German Architecture for a Mass Audience
This book vividly illustrates the ways in which buildings designed by many of Germany's most celebrated twentieth century architects were embedded in widely held beliefs about the power of architecture to influence society. German Architecture for a Mass Audience also demonstrates the way in which these modernist ideas have been challenged and transformed, most recently in the rebuilding of central Berlin.
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German Architecture for a Mass Audience
This book vividly illustrates the ways in which buildings designed by many of Germany's most celebrated twentieth century architects were embedded in widely held beliefs about the power of architecture to influence society. German Architecture for a Mass Audience also demonstrates the way in which these modernist ideas have been challenged and transformed, most recently in the rebuilding of central Berlin.
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German Architecture for a Mass Audience

German Architecture for a Mass Audience

by Kathleen James-Chakraborty
German Architecture for a Mass Audience

German Architecture for a Mass Audience

by Kathleen James-Chakraborty

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This book vividly illustrates the ways in which buildings designed by many of Germany's most celebrated twentieth century architects were embedded in widely held beliefs about the power of architecture to influence society. German Architecture for a Mass Audience also demonstrates the way in which these modernist ideas have been challenged and transformed, most recently in the rebuilding of central Berlin.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415236546
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 09/14/2000
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 182
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kathleen James-Chakraborty

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements. List of Illustrations. Chapter 1 - Space. Chapter 2 - Simplicity. Chapter 3 - Spirituality. Chapter 4 - Spectacle. Chapter 5 - Postwar Legacy. Chapter 6 - The New Berlin. Conclusion. Bibliography.
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