Title & Author:

The city crown by Bruno Taut / translated and edited by Matthew Mindrup, the University of Sydney, Australia, and Ulrike Altenmüller-Lewis, Drexel University, USA.

Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]

Description:

xiv, 188 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Series:

Ashgate studies in architecture series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-176) and index.
Introduction: advancing the reverie of utopia -- The new life: an architectonic apocalypse / Paul Scheerbart -- 40 examples: historic city crowns -- The city crown -- Epilogue: recent attempts at crowning cities / Bruno Taut -- Aufbau / Erich Baron -- Rebirth of architecture / Adolf Behne -- The dead palace: an architect's dream / Paul Scheerbart -- Afterword: The City Crown in the context of Bruno Taut's oeuvre.
Translated from the German.

Summary:

"This book is the first English translation of the German architect Bruno Taut's early twentieth century anthology Die Stadtkrone (The City Crown). Written under the influence of World War I, Taut developed The City Crown to promote a utopian urban concept where people would live in a garden city of 'apolitical socialism' and peaceful collaboration around a single purpose-free crystalline structure. Taut's proposal sought to advance the garden city idea of Ebenezer Howard and the aesthetic of Camillo Sitte's urban planning schemes by merging them with his own 'city crown' concept. The book also contains contributions by the Expressionist poet Paul Scheerbart, the writer and politician Erich Baron and the architectural critic Adolf Behne. Although the original German text was republished in 2002, only the title essay of The City Crown has previously been translated into English. This English translation of Taut's full anthology, complete with all illustrations and supplementary texts, fills a significant gap in the literature on early modern architecture in Germany and the history of urban design. It includes a translators' preface, introduction and afterword to accompany the original composition of essays, poems, designs and images. These original texts are accompanied by illustrations of Taut's own designs for a utopian garden city of 300,000 inhabitants and over 40 additional historic and contemporary examples."--Page [4] of cover.

ISBN:

9781472421999 (hardback ; alk. paper)
147242199X (hardback ; alk. paper)
(ebook)
9781472422002
(epub ; alk. paper)
9781472422019

Subject:

Taut, Bruno 1880-1938 Die Stadtkrone
City planning History.
City planning

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Taut, Bruno, 1880-1938.
Baron, Erich.
Behne, Adolf, 1885-1948.
Scheerbart, Paul, 1863-1915.
Mindrup, Matthew, editor.
Altenmüller-Lewis, Ulrike, 1971- editor.
Taut, Bruno, 1880-1938. Stadtkrone. English.
Ashgate studies in architecture series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290568
Call No.: BIB 233618
Status: Available