Egon Eiermann : Deutsche Olivetti, Frankfurt am Main / Fotografie = photography, Klaus Kinold ; text, Wolfgang Pehnt ; Herausgeber = editor, Klaus Kinold.

Munich : Hirmer Publishers, [2019]

71 pages : illustrations (some color), plans, portrait ; 32 cm

The ensemble with its prominent twin towers that Egon Eiermann (1904?1970) built in Frankfurt am Main for the Italian office machinery company Olivetti, was the Karlsruhe architect?s last major project. His priorities lay in the slender form, derived from the task, the construction and the material to create a characteristic silhouette.00Adriano Olivetti, the son of the company?s founder, valued not only the firm?s products, which became cult objects of Italianità in the field of design and which established the ?Stile Olivetti?. He also made the same demands regarding quality in architecture. The grandson, Roberto Olivetti, commissioned Eiermann, a famous representative of German postwar Modernism, to design the German branch offices. For the architect the project formed the culmination of his career, while for the Karlsruhe student Klaus Kinold it marked the beginning of a career as a photographer of architecture. He maintained that he had learned more for his future profession from his teacher Egon Eiermann than from anyone else.0.

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Eiermann, Egon, 1904-1970 Criticism and interpretation.
Eiermann, Egon, 1904-1970
Ing. C. Olivetti & c.
Office buildings Germany Frankfurt am Main Design and construction.
Office buildings Design and construction. Germany.
Buildings
Office buildings Design and construction
Frankfurt am Main (Germany) Buildings, structures, etc.
Germany Frankfurt am Main.
Germany

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Pehnt, Wolfgang, author.
Kinold, Klaus, 1939- photographer, editor.
Eiermann, Egon, 1904-1970. Works. Selections.
Egon Eiermann.
Egon Eiermann. English.

Deutsche Olivetti, Frankfurt am Main

Location: Library main 306785
Call No.: BIB 252332
Status: Available