Modern architecture in germany: between 1900 and 1933

Modern architecture in germany: between 1900 and 1933

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Published: 2004

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O objetivo da Dissertação é o estudo da Arquitetura Moderna Alemã, dascondições sociais, políticas e econômicas em que ela foi elaborada, de seusantecedentes teóricos e sua participação no Movimento Moderno. O períodoestudado neste trabalho abrange os trinta anos iniciais do século XX, até a chegadados Nazistas ao poder na Alemanha, em 1933. A Alemanha passou, em um espaçode tempo de 60 anos, por guerras e mudanças políticas profundas que unificaram opaís em 1870, transformaram-na em uma república democrática em 1918 e, com achegada dos Nazistas ao poder em 1933, em uma ditadura. A Primeira GuerraMundial afetou toda a Europa e, principalmente, a Alemanha derrotada, estabelecendo um marco divisor da produção arquitetônica. Além das questõespolíticas, trata-se de uma época marcada por profundas transformações da ciência eda tecnologia afetando as relações econômicas, as condições de trabalho, aindústria, a família, a vida humana individual e coletivamente, a cidade, os objetosda vida diária, desde os utensílios até a moradia. Os profissionais deste períodotiveram de dar conta desse novo conjunto de condições que passou a determinar omundo em que viveriam a partir de então. Esses anos foram definitivos para aarquitetura alemã e para a arquitetura moderna, não apenas pela incorporação denovas idéias, mas pelas atitudes práticas tomadas em relação aos problemascontemporâneos.


Luxury and Modernism

Luxury and Modernism

Author: Robin Schuldenfrei

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2018-06-05

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1400890489

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While modernism was publicized as a fusion of technology, new materials, and rational aesthetics to improve the lives of ordinary people, it was often out of reach to the very masses it purportedly served. Luxury and Modernism shows how luxury was present in bold, literal forms in modern designs—from lavish materials and costly technologies to deluxe buildings and household objects—and in subtler ways as well, such as social milieus and modes of living. In a period of social unrest and extreme wealth disparity between the common worker and those at the helm of capitalist enterprises generating immense profits, architects envisioned modern designs providing solutions for a more equitable future. Robin Schuldenfrei exposes the disconnect between modernism's utopian discourse and its luxury objects and elite architectural commissions. Despite the movement's egalitarian rhetoric, many modern designs addressed the desires of the privileged individual. Yet as Schuldenfrei demonstrates, luxury was integral not only to how modern buildings and objects were designed, manufactured, and sold, but has contributed to modernism's appeal to this day. This beautifully illustrated book provides a new interpretation of modern architecture and design in Germany during the heyday of the Bauhaus and the Werkbund, tracing modernism's lasting allure to its many manifestations of luxury. Schuldenfrei casts the work of legendary figures such as Peter Behrens, Walter Gropius, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in an entirely different light, revealing the complexities and contradictions inherent to modernism's promotion and consumption.


Luxury and Modern Architecture in Germany, 1900--1933

Luxury and Modern Architecture in Germany, 1900--1933

Author: Robin Schaefer Schuldenfrei

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Published: 2008

Total Pages: 624

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This dissertation examines the tension between the modern movement's theories and self-conceptions and its artistic output by studying the discourses of intellectuals and architects who framed the period debates and the architectural and domestic objects the movement produced. The lens through which it examines them is the period notion of luxury, rarely thought central to modernism given its interest in mass housing and mass production. The dissertation argues instead that modernism was conceived and sold through a combination of conformity to bourgeois expectations of luxury and redefinition of them--responding to and seeking to satisfy, but also reshape, the norms and desires of elites. It considers the foremost artists and architects of the period, who discussed the object's role in society while designing products, looking specifically at the design and marketing of electrical appliances by Peter Behrens at the AEG and in its Berlin stores, the relationship between consumption of Bauhaus objects and efforts at their mass production, and notions of interiority in the domestic commissions of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.


Architektur in Deutschland 1919-1939

Architektur in Deutschland 1919-1939

Author: John Zukowsky

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 266

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Such eclectic pluralism gives the lie to two widely held assumptions about modernist architecture in Germany: that it was synonymous with Bauhaus-style functionalism, and that it came to an abrupt end with the Nazis' accession to power in 1933.


Architecture and Politics in Germany, 1918-1945

Architecture and Politics in Germany, 1918-1945

Author: Barbara Miller Lane

Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 312

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In the spring of 1933, the Nazi government began its campaign to eliminate "modern" tendencies in German art--with particular emphasis on architecture--and to eradicate what it chose to call "art bolshevism." The Bauhaus, by then an internationally famous center of avant garde design, was shut down. In a close analysis of intellectual, political, social, and economic developments, Lane shows that Nazi views on architecture were generated by a complex of historical factors. Far from being cohesive, Nazi cultural policy was largely the product of the conflicting ideas about art held by the Nazi leaders and their efforts to advance these ideas during internal power struggles.


New Human, New Housing

New Human, New Housing

Author: Wolfgang Voigt

Publisher: Dom Publishers

Published: 2019-05

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9783869227214

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In the 1920s, an unprecedented program of architectural and cultural renewal was established in the German city of Frankfurt am Main. This scheme became inscribed in cultural history under the name "The New Frankfurt." Under the city's lord mayor, Ludwig Landmann, and the head of the municipal planning and building control office, Ernst May, modernity as a way of life took shape there: As part of the housing and urban development initiative decided in 1925, more than 10,000 new residential units were planned. The Building Ministry's architects, recruited from home and abroad, created pioneering work in many areas. Examples include the typification of family-oriented flats, plans for affordable apartments for those on low incomes, the first standard kitchen, the industrial prefabrication of building shells, the construction of schools designed around children's needs, and integrated urban and green planning. In this book, four essays delve into the cultural background of the scheme and provide illuminating insights into the context of the work of its many actors. Richly illustrated short texts highlight the most important topics, settlements, and buildings, and provide an overview of the New Frankfurt phenomenon. Each featured object includes the address and information on public transport links, inviting readers on a tour of the New Frankfurt.


The Path of Modernism

The Path of Modernism

Author: Gert Kähler

Publisher: Jovis Verlag

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783868590159

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Takes the reader on a journey in modern architecture, between Breslau and Dessau, from the World Cultural Heritage of the Centennial Hall (1913) to that of 1920s Bauhaus. This book illustrates an important chapter of German architectural history.


Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Germany

Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Germany

Author: Itohan Osayimwese

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2017-07-19

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 0822982919

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Over the course of the nineteenth century, drastic social and political changes, technological innovations, and exposure to non-Western cultures affected Germany's built environment in profound ways. The economic challenges of Germany's colonial project forced architects designing for the colonies to abandon a centuries-long, highly ornamental architectural style in favor of structural technologies and building materials that catered to the local contexts of its remote colonies, such as prefabricated systems. As German architects gathered information about the regions under their influence in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific—during expeditions, at international exhibitions, and from colonial entrepreneurs and officials—they published their findings in books and articles and organized lectures and exhibits that stimulated progressive architectural thinking and shaped the emerging modern language of architecture within Germany itself. Offering in-depth interpretations across the fields of architectural history and postcolonial studies, Itohan Osayimwese considers the effects of colonialism, travel, and globalization on the development of modern architecture in Germany from the 1850s until the 1930s. Since architectural developments in nineteenth-century Germany are typically understood as crucial to the evolution of architecture worldwide in the twentieth century, this book globalizes the history of modern architecture at its founding moment.


Modern Architecture

Modern Architecture

Author: Otto Wagner

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 0226869393

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In 1896, Otto Wagner's "Modern Architecture" shocked the European architectural community with its impassioned plea for an end to eclecticism and for a "modern" style suited to contemporary needs and ideals, utilizing the nascent constructional technologies and materials. Through the combined forces of his polemical, pedagogical, and professional efforts, this determined, newly appointed professor at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts emerged in the late 1890s - along with such contemporaries as Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Glasgow and Louis Sullivan in Chicago - as one of the leaders of the revolution soon to be identified as the "Modern Movement." Wagner's historic manifesto is now presented in a new English translation - the first in almost ninety years - based on the expanded 1902 text and noting emendations made to the 1896, 1898, and 1914 editions. In his introduction, Dr. Harry Mallgrave examines Wagner's tract against the backdrop of nineteenth-century theory, critically exploring the affinities of Wagner's revolutionary élan with the German eclectic debate of the 1840s, the materialistic tendencies of the 1870s and 1880s, and the emerging cultural ideology of modernity. Modern Architecture is one of those rare works in the literature of architecture that not only proclaimed the dawning of a new era, but also perspicaciously and cogently shaped the issues and the course of its development; it defined less the personal aspirations of one individual and more the collective hopes and dreams of a generation facing the sanguine promise of a new century