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German Architects in Great Britain
Schatzke A
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages, 130 illus. BIC Classification: AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 293 x 239 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1226.
Text in English & German. In the years after 1933 several hundred architects were forced to emigrate from Germany by the National Socialist dictatorship. Between seventy and eighty of them went to Great Britain -- in part, prominent representatives of Modernism like Walter Gropius, Erich Mendelsohn, Erwin Gutkind, Arthur Korn and Marcel Breuer, but also less well known architects who had adopted very divergent positions. They found the architectural scene in Great Britain to be surprisingly conservative. Only a small circle of architects, clients and specialist journalists was open to modern design and construction methods and stylistic idioms. A few ... Read more
Text in English & German. In the years after 1933 several hundred architects were forced to emigrate from Germany by the National Socialist dictatorship. Between seventy and eighty of them went to Great Britain -- in part, prominent representatives of Modernism like Walter Gropius, Erich Mendelsohn, Erwin Gutkind, Arthur Korn and Marcel Breuer, but also less well known architects who had adopted very divergent positions. They found the architectural scene in Great Britain to be surprisingly conservative. Only a small circle of architects, clients and specialist journalists was open to modern design and construction methods and stylistic idioms. A few ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Language
German
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Fellbach, Germany
ISBN
9783936681758
SKU
V9783936681758
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About Schatzke A
Andreas Schätzke teaches the history of architecture and urban design at the Technische Universität Kaiserslautern. His research fields include architecture and urban design in post-war Europe and the relations between architecture, politics and society in the 20th century.
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