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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
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Routledge Research in Architecture |
| Contents |
The Break with the Past- Front Cover; The Break with the Past; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction: Architecture in transition: Germany's avant-garde in World War I and the Weimar Republic; Background; Reactions to the war; Formation of the avant-garde; Chapter 2: Bruno Taut: before the war; Tradition and the vernacular; Influences: Nature, the Gothic, and Ancient Eastern architecture; Philosophical influences; Art and architecture; Architectural innovation; Color and architecture; Open to ideas, open to aesthetics |
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Chapter 3: Bruno Taut: war years' resistancePacifism; War monuments for the people; Visionary breakthrough: Stadtkrone and Alpine Architektur; Chapter 4: Bruno Taut: leading the avant-garde; Postwar publications; Ausstellung Unbekannte Architekten; The Crystal Chain; Taut in Magdeburg; Chapter 5: Walter Gropius: career beginnings; Thinking; Building; Chapter 6: Walter Gropius: war service on the Western Front ; Chapter 7: Walter Gropius: rise to prominence; Aesthetic movements; Expressionism; Art and industry; Functionalist projects; Chapter 8: Erich Mendelsohn: a born revolutionary |
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The Munich yearsBuilding technologies and a new architectural era; Fantasy sketches; Architecture and music; Chapter 9: Erich Mendelsohn: the war years; The war; Architecture; Ideas about art and artists; Chapter 10: Erich Mendelsohn: after the war; Building over drawing; The Einstein Tower; The hat factory; Horizontality and movement; A vision of modernity; Chapter 11: Hans Scharoun: Bremen and Berlin; Chapter 12: Hans Scharoun: on the Eastern Front; POWs and the Kruchen System; Cottbus; Supervision and administration; Crossen; Life in the camps; Looking ahead |
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Chapter 13: Hans Scharoun: the interwar yearsInterwar built work; Visionary schemes; Architectural thinking; Against technology, rationalism, and functionalism; Humanizing architecture through organic design; Chapter 14: Art and the revolution; Selected bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
"Between 1918 and 1933 the German interwar avant-garde was a primary force driving European cultural innovation and modernism. These innovations continue to influence artistic practice, theory, and arts education today, thus making a comprehensive study of the relationship between individual war experience and the immediate response of avant-garde architects after the war all the more important. The Break with the Past pursues several important, interrelated questions. What were the disparate war experiences of German architects and did they have different effects on Weimar cultural production? Did political orientation play a part in support for the war? In aesthetic choices? What changes occurred in avant-garde architectural practice after 1918? How do they compare with pre-war positions and practices, and expectations for post-war outcomes? In order to address these questions, the book uses individual case studies of four leading architects: Bruno Taut, Walter Gropius, Erich Mendelsohn, and Hans Scharoun. This is a valuable resource for academics and students in the areas of art and architecture history, German history and Cultural Studies, European Culture and Modernism."--Provided by publisher |
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Taut, Bruno, 1880-1938 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Mendelsohn, Erich, 1887-1953 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Scharoun, Hans, 1893-1972 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969 fast |
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Mendelsohn, Erich, 1887-1953 fast |
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Scharoun, Hans, 1893-1972 fast |
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Taut, Bruno, 1880-1938 fast |
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Architecture -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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Architecture
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Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315656830 |
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1315656833 |
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