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In the Wake of War
In 1945 Germany's cities lay in ruins, destroyed by Allied bombers `hat left major architectural monuments badly damaged and much of the housing stock reduced to rubble. At the war's end, observers thought that it would take forty years to rebuild, but by the late 1950s West Germany's cities had risen anew. The housing crisis had been overcome and virtually all important monuments reconstructed, and the cities had reclaimed their characteristic identities. Everywhere there was a mixture of old and new: historic churches and town halls stood alongside new housing and department stores; ancient street layouts were crossed or encircled by wide arteries; old city centers were balanced by garden ...
High-Density Housing
In view of the growing number of diverse life styles, the search for flexible, adaptable floor plans has become a fundamental issue in residential building. That the continued demand in urban centres can only be responsibly satisfied by high-density housing is undisputed. More than ever before, building high-density housing is a diverse and challenging task for planners and architects. This book presents international projects which document the complexity of the task, from the design of the floor plans, the development and use of resources, to the use of economically beneficial building systems. The high quality of the architecture and construction in such residential areas can be clearly seen in the uniform illustrations of the floor plans, and large-scale drawings of details. The introductory contributions discuss extensively the topic of floor plan design and development. This book is a comprehensive review of the current state of residential building, the perspectives and future developments.
Munich and Memory
Munich, notorious in recent history as the capital of the Nazi movement, is the site of Gavriel Rosenfeld's stimulating inquiry into the German collective memory of the Third Reich. Rosenfeld shows, with the aid of a wealth of photographs, how the city's urban form developed after 1945 in direct reflection of its inhabitants' evolving memory of the Second World War and the Nazi dictatorship. In the second half of the twentieth century, the German people's struggle to come to terms with the legacy of Nazism has dramatically shaped nearly all dimensions of their political, social, and cultural life. The area of urban development and the built environment, little explored until now, offers visi...
Romantic Modernism
In the world of architectural conservation, there is little tolerance for reconstructing or even protecting historic facades when everything behind is modern, and even less for reconstructing a building that has been completely destroyed. These offenses are considered lies against history. In this thoughtful, revealing work, conservation expert Wim Denslagen traces this predilection for honesty to the legacy of Functionalism, a Romantic-era movement that denounced the building of pseudo-architecture in favor of a new, rational form of building. With detailed analyses of headline-making restoration projects from Bruges to Berlin, Denslagen shows that the adoption of these romantic values by conservationists gave rise to a new wave of modern additions and transformations.
The Bauhaus and America
"After the Bauhaus's closing in 1933, many of its protagonists movd to the United States, where their acceptance had to be cultivated. In this book Margret Kentgens-Craig shows that the fame of the Bauhaus in America was the result not only of the inherent qualities of its concepts and products, but also of a unique congruence of cultural supply and demand, of a consistent flow of information, and of fine-tuned marketing. Thus the history of the American reception of the Bauhaus in the 1920s and 1930s foreshadows the paterns of fame-making that became typical of the post-World War II art world."--BOOK JACKET.
American Architectural History
This major new text presents a collection of recent writings on architecture and urbanism in the United States, with topics ranging from colonial to contemporary times. In terms of content and scope, there is no collection, in or out of print, directly comparable to this one. The essays are drawn from the past twenty years' of publishing in the field, arranged chronologically from colonial to contemporary and accessible in thematic groupings, contextualized and introduced by Keith Eggener. Drawing together 24 illustrated essays by major and emerging scholars in the field, American Architectural History is a valuable resource for students of the history of American art, architecture, urbanism, and material culture.
"Der Amtssitz der Opposition"?
Bereits zehn Jahre vor dem gescheiterten Staatsstreichversuch vom 20. Juli 1944, im Sommer 1934, gab es einen Versuch von Kräften innerhalb des Regierungsapparates des Deutschen Reiches, das nationalsozialistische Regime gewaltsam zu stürzen. Ihr organisatorisches Zentrum hatten diese Pläne in der Dienststelle von Franz von Papen, dem konservativen Vizekanzler und gescheiterten „Beaufsichtiger“ Adolf Hitlers während der ersten eineinhalb Jahre seiner Regierungszeit. Den Kern dieser Verschwörung, von der Papen selbst nichts wusste, bildeten der Münchener Schriftsteller Edgar Jung (Papens Redenschreiber), der Nachrichtendienstler Herbert von Bose (Papens Pressechef), Boses rechte Han...
Walter Rossow (1910-1992)
Walter Rossow, neben seiner planerischen Tätigkeit Hochschullehrer in Berlin und Stuttgart, hat 1991 dem Baukunstarchiv der Akademie der Künste, Berlin, seinen umfangreichen beruflichen Nachlass übergeben. Für die Erforschung der jüngeren Professionsgeschichte der Landschaftsarchitektur stellen derartige, in ihrem Kontext erhaltene Archivalien eine aufschlussreiche Quelle dar. Ergänzt um Literaturstudien und Zeitzeugengespräche bilden sie die Grundlage der vorliegenden Arbeit. Im Fokus dieses Bandes stehen das öffentlichkeitsbezogene Wirken und die fachliche Positionierung Rossows - in den Debatten der ersten Nachkriegsjahre, im Aufbau der Bundesrepublik und im Zuge des Wandels plane...
