Hans Scharoun
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Hans Scharoun
Phaidon, 1995
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Bibliography: p. 233-234
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780714828770
Description
This text offers an overview of the life and work of Hans Scharoun, a German architectural Modernist of the 1920s, who stayed in the country during the Third Reich to re-emerge in the 1950s. His theoretical stance in relation to his contemporaries is explored. Scharoun first achieved international recognition with his controversial house for the Stuttgart Weissenhofsiedlung in 1927. His experiments with free planning and dynamic interior space continued throughout the difficult wartime years, from which he emerged with renewed energy and a consolidated architectural philosophy. This is best exemplified by the famous Philharmonic concert hall in Berlin of 1956-63, which brought him widespread acclaim. This structure, with its in-the-round layout and geometrical complexity, has been much imitated and remains a 20th century model for this building type.
Table of Contents
- The early years
- the early 1920s and the development of functionalism
- the late 1920s and the housing question
- inner exile and the house as a vehicle for spatial experiment
- Hugo Haring and the theory of organ-like building
- the post-war period - wartime sketches, replanning Berlin and the start of a new public architecture
- housing in the post-war period
- the schools
- the theatres
- the concert halls
- the late work
- an evaluation.
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: pbk ISBN 9780714836287
Description
Hans Scharoun (1893-1972) was the most significant German architectural Modernist of the 1920s and an important exponent of organic architecture. Scharoun first achieved international recognition with his controversial house for the Stuttgart Weissenhofsiedlung in 1927. His experiments with free planning and dynamic interior space continued throughout the war and are exemplified in the highly acclaimed Philharmonie concert hall in Berlin (1956-63).
Peter Blundell Jones' exhaustive study not only provides a comprehensive overview of Scharoun's life and work, but also explores his theoretical stance in relation to contemporary icons such as Hugo Haring, Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier. Generously illustrated with photographs, plans and drawings, this book presents a timely re-evaluation of Scharoun's unique contribution to architectural theory and design.
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