt, Germany.

^5. John Summerson, “Bread & Butter and Architecture,” Horizon (October 1942): 233–43.

^6. In Swedish Modernism: Architecture, Consumption and the Welfare State, Helena Mattsson and Sven-Olov Wallenstein launch a plea for the conception of “multiple modernities” to deconstruct the well-known story of modernism into several (national) narratives. These narratives, they argue, might resonate with the existing anthology of modernism or could, conversely, oppose common assumptions. See Swedish Modernism: Architecture, Consumption and the Welfare State, eds. Helena Mattson and Sven Olov-Wallenstein (London: Black Dog, 2010).

^7. Janina Gosseye, Naomi Stead and Deborah van der Plaat, “Lost in Conversation: Constructing the Oral History of Modern Architecture,” accessed September 9, 2014, http://lostinconversationconference.wordpress.com/.

^8. See Lynn Abrams, Oral History Theory (London and New York: Routledge, 2010); Charles T. Morrissey, “Oral History Interviews: From Inception to Closure,” in Handbook of Oral History, eds. Thomas L. Charlton, Lois E. Myers and Rebecca Sharpless (Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2007); Mary A. Larson, “Research Design and Strategies,” in Handbook of Oral History, eds. Charlton, Myers and Sharpless, 121–22; and Donald A. Ritchie, Doing Oral History: A Practical Guide, 2^nd edn (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), 55–56.

^9. This attention to clothing is something that struck me regularly when I interviewed architects. A particularly memorable instance occurred when I interviewed Haig Beck for the “Oral History of Queensland Postwar Architecture” project. For the interview, Beck wore a sleekly designed black shirt, whereas the day before – when I met him to arrange an interview time – he was dressed quite casually; more in tune with the climatological circumstances of the hot and humid days of Queensland summer. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v = zl9Hk6XJJyw, accessed September 9, 2014.