Building Culture : Ernst May and the New Frankfurt Main Initiative, 1926-1931 ebook

Building Culture : Ernst May and the New Frankfurt Main Initiative, 1926-1931. Susan R. Henderson

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Author: Susan R. Henderson
Number of Pages: 591 pages
Published Date: 23 Aug 2013
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
Format: Pdf
ISBN: 9781433105876
File size: 9 Mb
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This book is a history of the initiative, its projects and actors, notably the architect and planner Ernst May, and its achievements, set within the turbulent context of the Weimar decade. It chronicles its many accomplishments: the construction of housing settlements, innovations in construction and materials, the parks and garden colonies program, innovations in school, medical facility and church design, reforms in woman's sphere, and a crafting of New Life culture. It examines the New Frankfurt am Main in light of the social and political debates that shaped it and the works it produced, and describes the relationship of work and theory to contemporary reform movements. Finally, the narrative underscores the gulf between the idyll of modernity and the political and social realities of life in a Germany on the brink of collapse.

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