Constructing and Reconstructing History in Twentieth-Century German Architecture

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-88519-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 497 g

The battle in architecture between the internationalist voices of modernism and the localized resistance, which favored traditional technologies and regional precedents, reflected in microcosm the violent and complex histories of twentieth-century Germany. The chapters in this book span the years from 1902 to 1991 and interrogate the ways in which architecture constructed and reconstructed these histories, with a primary focus on those voices that were opposed to the dogmas of modernism. All translated into English for the first time, the chapters reflect the changing eras and contours of the German nation. They were written in the German Empire (1871–1918); the Weimar Republic (1918–1933); the Third Reich (1933–1945); the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic (GDR), which both existed from 1949 to 1990; and, finally, the reunified Germany that came into being in 1990 when the former GDR and the reunified Berlin joined the Federal Republic of Germany.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Art in Translation.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Luckmann, Alexander

Welter, Volker M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Introduction: Constructing and Reconstructing History in Twentieth-Century German Architecture 1. The ‘Restoration’ of Our Old Buildings 2. Villa 3. The Architecture Exhibition in Munich 1926 4. Tradition and New Building 5. Northern and Southern Germany: Notes on the Works of the Architect Emil Egermann, Berlin 6. The Buildings of the Third Reich 7. Architecture in the New Reich 8. The Motor Highways built by Herr Hitler: The Planning, Construction and Importance of the Reich Motor Roads 9. Heretical Thoughts at the Edge of the Rubble Heaps 10. An Appeal: Fundamental Demands 11. Art and Science on Track 12. Architecture in the Age of Science 13. Requiem for Putti 14. The Case for Abolishing Historic Building Preservation 15. Architectural Monuments

Über Autor(innen)

Alexander Luckmann is a Ph.D. student specializing in histories of architecture, preservation, and landscape. His primary research focus is twentieth-century German religious architecture. Additional research interests include historic preservation, American churches and real estate, California modernism, and the German-American monk and architect Cajetan Baumann.

Volker M. Welter is an architectural historian specializing in modern architecture from the nineteenth century onwards, mainly in California but also in Great Britain and Germany. His research interests center on domestic architecture; émigré architects; patronage, histories of modernism, revival styles, and sustainable architecture.