Peter Behrens and a New Architecture for the Twentieth Century

Name: Peter Behrens and a New Architecture for the Twentieth Century
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ISBN: 9780262011761

ISBN-10: 026201176X

ISBN-13: 9780262011761

Edition: 2000

Authors: Stanford Anderson

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This text looks at the work of Peter Behrens, analyzing the cultural and architectural context in which it was produced and the relation of his own house in Darmstadt to his ideal of a society where life is formed as art.

Book details

List price: $78.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 5/22/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 446
Size: 8.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.684
Language: English

Stanford Anderson is Head of the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



A Context for the Early Work of Behrens: The Emergence of a New Architecture in Germany and Austria around 1900



Behrens's Changing Concept of Life as Art: A Review of the Early Work



Behrens's Highest Kultursymbol, the Theater: Darmstadt, 1900-1903



Theory and Teaching of Architecture: Dusseldorf, 1903-1907



Modern Architecture and Industry, a Cultural Policy of Historical Determinism: Berlin I



Industrial Design, a Strategy for Uniting Technology and Art: Berlin II



Architecture for Industry, the AEG Factories: Berlin III



Expression, Convention, and Convention as Expression: Berlin IV



The Interwar Years


Conclusion


Notes


List of Architectural Works



Bibliography and Sources


Illustration Credits


Index