Wie Bauen?
The title roughly translates to "How to build? : Construction and furnishing of the Werkbund settlement at Weissenhof in Stuttgart 1927". The text focuses on construction materials throughout (CMU, Masonry, Concrete, Steel, and Wood) with connections to contemporary, traditional, and historical precedents.
Wie bauen? : Bau und Einrichtung der Werkbundsiedlung am Weissenhof in Stuttgart 1927 by Call Number: Vault Q. 728.0943 R183wiPublication Date: 1927
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Berlin Modernism Housing Estates by
Six residential areas of the interwar Berlin Modern Style have been given in 2008 the status as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. In respect to its architecture and city planning, Berlin of the 1920s was considered the "avant-garde center of the world". These world-class projects have had an enduring effect on the definition and spread of social housing. This volume documents these six residential areas, using various historical and current photo material, plans and maps. The relevant historical turning points are explained in order to aid the readers understanding of the extraordinary importance of these sites for the worldwide culture of structure and its environment in the 20th Century. (via Google Books)
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The Crystal Chain Letters : Architectural Fantasies by Bruno Taut and his Circle by
The Crystal Chain Letters document the crisis of modernism that afflicted German architectural theory in the years immediately following the First World War. The trauma of the war and the subsequent social unrest led the radical architects to reject the materialism and positivism that had characterized the "Kaiserreich." The result was an ideological and aesthetic vacuum, and the search for suitable alternatives provided the basis for the correspondence. After a year of intense theoretical speculation, several of the links in the chain, including Bruno and Max Taut, Walter Gropius, Hans and Wassili Luckhardt, and Hans Scharoun, emerged as leading advocates and practitioners of the new architecture in Germany. (via MIT Press)
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An exceptional book about a rich period in early-twentieth-century German architecture. It combines the author's thorough personal knowledge of Poelzig and many of the principal architects of the twenties with his extraordinarily broad understanding of architectural history. (via book jacket)
Call Number: 720.943 P752PISBN: 0262161273Publication Date: 1992
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The design of housing has commanded the attention of the greatest architects of the twentieth century. In this stunning volume, Roger Sherwood presents thirty-two notable examples of multi-family housing from many countries and four continents, selected for their importance as prototypes. Designed by such masters as Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Alvar Aalto, they range from single-house clusters to row-houses, terrace houses, party-wall and large-courtyard housing, to urban high-rise towers and slabs. (via Harvard University Press)
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The Weissenhofsiedlung: Experimental Housing Built for the Deutscher Werkbund, Stuttgart, 1927 by
The Weissenhofsiedlung is a housing development designed and built by the leading architects of the modern movement for the 1927 exhibition Die Wohnung (The Home). Based on the architects' papers, records in the Stuttgart city archives, and interviews with contemporary witnesses, Kirsch offers an account of this unique urban environment that includes the surviving installation plans as well as previously unpublished photographs of furniture, interiors, and exteriors. (via Google Books)
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