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The Epic of Expressionist Architecture: When Stone Refused to Remain Silent

Name: The Epic of Expressionist Architecture: When Stone Refused to Remain Silent
Author: Imad Darouich

ملحمة العمارة التعبيرية: حين رفض الحجر أن يبقى صامتًا

Expressionist architecture as form born of feeling, followed station by station through Bruno Taut's Glass Pavilion and Alpine Architecture, the Glass Chain, Erich Mendelsohn's Einstein Tower, Hans Poelzig, the Chilehaus, Rudolf Steiner's Goetheanum and the Berlin Philharmonie.

Format: PDF ebook
Languages: Arabic and English
Collection: Ideas & Philosophy

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About This Book

Expressionist architecture is followed from Bruno Taut to Erich Mendelsohn, Hans Poelzig and Rudolf Steiner, in a Europe where factories, trains and crowded cities were changing how people understood themselves. Its principles let emotion enter geometry, free the building from the box, treat material as part of the idea and light as an architectural substance. Stations follow: Taut's Glass Pavilion for the Werkbund Exhibition in Cologne and his Alpine Architecture drawings, Mendelsohn's Einstein Tower and his hat factory at Luckenwalde, Poelzig's Grosses Schauspielhaus, the brick of the Chilehaus, Steiner's Goetheanum and the visions of Hans Scharoun. The book ends by asking the contemporary architect what a person will feel on entering a building.

Form was no longer the child of the ruler alone.

It became part of the idea itself.

But what will a human being feel upon entering it?

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