Modernism and the Spirit of the City (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Whyte, Iain Boyd

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This selection of groundbreaking essays offers a significant and long overdue reassessment of the aims and intentions of European architecture and urbanism over the period 1880-1960.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135158675
• Artikelnr.: 42828780

Autorenporträt

Iain Boyd Whyte is Professor of Architectural History at the University of Edinburgh. He has written extensively on early-modernist history and theory, with books on Bruno Taut, Hendrik Petrus Berlage, and the school of Otto Wagner. Among his current projects is an anthology of texts on the German-speaking metropolis, 1880-1940.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part I Geist. 1.From locus genii to Heart of the City:
Embracing the Spirit of the City. 2. Straight or Crooked Streets? The
Contested Rational Spirit of the Modern Metropolis. 3. August Endell: The
Spirit and the Beauty of the City. Part II Place. 4. Embodying the Spirit
of the Metropolis: the Warenhaus Wetheim, Berlin. 5. The Hamburg Bismarck
as City Crown and National Monument. 6. The Lantern and the Glass: On the
Themes of Renewal and Dwelling in Le Corbusier's Purist Art and
Architecture. Part III Faith. 7. "Cities More Fair to Become the Dwelling
Place of Thy Children": Transcendent Modernity in British Urban
Reconstruction. 8. Privet: Theologies of Privacy in Some Modernist
Urbanism. 9. Rudolf Schwarz, the Hochstadt and the Reconstruction of
Cologne. Bibliography. Index.