Erich Mendelsohn and the Architecture of German Modernism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Erich Mendelsohn and the Architecture of German Modernism write by Kathleen James. This book was released on 1997-07-13. Erich Mendelsohn and the Architecture of German Modernism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Erich Mendelsohn's buildings, erected throughout Germany between 1920 and 1932, epitomized architectural modernity for his countrymen. In this study, Kathleen James examines his department stores, office buildings and cinemas, the downtown counterparts to the famous housing projects built during the same years in Frankfurt and Berlin. Demonstrating the degree to which their dynamic presence stemmed from Mendelsohn's attention to their consumer-oriented functions, James shows Mendelsohn to be more than an Expressionist, as he is usually characterized.
The Early Sketches of German Architect Erich Mendelsohn (1887-1953)
The Early Sketches of German Architect Erich Mendelsohn (1887-1953) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Early Sketches of German Architect Erich Mendelsohn (1887-1953) write by Hans Rudolf Morgenthaler. This book was released on 1992. The Early Sketches of German Architect Erich Mendelsohn (1887-1953) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Erich Mendelsohn was considered one of the most successful modern architects in Germany during the 1920s. This volume contains a catalogue of his early sketches. It establishes a chronological sequence of the sketches, and furnishes a clear explanation of his creative background. A detailed evaluation of his relationship to the Blue Rider group supplies a source for his Expressionist intentions and design theory. Mendelsohn's own statements, from papers and letters are also examined.
German Architecture for a Mass Audience
German Architecture for a Mass Audience - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook German Architecture for a Mass Audience write by Kathleen James-Chakraborty. This book was released on 2002-09-06. German Architecture for a Mass Audience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book vividly illustrates the ways in which buildings designed by many of Germany's most celebrated twentieth century architects were embedded in widely held beliefs about the power of architecture to influence society. German Architecture for a Mass Audience also demonstrates the way in which these modernist ideas have been challenged and transformed, most recently in the rebuilding of central Berlin.
Modernism as Memory
Modernism as Memory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modernism as Memory write by Kathleen James-Chakraborty. This book was released on 2018-01-15. Modernism as Memory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After World War II, West Germans and West Berliners found ways of communicating both their recent sufferings and aspirations for stable communities through buildings that fused the ruins of historicist structures with new constructions rooted in the modernism of the 1910s and ‘20s. As Modernism as Memory illustrates, these postwar practices undergird the approaches later taken in influential structures created or renovated in Berlin following the fall of the Wall, including the Jewish Museum and the Reichstag, the New Museum and the Topography of Terror. While others have characterized contemporary Berlin’s museums and memorials as postmodern, Kathleen James-Chakraborty argues that these environments are examples of an “architecture of modern memory” that is much older, more complex, and historically contingent. She reveals that churches and museums repaired and designed before 1989 in Düren, Hanover, Munich, Neviges, Pforzheim, Stuttgart, and Weil am Rhein contributed to a modernist precedent for the relationship between German identity and the past developed since then in the Ruhr region and in Berlin. Modernism as Memory demonstrates that how one remembers can be detached from what one remembers, contrasting ruins with recollections of modernism to commemorate German suffering, the Holocaust, and the industrial revolution, as well as new spaces for Islam in the country.
The Break with the Past
The Break with the Past - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Break with the Past write by Deborah Ascher Barnstone. This book was released on 2017-08-15. The Break with the Past available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
