The break with the past : avant-garde architecture in Germany, 1910-1925 / Deborah Ascher Barnstone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnstone, Deborah Ascher, author.

Series:

Routledge research in architecture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taut, Bruno, 1880-1938--Criticism and interpretation.

Taut, Bruno.

Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969--Criticism and interpretation.

Gropius, Walter.

Mendelsohn, Erich, 1887-1953--Criticism and interpretation.

Mendelsohn, Erich.

Scharoun, Hans, 1893-1972--Criticism and interpretation.

Scharoun, Hans.

Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969.

Mendelsohn, Erich, 1887-1953.

Scharoun, Hans, 1893-1972.

Taut, Bruno, 1880-1938.

Architecture--Germany--History--20th century.

Architecture.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics).

History.

Criticism and interpretation.

Germany.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Germany--History--20th century.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 213 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Architecture in transition: Germany's avant-garde in World War I and the Weimar Republic 1

2 Bruno Taut: before the war 19

3 Bruno Taut: war years' resistance 37

4 Bruno Taut: leading the avant-garde 50

5 Walter Gropius: career beginnings 67

6 Walter Gropius: war service on the Western Front 80

7 Walter Gropius: rise to prominence 89

8 Erich Mendelsohn: a born revolutionary 108

9 Erich Mendelsohn: the war years 122

10 Erich Mendelsohn: after the war 135

11 Hans Scharoun: Bremen and Berlin 155

12 Hans Scharoun: on the Eastern Front 161

13 Hans Scharoun: the interwar years 174

14 Art and the revolution 192.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138101609

1138101605

OCLC:

980858447