German Façade Design

German Façade Design
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 515
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781317128465
ISBN-13 : 131712846X
Rating : 4/5 (46X Downloads)

Book Synopsis German Façade Design by : Randall Ott

Download or read book German Façade Design written by Randall Ott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German architecture prior to the modern period has received less systemic, analytical study than that of Italy, France, and Britain. Scholarly discussion of broad traditions or continuities within Germanic or Central European façade design is even sparser. Baroque era studies of the region mostly devote themselves to isolated architects, monuments, or movements. Modernism's advent decisively changed this: Germanic architecture enjoyed sudden ascendancy. Yet, even so, study specifically of that region's façades still lagged – nothing compares to the dozens of treatments of Le Corbusier's façade systems, for example, and how these juxtapose with French neoclassical or Italian Renaissance methods. Given the paucity of multi-period studies, one can be forgiven for believing Germany's effervescence of radical, modern works seems unprecedented. This book takes up these multiple quandaries. It identifies and documents a previously unrecognized compositional tradition - characterized here as the 'screen façade' – and 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. The book chronologically examines 400 years of closely related facades, concentrated in Germany but also found in Austria, the Czech Republic, German-speaking Switzerland, and nearby areas of Central Europe. While nearly 75 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. Relationships between examples of these three architects' façades far transcend mere homage amongst masters. Glimmers of the system they eventually codify are apparent as early as at Heidelberg Castle in 1559 and Nürnberg's Rathaus in 1622. The book argues that in Germany, northern Gothic affinities for bisection, intense repetition and rote aggregation intersected with southern Classical affinities for symmetry, hierarchy and centrality, thereby spawning a unique hybrid product – the screen. Instead of graphic formality, this study is guided by on-site perceptions, propositional contrasts, means of approach, interpretive conflicts and emotion and it relates the design of these façades to concepts proposed by contemporary philosophers including Novalis, Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, Adorno, and, most importantly, Gadamer on hermeneutics.


German Façade Design Related Books

German Façade Design
Language: en
Pages: 515
Authors: Randall Ott
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-17 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

German architecture prior to the modern period has received less systemic, analytical study than that of Italy, France, and Britain. Scholarly discussion of bro
East German Modern
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors:
Categories: Photography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-03 - Publisher: National Geographic Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This visually arresting tour through the former East Germany shows the best examples of modernist architecture still standing there today. The buildings constru
German Architecture for a Mass Audience
Language: en
Pages: 184
Authors: Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-09-06 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book vividly illustrates the ways in which buildings designed by many of Germany's most celebrated twentieth century architects were embedded in widely hel
Deep Skin Architecture
Language: en
Pages: 185
Authors: Timo Carl
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-25 - Publisher: Springer

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Timo Carl presents alternatives to curtain wall facades and other flat boundaries creating autonomous spaces. He investigates facade typologies with multiple ma
Best of Detail: Fassaden/Facades
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Christian Schittich
Categories: Facades
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10 - Publisher: Detail

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The facade serves as the building's public face, allowing rapid assessment of its architecture. 'Best of Detail: Facades' explores this topic with theoretical d