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Using a social approach to explain the formal aspects of early twentieth century architecture, German Architecture for a Mass Audience demonstrates that the move away from historical styles and towards an engagement with space was predicted in part by a shift in the public for architecture. By the 1910s German architects and their patrons addressed the working and lower middle classes in buildings which they hoped would, by being experienced in the same way regardless of social station, help transcend the country's deep political divisions. Attaching modernist architecture to mass culture and to the kind of spectacle more often associated with postmodernism, this book also elucidates the way in which these abstract architectural forms were from the beginning enlivened by performances - from political pageantry to religious ritual - and the lighting that accompanied them. The author vividly illustrates the ways in which buildings designed by many of Germany's most celebrated twentieth century architects, such as Max Berg, Bruno Taut, Peter Behrens, Otto Bartning, Dominikus Bohm, Heinrich Tessenow, Albert Speer, Hans Henslemann and Hans Scharoun, were embedded in widely held beliefs about the power of architecture to influence society. Shared by architects and patrons across the political spectrum, these ideas inspired their attempts literally to build community. German Architecture for a Mass Audience also demonstrates the way in which these modernist ideas have been challenged and transformed, most recently in the rebuilding of central Berlin; the renovation of the Reichstag by Foster and Partners and Libeskind's Jewish Museum are two of the examples explored.
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"In 1938 the German of the Rudolf Schwarz described the way in which the experience of standing in a ring affects those who participate in it: In the closed form of the ring the arcing movement which originated it circles incessantly ahead, an inner stream of power which constantly renews and unifies the figure, just as the warmly circulating blood sustains and enlivens the human body."
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