Bruno Taut and the Architecture of Activism

Name: Bruno Taut and the Architecture of Activism
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ISBN: 9780521131834

ISBN-10: 0521131839

ISBN-13: 9780521131834

Edition: 2010

Authors: Iain Boyd Whyte

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List price: $53.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/11/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.69" wide x 9.61" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Iain Boyd Whyteis Professor of Architectural History at the University of Edinburgh and author ofManmade Future(Routledge, 2007).David Frisbywas Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and author ofCityscapes of Modernity: Critical Explorations(Cambridge, 2001).



List of illustrations


Preface


Introduction



The Roots of Activism



Reformism and Expressionism



Bruno Taut: 1900-1914



1914-1918: The Foundations of Activist Architecture



Pacifism



Regeneration



Chiliastic expectations - the Gemeinschaft



Geist and Volk



The role of the activist



The rationalism of intuition



The new city and the resonance of Geist and Volk



November 1918-April 1919. Activism and Political Engagement



The Politischer Rat geistiger Arbeiter and the Arbeitrat fÃ¼r Kunst



The politics of decentralisation



The AFK, December 1918-April 1919



April 1919-December 1920



The AFK under Walter Gropius



The Ausstellung fÃ¼r unbekannte Architekten



Taut and the Proletkult



Taut's literary activity in the summer of 1919



The Bund fÃ¼r proletarische Kultur



the Werkbund conference: September 1919



Autumn and winter 1919: unrealised projects



The Glï¿½ï¿½serne Kett



Taut and the theatre



The end of an avant-garde


Conclusion


Appendices


Notes


Bibliography


Sources of illustrations


Index