Identifying and documenting a previously unrecognized compositional tradition ¿ characterized here as the 'screen façade' ¿ this book posits it as a counter-narrative critiquing the essentialist, 'authentic' canon currently dominant in Western architectural history. By crossing evenly over the dividing line between the historical and modern periods, it offers valuable insights on indigenous roots underlying some aspects of Germany's invigorating early twentieth-century architectural developments. Around seventy five buildings are mentioned and illustrated, a dozen are given extensive analysis…mehr
Identifying and documenting a previously unrecognized compositional tradition ¿ characterized here as the 'screen façade' ¿ this book posits it as a counter-narrative critiquing the essentialist, 'authentic' canon currently dominant in Western architectural history. By crossing evenly over the dividing line between the historical and modern periods, it offers valuable insights on indigenous roots underlying some aspects of Germany's invigorating early twentieth-century architectural developments. Around seventy five buildings are mentioned and illustrated, a dozen are given extensive analysis and the book focuses on the works of three architects ¿ Schinkel, Behrens and Mies.
Randall Ott, AIA, is an architect and educator who since 2003 has served as Dean of the School of Architecture + Planning at The Catholic University of America, in Washington DC. He has written widely on Modernism in central and northern Europe, publishing book chapters, articles, book reviews and encyclopedia entries. Particular emphases have been on the work of Mies van der Rohe, Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Germany. He has also made more than 30 scholarly presentations and lectures in those areas of study. For many years he served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Architectural Education, reviewing articles on those topics. His interests often undertake a juxtaposition of wider cultural manifestations with architecture, such as his chairing of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture's 1997 international conference in Berlin, entitled Building as a Political Act. As an architect, for the past two decades he has been involved in theoretical studies of the design of sacral and honorific spaces. For his work with theoretical chapels, he has won three Faculty Design Awards from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.
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List of Illustrations List of Locations and Buildings Acknowledgments 1 Four Centuries of Faint Centers 2 Hermeneutics and the Sixth Component 3 Greek Italian and Germanic Precursors 4 Comprehensive Early Screens 5 Schinkel and Berlin 6 Caspar David Friedrich and the Faint Axis 7 Screens of Southern and Western Germany and Vienna 8 Peter Behrens 9 Twentieth Century Screens 10 Nazi Screens 11 Mies van der Rohe and Crown Hall 12 Conclusion References Index
List of Illustrations List of Locations and Buildings Acknowledgments 1 Four Centuries of Faint Centers 2 Hermeneutics and the Sixth Component 3 Greek Italian and Germanic Precursors 4 Comprehensive Early Screens 5 Schinkel and Berlin 6 Caspar David Friedrich and the Faint Axis 7 Screens of Southern and Western Germany and Vienna 8 Peter Behrens 9 Twentieth Century Screens 10 Nazi Screens 11 Mies van der Rohe and Crown Hall 12 Conclusion References Index
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