Lars Hopstock

Idyll and Ideology (eBook, PDF)

Hermann Mattern and the Landscape to Live In

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Produktbeschreibung

This first English-language biography of Hermann Mattern (1902-1971), one of Germany's principal twentieth-century landscape architects, critically assesses the idiosyncrasies of his organic-functionalist position while offering a new reading of German garden culture of his time. Mattern's work embodies several themes of the German landscape discourse as well as the central ambivalence of his generation: a life spanning the artistic avant-garde of the 1920s and an apparently apolitical career under the Nazi regime and in the postwar period. Based on comprehensive archival research, Hopstock's richly illustrated study uncovers the professional networks, debates, and rivalries that shaped the profession of landscape architecture in Germany during its formative decades.

• First English biography of landscape architect Hermann Mattern
• A new reading of German garden culture since 1900
• Formerly unpublished archival material and illustrations from rare published sources

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: JOVIS
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783986120597
• Artikelnr.: 72267337

Autorenporträt

Lars Hopstock is a junior professor of landscape architecture at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU). He has many years of professional practice and has been a research and teaching associate at various German universities since 2010. In 2015, he earned his doctorate from the University of Sheffield. His interests range from the philosophy of nature to current issues of urban open spaces. His research chiefly focuses on the landscape architecture of the twentieth century at the intersection of the history of ideas, architecture, gardens, and art.

Rezensionen

"Landschaftsarchitekturzählt nicht unbedingt zu den Schwerpunkten in der Redaktion BauNetz Meldungen. Wenn hier nun die Dissertation Idyll and Ideology. Hermann Mattern and the Landscape to Live In vorgestellt wird [...] muss das also gute Gründe haben. Der samtig geflockte Bucheinband in tiefstem Dunkelgrün und das dezent manierierte Design können es nicht sein, obwohl der Berliner Gestalter Harri Kuhn hier ein Buch gestaltet hat, das meilenweit von vielen akademischen Publikationen entfernt ist und bereits als Objekt sehr überzeugt. Vielmehr ist es Hermann Matterns überaus vielschichtige Biografie quer durch Weimarer Republik, Drittes Reich und Nachkriegsdeutschland, die dieses Buch empfehlenswert macht." (Gregor Harbusch in BauNetz)