1st Edition

German Architecture for a Mass Audience

By Kathleen James-Chakraborty Copyright 2000
182 Pages 1 Color & 48 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

184 Pages 48 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

184 Pages 48 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book vividly illustrates the ways in which buildings designed by many of Germany's most celebrated twentieth century architects were embedded in widely held beliefs about the power of architecture to influence society. German Architecture for a Mass Audience also demonstrates the way in which these modernist ideas have been challenged and transformed, most recently in the rebuilding of... Read more
Acknowledgements. List of Illustrations. Chapter 1 - Space. Chapter 2 - Simplicity. Chapter 3 - Spirituality. Chapter 4 - Spectacle. Chapter 5 - Postwar Legacy. Chapter 6 - The New Berlin. Conclusion. Bibliography.

Biography

Kathleen James-Chakraborty