Metadata: Eugene Charles Kent Papers
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Royal Institute of British Architects
- Holding institution (official language):
- Royal Institute of British Architects
- Postal address:
- British Architectural Library,Drawings and Archives Collections,Victoria and Albert Museum,Cromwell Road London Greater London United Kingdom SW7 2RL
- Reference number:
- KeE
- Title:
- Eugene Charles Kent Papers
- Title (official language):
- Eugene Charles Kent Papers
- Creator/accumulator:
- Kent, Eugene Charles
- Date(s):
- 1923/1977
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- German
- Extent:
- 2 boxes
- Scope and content:
- Eugene Charles Kent (Eugen Kaufmann)'s autobiographical memoir, written ca. 1977. These cover his childhood in Frankfurt-am-Main; schooldays in London and Berlin; architectural student days at Charlottenburg Technical University with vacation work for Herrmann Muthesius and Oskar Kaufmann (no relation); his experiences of trench warfare as a soldier in the First World War, first on Germany's eastern front in Poland and later on the western front in Belgium and France; his work as an assistant in Gustav Wolff's office at Halle, then at Magdeburg in the Town Planning Department run by Bruno Taut; his time in Walter Norden's office at Bolzano, Italy; his work on new housing and schools in Ernst May's City Architect's Department at Frankfurt-am-Main and his subsequent visit to May's group, known as the May Collective, in Moscow in 1931, followed by a period working as Chief Architect of Kharkov in the Ukraine.Also mentions the CIAM conferences he attended in the late 1920s and 1930s, his departure from Russia in 1933 and arrival in England, where he joined the MARS Group, became a naturalised British citizen and changed his name from Kaufmann to Kent; briefly covers his days in Welwyn Garden City, where he built himself a house and worked during the Second World War for Hertfordshire Council on housing for evacuees, and his post-war practice in London. 232 pages, typescript.
- Access points: locations:
- Berlin
- Frankfurt
- Great Britain
- Kharkov
- London
- Access points: persons/families:
- Kent, Eugene Charles
- Subject terms:
- Architecture
- Jewish soldiers
- Memoirs
- World War I
- Access, restrictions:
- Please request the materials you wish to consult in advance of your visit so that we can retrieve them for you. Due to the size of our collections, some items are housed offsite. Depending on the volume and condition of the material required, it may be possible to arrange access to our offsite store by prior appointment.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue see https://www.architecture.com/about/riba-library-and-collections
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25