Sitte, Hegemann and the metropolis : modern civic art and international exchanges / edited by Charles C. Bohl and Jean-François Lejeune.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bohl, Charles C.

Lejeune, Jean-François

Martin and Margy Meyerson Accession Fund for the Built Environment Collections.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sitte, Camillo, 1843-1903--Criticism and interpretation.

Sitte, Camillo.

Hegemann, Werner, 1881-1936--Criticism and interpretation.

Hegemann, Werner.

Hegemann, Werner, 1881-1936.

Sitte, Camillo, 1843-1903.

City planning--Philosophy.

City planning.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xix, 312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

Summary:

Sitte, Hegemann and the Metropolis brings together rich perspectives on the thought, practice and enduring legacy of leading figures from the great era of town planning and civic art from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The essays in this volume, from leading scholars in architectural history, architecture and urban design reveal the extraordinary and long-overlooked early modern work in city planning that included the practical application of timeless principles of urban design as well as innovation in the design and restructuring of blocks, streets and public spaces to accommodate massive social, economic and technological changes. The era was punctuated by two path-breaking publications, Camillo Sitte's Der Stadtebau published in 1889 and Werner Hegemann and Elbert Peets' The American Vitruvius: An Architects' Handbook of Civic Art published in 1922.

The first section of the book probes the origin and the impact of the picturesque and modern motifs in Sitte's thought and work, including some of his rarely discussed projects in Eastern Europe. The second section documents the rich international and interdisciplinary exchanges that propagated Sitte and his followers' thoughts within Europe and to the Americas. The last part analyzes Werner Hegemann's theory and, in particular, his response to the dynamic metropolitan context of the first half of the twentieth century. Together, the twenty essays resume the international dialog on modern civic art and reconsider Sitte, Hegemann and their peers-including Charles Buls, Monneret de Villard, Thomas Mawson, Gustavo Giovannoni, Marcel Poete, Cornelius Gurlitt, Albert Brinckmann, Otto Wagner, Adolf Loos, Daniel Burnham, Raymond Unwin, Elbert Peets, John Nolen and Charles Mulford Robinson-in light of contemporary movements in urban regeneration, livable community design, and sustainable development.

Contents:

Introduction: The never-ending debate / Charles C. Bohl and Jean-Franc̦ois Lejeune

Civic art then and now : the culture of good place-making / Charles C. Bohl

Camillo Sitte and the picturesque : precedents and perspectives: Vienna fin-de siècle : between artistic city planning and unlimited metropolis / Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani

Camillo Sitte as "Semperian" / Ruth Hanisch with Wolfgang Sonne

Camillo Sitte, architect and planner : the project for the Civic Center of Privoz/Oderfurt, Moravia / Marco Pogacnik

Schinkel, Sitte, and Loos : the "body in the visible" / Jean Franc̦ois Lejeune

Camillo Sitte : orders in reception / Stanford Anderson

Forced spontaneities : Camillo Sitte and the paradox of the picturesque / Ákos Moravánszky

Political connotations of the picturesque / Wolfgang Sonne

The pack donkey's revenge : Sitte and modernist urbanism / Alan J. Plattus

Artistic city planning versus junk space / Bernhard Langer

International exchange: Handbooks of civic art from Sitte to Hegemann / Donatella Calabi

Camillo Sitte across the Atlantic : Raymond Unwin, John Nolen, and Werner Hegemann / Crhstiane Crasemann Collins

Jacques Gréber's L'architecture aux États-Unis : a companion piece to The American vitruvius / Isabelle Gournay

The Latin American city and its Viennese planning approach : Karl Brunner in Chile and Colombia (1929-1948) / Andreas Hofer

Camillo Sitte and Werner Hegemann : challenges for a contemporary transatlantic bridging / HArald Kegler

The metropolitan context: The art of street architecture : the case of Manchester / Michael Hebbert

Dwelling in the metropolis : Sitte, Hegemann, and the international dissemination of reformed urban blocks 1890-1940 / Wolfgang Sonne

Paris seen by Hegemann : classicism, reform, and bad taste / Jean-Louis Cohen

Hegemann and modern public spaces / Corinne Jaquand

Hegemann's Das steinerne Berlin : a misunderstanding / Hans Stimmann.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Accession Fund for the Built Environment Collections.

ISBN:

9780415424066

0415424062

9780415424073

0415424070

OCLC:

212893716