The victory of the new building style

Author(s)

• Behrendt, Walter Curt
• Mertins, Detlef
• Mallgrave, Harry Francis

Bibliographic Information

The victory of the new building style

Walter Curt Behrendt ; introduction by Detlef Mertins ; translation by Harry Francis Mallgrave

（Texts & documents）

Getty Research Institute, 2000

• : pbk

Other Title

Sieg des Neuen Baustils

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In this volume, first published in German in 1927, Walter Curt Behrendt presents a revisionist concept of style that places equal emphasis on form and function. Behrendt calls on architects to return to basic geometries and to express the new social and economic realities.

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Details

• NCID: BA47690278
• ISBN:
  • 0892365633
• LCCN: 99038321
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: ger
• Place of Publication: Los Angeles, Calif.
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 162 p.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : NA1068
  • DC21 : 724/.6
  • NDC9 : 523.07
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Germany
  • LCSH : Architecture -- Germany
  • LCSH : Functionalism (Architecture) -- Germany
  • LCSH : Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Philosophy
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA0707843X