| Description |
xvii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Series |
Modern architecture and cultural identity |
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Modern architecture and cultural identity.
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| Contents |
1. A Concrete Monument to Relativity -- 2. "Rhythms of Motors and Speed of Life": The Appeal of Foreign Modernisms -- 3. The Docking of the Mauretania and Other Experiments in "Style Mendelsohn" -- 4. An Architecture for the Metropolis -- 5. Advertising, Transparency, and Light: "No Rococo Palace for Buster Keaton" -- 6. "Banana Wholesalers and Combines That Run Department Stores" -- 7. "A Splendid Demonstration of the Modern Spirit" |
| Summary |
She also illustrates how much Mendelsohn's thriving practice depended on the patronage of his fellow German Jews, many of whom shared his commitment to creating alternatives to the nationalistic historicism of the late Wilhelmine period |
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Erich Mendelsohn's buildings, erected throughout Germany between 1920 and 1932, epitomized architectural modernity for his compatriots. In this study, Kathleen James examines Mendelsohn's department stores, office buildings, and cinemas, the downtown counterparts to the famous housing projects built during the same years in Frankfurt and Berlin. Demonstrating the degree to which these buildings' dynamic presence stemmed from Mendelsohn's attention to their consumer-oriented functions, James shows Mendelsohn to be more than an Expressionist, as he is usually characterized. James recounts how his architecture closely reflected the controversies over modernity, including relativity, consumerism, and urban planning, that raged during the years of the Weimar Republic |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-319) and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Mendelsohn, Erich, 1887-1953 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Architecture -- Germany.
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Expressionism (Architecture) -- Germany.
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Functionalism (Architecture) -- Germany.
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| LC no. |
96038999 |
| ISBN |
0521571685 |
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