Susan R. Henderson Building Culture (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Building CultureCondition: NewEAN: 9781433105876ISBN: 9781433105876Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 08/23/2013Item Height: 230mmItem Length: 155mmItem Weight: 940gAuthor: Susan R. HendersonLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Ernst May and the New Frankfurt am Main Initiative, 1926–1931Description: 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: USBook Series: Studies in Modern European HistoryGenre: Architecture & AntiquesTopic: HistoryContributor: Frank J. Coppa (Series edited by)Release Year: 2013 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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