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The Architecture of the Museum
From the Louvre to the Bilbao Guggenheim and Tate Modern, the museum has had a long-standing relationship with the city. Examination of the meaning of museum architecture in the urban environment, considering issues such as forms of civic representation, urban regeneration, cultural tourism and the museumification of the city itself. Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present day, case-studies are drawn from Europe, South America and Australia. Contributions written by J.Birksted, V.Fraser, H.Lewi, D.J.Meijers and others.
Tools for Ideas
Architects today must position themselves within an extremely wide-ranging field of qualifications. This makes it all the more important to have a fresh introduction to the field that makes up one of their core competences, the field of design. This introductory presentation describes and analyzes the theories, strategies, and tools of creative design for the purposes of practical work. With thoughtfulness and expertise, it opens the reader’s eyes to the processes that underlie design and demonstrates different ways of communicating about complex design work. The first section focuses on the much-discussed relationship between design and research, between architecture and the sciences. The second section describes basic design approaches, from Vitruvius and Alberti through Erwin Panofsky and Wolfgang Kemp to Otl Aicher and Vilém Flusser. The third and largest section presents the elementary tools of design, from gestures and words through drawings, models, and simulations to critique, all as instruments of creative design in architecture and its related fields.
Schiller: National Poet – Poet of Nations
To mark the 200th anniversary of Schiller’s death, leading scholars from Germany, Canada, the UK and the USA have contributed to this volume of commemorative essays. These were first presented at a symposium held at the University of Birmingham in June 2005. The essays collected here shed important new light on Schiller’s standing as a national and transnational figure , both in his own lifetime and in the two hundred years since his death. Issues explored include: aspects of Schiller’s life and work which contributed to the creation of heroic and nationalist myths of the poet during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; his activities as man of the theatre and publisher in his own, pre-national context; the (trans-)national dimensions of Schiller’s poetic and dramatic achievement in their contemporary context and with reference to later appropriations of national(ist) elements in his work. The contributions to this volume illuminate Schiller’s achievements as poet, playwright, thinker and historian, and bring acute insights to bear on both the history of his impact in a variety of contexts and his enduring importance as a point of cultural reference.
Presenting Difficult Pasts Through Architecture
Architectural design can play a role in helping make the past present in meaningful ways when applied to preexisting buildings and places that carry notable and troubling pasts. In this comparative analysis, Rumiko Handa establishes the critical role architectural designs play in presenting difficult pasts by examining documentation centers on National Socialism in Germany. Presenting Difficult Pasts Through Architecture analyzes four centers – Cologne, Nuremberg, Berlin, and Munich – from the point of view of their shared intent to make the past present at National Socialists' perpetrator sites. Applying original frameworks, Handa considers what more architectural design could do toward meaningful representations and interpretations of difficult pasts. This book is a must-read for students, practitioners, and academics interested in how architectural design can participate in presenting the difficult pasts of historical places in meaningful ways.
The Transparent State
Do open societies need transparent architecture? Does transparent architecture help make an open society? This book examines German culture's on-going relationship with Transparency, a relationship which culminates in the new Reichstag building.
Critics of Modernity
In cultural terms that ethos was every bit as powerful as the prevailing discourse of Modernism, bringing within its sway figures as diverse as Hermann Lons, Hans Grimm, Ernst Junger, Stefan George, Arnolt Bronnen, Ernst von Salomon, and Gottfried Benn. Disparate as they were in their aesthetic aims and priorities, these writers shared a thorough rejection of the values and institutions of the modern world, whose perceived evils they sought to remove through that most paradoxical of all political acts: a conservative revolution.
Rudolf Borchardt und der >Untergang der deutschen Nation
Die Studie untersucht zum ersten Mal gezielt das essayistische Gesamtwerk Rudolf Borchardts (1877-1945). Im Einleitungsteil wird nicht nur durch die Analyse von Borchardts Autobiographie nachgewiesen, daß er von Kindheit an eine narzißtische Persönlichkeitsstruktur besaß, sondern auch an Essays und Reden gezeigt, wie diese Struktur seine literarische Selbstinszenierung als Märtyrer, Prophet und Messias der deutschen Geschichte bestimmt, in der er die kulturpolitische Mission der 'schöpferischen Restauration' für sich beansprucht. Die vier Kapitel des Hauptteils entfalten Borchardts Konstruktion der deutschen Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts als apokalyptisch endende Tragödie (...
Ästhetischer Katholizismus
Rituale haben eine soziale und eine ästhetische Dimension. Rituale können sozial wirksam sein, weil sie auch ästhetisch in den Bann ziehen. Beides gehört unauflösbar zusammen. Das Werk Stefan Georges (1868–1933) stellt in der deutschen Literaturgeschichte der Moderne den bedeutendsten und konsequentesten Fall einer Ästhetik des Rituals dar. Unter der Kategorie des Rituals läßt sich die für George selbst wichtige innere Einheit von Leben und Werk rekonstruieren. Georges Werk ist gleichsam ein einziges Übergangsritual, das die deutschsprachige Lyrik dem europäischen Ästhetizismus und Symbolismus geöffnet hat. Seine Rituale der Literatur entfalteten früh ihre soziale Bindekraft ...
