Style-Architecture and Building-Art: Transformations of Architecture in the Nineteenth Century and Its Present Condition (Texts and Documents Series) - Hardcover
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Style-Architecture and Building-Art is Hermann Muthesius’s classic criticism of nineteenth century architecture. Now published for the first time in English, this pivotal text represents the first serious effort by Muthesius to define the elements of early modernist architecture according to notions of realism and simplicity.
Although Muthesius is known best in Anglo-American architectural literature for his studies of the English house, his scholarship constituted a wide-ranging modernist polemic emanating from the German realist movement of the late 1890s. Notions that were introduced in Style-Architecture and Building-Art became common in later modernist historiography: disdain for the nineteenth century’s artistic eclecticism and lack of originality; appreciation of the material and industrial aspects of building technology, and, above all, a simpler approach to design. Muthesius' critique of stylistic architecture is not only linked to the development of the Deutsche Werkbund movement, but also can be viewed more broadly as a cornerstone of the modern movement.
In his introduction, Standford Anderson situates Muthesius and his work in turn-of-the-century architectural discourse and analyzes his vision of a new form of architecture. Anderson also discusses the rationale underlying the call for cultural renewal, the role of English architectural models in Muthesius’s thought, critical differences between the first and second editions of Style-Architecture and Building-Art, the influence of the Jugendstil and Art Nouveau movements on Muthesius and, in turn, the influence of Muthesius on the Deutsche Werkbund movement.
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Original Language: German
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Style-Architecture and Building-Art: Transformations of Architecture in the Nineteenth Century and Its Present Condition
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ISBN 10: 0892362820
ISBN 13: 9780892362820
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The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Monica, California, 1994
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ISBN 13: 9780892362820
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing, full number line (1-7); a new edition of Muthesius's classic 1902 text. An entry in Getty's Texts and Documents Series, which reprints "neglected, forgotten, or unavailable writings in English translation." The book is square and unmarked; corners and spine ends unbumped; a flare to the front board. The dust jacket is not priced; a quarter-inch closed tear to the top of the spine; Brodart protected. Seller Inventory # 015699