Title & Author:

Philharmonie, Berlin 1956-1963 : Hans Scharoun / [editors, Wilfried Wang, Daniel E. Sylvester ; essays, Eva-Maria Barkhofen, Mack Scogin, Daniel E. Sylvester, Wilfried Wang].

Publication:

[Austin, Texas] : University of Texas at Austin, Center for American Architecture and Design ; Berlin : Akademie der Künste, [2013]
Tübingen, Germany : Distributor in Europe, Ernst Wasmuth Verlag ; New York, New York : Distributor in the United States and Canada, D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
©2013

Description:

256 pages : illustrations (some color), plans (some color), portraits ; 22 x 30 cm.

Series:

O'Neil Ford monograph ; 5

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Space, humans, music / Eva-Maria Barkhofen -- The lightness of democracy / Wilfried Wang -- Competition drawings & models : Bundesallee -- Construction drawings, models & photographs : Tiergarten -- Scaled drawings -- The scalloped edge, gold lamé and the resonant plan / Mack Scogin -- Consonance & resonance / Daniel E. Sylvester -- Historic & contemporary photographs.

Summary:

"Rising with its golden roof from the self-inflicted ashes of World War II, right at the center of the remains of Hitler's megalomaniac World Capital Germania, the new concert hall for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra has become the symbol of another Germany: a newly democratized nation that sought to reshape itself with the help of cultural experiences. Today, the Philharmonie is the nucleus of Berlin's Kulturforum with five museums, two concert venues and the state library, the West's response during the Cold War to the Museum Island on the east of Berlin. Hans Scharoun's design for the Philharmonie is without precedent. It became the paradigm for numerous concert halls all over the world, but none has ever come close to the Philharmonie's conceptual, compositional, constructional, social and synesthetic experiential integrity"--Back cover.

ISBN:

9783803007582 (paperback)
3803007585 (paperback)

Subject:

Scharoun, Hans, 1893-1972.
Philharmonie (Berlin, Germany)
Music-halls Germany Berlin.
Salles de concert Allemagne Berlin.
Buildings
Music-halls
Berlin (Germany) Buildings, structures, etc.
Germany Berlin

Added entries:

Wang, Wilfried, editor, writer of added commentary.
Sylvester, Daniel E., editor, writer of added commentary.
Barkhofen, Eva-Maria, writer of introduction.
Scogin, Mack, writer of added commentary.
O'Neil Ford monograph ; 5.

Hans Scharoun

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 283767
Call No.: BIB 222174
Status: Available