Gottfried Böhm
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In 1986, when Gottfried Böhm won the Pritzker Prize, the award was only a few years old, but it was already regarded as the greatest international accolade in architecture. Böhm, the first and only German ever to receive the prize, was honored by the Pritzker committee in part for his work from the 1950s and 60s, which was almost exclusively devoted to the construction(...)
Gottfried Böhm
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In 1986, when Gottfried Böhm won the Pritzker Prize, the award was only a few years old, but it was already regarded as the greatest international accolade in architecture. Böhm, the first and only German ever to receive the prize, was honored by the Pritzker committee in part for his work from the 1950s and 60s, which was almost exclusively devoted to the construction and reconstruction of churches. Böhm's Pilgrimage Church in Neviges, Germany (1964-68), for example, is a crystalline ecclesiastical building modeled in exposed concrete, and a beautiful example of Böhm's virtuosity. In Böhm's work of this era, the utopian ideas of Expressionist architects, who had dreamed of massive buildings that would generate a sense of community, found a late and surprising outlet in the bosom of the Catholic Church.
Architecture Monographs
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Homosexuality is still a taboo subject in architectural history. When historical architectural personalities have lived outside the heterosexual norm, their private lives are readily shrouded in obscurity. As long as penal laws endured, social existence was constantly threatened, and hiding was a necessity. Defensive strategies were needed to protect themselves. To track(...)
Gay architects: Silent biographies from 18th to 20th century
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Homosexuality is still a taboo subject in architectural history. When historical architectural personalities have lived outside the heterosexual norm, their private lives are readily shrouded in obscurity. As long as penal laws endured, social existence was constantly threatened, and hiding was a necessity. Defensive strategies were needed to protect themselves. To track down these outsiders of the past, historical sources must be read queerly. This volume brings together 35 portraits of gay architects from the Baroque era to the modern age in North America, Europe and Palestine, presenting surprising biographies, admirable houses and, not infrequently, intelligently designed refuges with which the protagonists protected their private lives. Featured architects include: Stanford White, Ralph Adams Cram, Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, Bruce Goff, Charles Moor, Lionel Pries, Barry Dierks, William Alexander Levy, Paul Rudolph, Horace Gifford, Luis Barragán, Geoffrey Bawa, Horace Walpole and more.
Architectural Theory
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In the 1920s, an unprecedented program of architectural and cultural renewal was established in the German city of Frankfurt am Main. This scheme became inscribed in cultural history under the name ''The New Frankfurt.'' As part of the housing and urban development initiative decided in 1925, more than 10,000 new residential units were planned. The Building Ministry’s(...)
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New human, new housing: architecture of the New Frankfurt 1925-1933
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In the 1920s, an unprecedented program of architectural and cultural renewal was established in the German city of Frankfurt am Main. This scheme became inscribed in cultural history under the name ''The New Frankfurt.'' As part of the housing and urban development initiative decided in 1925, more than 10,000 new residential units were planned. The Building Ministry’s architects, recruited from home and abroad, created pioneering work in many areas. Examples include the typification of family-oriented flats, plans for affordable apartments for those on low incomes, the first standard kitchen, the industrial prefabrication of building shells, the construction of schools designed around children’s needs, and integrated urban and green planning. In this book, four essays delve into the cultural background of the scheme and provide illuminating insights into the context of the work of its many actors.
Paul Bonatz: 1877-1956
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Spanning Germany's modernist era and its Empire days to the postwar Federal Republic of Germany, the glittering career of Paul Bonatz (1877-1956) is studded with stylistically disparate gems. Bonatz was famed as a designer of industrial and civic architecture; his best known work is the Stuttgart railway station (1911-27). This volume surveys his career.
Paul Bonatz: 1877-1956
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Spanning Germany's modernist era and its Empire days to the postwar Federal Republic of Germany, the glittering career of Paul Bonatz (1877-1956) is studded with stylistically disparate gems. Bonatz was famed as a designer of industrial and civic architecture; his best known work is the Stuttgart railway station (1911-27). This volume surveys his career.
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