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The Victory of the New Building Style (Texts & Documents)by Walter Curt Behrendt
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The architect and theorist Walter Behrendt was involved with public housing and urban development as a designer and administrator for the German government after World War I. From 1925 to 1926 he edited the journal Die Form for the German Werkbund and led an articulate and well-orchestrated campaign in support of the Modern Movement. A friend and colleague of Lewis Mumford, he immigrated in 1934 to the United States where he taught courses on city planning and housing at Dartmouth College and the University of Buffalo. This book--Behrendt's principle theoretical work in German and the precursor to Modern Building--presents a revisionist concept of style that places equal emphasis on form and function. Here, Behrendt calls for architects to return to basic geometries and to articulate explicitly the new social and economic realities. Now available in English for the first time, this incisive treatise boldly advocates international modernism to the general public. Book News Annotation:An early admirer of Frank Lloyd Wright, the German critic Behrendt
(d. 1945), influenced modernist design in Europe and America (where
he lived from 1934 on) via an organic architectural approach to
industrial society. Building photos illustrate the new functionalism.
This English translation of his principal theoretical work, Sieg
des neuen Baustils (1927), is introduced by Detlef Mertins
(architecture, U. of Toronto).
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis:Presents Behrendt's revisionist conception of style that places equal emphasis on form and function . Synopsis:This series offers a range of heretofore unavailable writings in English translation on the subjects of art, architecture, and aesthetics. Presents Behrendt's revisionist conception of style that places equal emphasis on form and function. About the Author Detlef Mertins, associate professor of architecture at the University of Toronto, is an architect, historian, and critic. Harry Francis Mallgrave translated Otto Wagner's Modern Architecture for the TextsandDocuments series, and his most recent book is Gottfried Semper: Architect of the Nineteenth Century. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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