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Topographies of class : modern architecture and mass society in Weimar Berlin / Sabine Hake.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hake, Sabine, 1956-
- Series:
- Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Germany--Berlin--History--20th century.
- Architecture.
- Germany--Berlin.
- History.
- Mass society.
- Berlin (Germany)--History--1918-1945.
- Berlin (Germany).
- Berlin (Germany)--Buildings, structures, etc.
- Berlin (Germany)--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 323 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2008.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In Topographies of Class, Sabine Hake explores why Weimar Berlin has had such a powerful hold on the urban imagination. Approaching Weimar architectural culture from the perspective of mass discourse and class analysis, Hake examines the way in which architectural projects; debates; and representations in literature, photography, and film played a key role in establishing the terms under which contemporaries made sense of the rise of white-collar society.
- Focusing on the so-called stabilization period, Topographies of Class maps out complex relationships between modern architecture and mass society, from Martin Wagner's planning initiatives and Erich Mendelsohn's functionalist buildings, to the most famous Berlin texts of the period, Alfred Doblin's city novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929) and Walter Ruttmann's city film Berlin, Symphony of the Big City (1927). Hake draws on critical, philosophical, literary, photographic, and filmic texts to reconstruct the urban imagination at a key point in the history of German modernity, making this the first study-in English or German-to take an interdisciplinary approach to the rich architectural culture of Weimar Berlin.
- Contents:
- Setting the scene : Weimar Berlin, circa 1920
- Mapping Weimar society : on masses, classes, and white-collar workers
- Organizing the modern masses : new building in Weimar Berlin
- Walking in the metropolis : the city texts of Franz Hessel and Siegfried Kracauer
- Picturing the new Berlin : photography, architecture, and modern mass society
- Deconstructing modern subjectivity : on Berlin Alexanderplatz
- Reconstructing modern subjectivity : on Berlin, symphony of the big city.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-312) and indexes.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472070381
- 047207038X
- 9780472050383
- 0472050389
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.332792
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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