1st Edition
The Break with the Past Avant-Garde Architecture in Germany, 1910 – 1925
By Deborah Ascher Barnstone
Copyright 2018
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.... Read more
- Introduction: Architecture in Transition: Germany’s Avant-garde before the First World I and the Weimar Republic
- Bruno Taut: Before the War
- Bruno Taut: War Years Resistance
- Bruno Taut: Leading the Avant-garde
- Walter Gropius: Career Beginnings
- Walter Gropius: War Service on the Western Front
- Walter Gropius: Rise to Prominence
- Erich Mendelsohn: Born Revolutionary
- Erich Mendelsohn: The War Years
- Erich Mendelsohn: After the War
- Hans Scharoun: Bremen and Berlin
- Hans Scharoun: On the Eastern Front
- Hans Scharoun: The Interwar Years
- Art and the Revolution
Biography
Deborah Ascher Barnstone is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.
