Main entry:

Barnstone, Deborah Ascher, author.

Title & Author:

The break with the past : avant-garde architecture in Germany, 1910-1925 / Deborah Ascher Barnstone.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
©2018

Description:

xii, 213 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

Routledge research in architecture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-208) and index.
Introduction: Architecture in transition: Germany's avant-garde in World War 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: a 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.

Summary:

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. The Break with the Past pursues several important, interrelated questions. What were the disparate war experiences of German architects and did they have different effects on Weimar cultural production? Did political orientation play a part in support for the war? In aesthetic choices? What changes occurred in avant-garde architectural practice after 1918? How do they compare with pre-war positions and practices and expectations for post-war outcomes? In order to address these questions, the book uses individual case studies of four leading architects, Bruno Taut, Walter Gropius, Erich Mendelsohn, and Hans Scharoun.

ISBN:

9781138101609 (hardback)
1138101605 (hardback)
(electronic book)
9781315656830
1315656833

Subject:

Taut, Bruno, 1880-1938 Criticism and interpretation.
Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969 Criticism and interpretation.
Mendelsohn, Erich, 1887-1953 Criticism and interpretation.
Scharoun, Hans, 1893-1972 Criticism and interpretation.
Taut, Bruno, 1880-1938 Critique et interprétation
Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969 Critique et interprétation
Mendelsohn, Erich, 1887-1953 Critique et interprétation
Scharoun, Hans, 1893-1972 Critique et interprétation
Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969.
Mendelsohn, Erich, 1887-1953.
Scharoun, Hans, 1893-1972.
Taut, Bruno, 1880-1938.
Gropius, Walter 1883-1969
Mendelsohn, Erich 1887-1953
Scharoun, Hans 1893-1972
Taut, Bruno 1880-1938
Avant Garde Musikgruppe
BMBF-Statusseminar
Architecture Germany History 20th century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Germany History 20th century.
Architecture Allemagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Avant-garde (Architecture) Allemgane Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Architektur
Germany.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Added entries:

Routledge research in architecture.

Avant-garde architecture in Germany, 1910-1925

Holdings:

Location: Library main 296882
Call No.: BIB 243200
Status: Available