ABSTRACT
By tracing how Lonberg-Holm´s worldview formed as a groundbreaking figure of the new objectivity and international constructivism, in Germany and transformed through his direct engagement with American technological culture, once he emigrated in 1923, this chapter argues that in his photographs, pedagogy, and projects he sought to merge European spatial complexity within American time-based processes, making him an ideal correspondent for a network of radical journals, and CIAM. This chapter sets the stage for his participation in a very different vanguard--the SSA in 1932--by demonstrating how he planned to plot a course for functionalism in America.
