Crystal Chain Letters: Architectural Fantasies by Bruno Taut and His Circle
Language: English
Published by MIT, 1985
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Book is in excellent condition in blue cloth HB covers, white print at spine Very Slight signs of shelf wear only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows edge wear at top with small tears (< 1/2") at spine. Complete English texts of utopian correspondence Die Gläserne Kette initiated by Bruno Taut 1919-1920 with group of architects and artists including Max Taut, Walter Gropius, Hans and Wassili Luckhardt, Hans Scharoun, Wenzel Hablik, and Hermann Finsterlin exchanging visions of ideal society and beneficent architecture following First World War, documenting crisis of modernism in German architectural theory, translated and edited with introductory essay and explanatory notes by Iain Boyd Whyte, with illustrations and bibliography. Keywords: Utopian Correspondence, Max Taut, Gropius, Luckhardt, Expressionist, Post WWI, Complete Texts, Utopian vision, Hans Scharoun.
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- Title
- Crystal Chain Letters: Architectural Fantasies by Bruno Taut and His Circle
- Author
- Whyte, Iain Boyd (ed/trans); Taut, Bruno; Hablik, Wenzel; Finsterlin, Hermann, and Others
- Publisher
- MIT
- Publication year
- 1985
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hard Cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0262231212
- ISBN 13
- 9780262231213
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Architecture
Although the letters are referred to in almost every survey of twentieth century architecture, this is the first book to offer in English the complete texts of all the known Crystal Chain letters, including some which have never been published in German. The letters are accompanied by illustrations, an introductory essay, and explanatory notes.
The Crystal Chain letters document the crisis of modernism that afflicted German architectural theory in the years immediately following the First World War. The trauma of the war and the subsequent social unrest led the radical architects to reject the materialism and positivism that had characterized the "Kaiserreich." The result was an ideological and aesthetic vacuum, and the search for suitable alternatives provided the basis for the correspondence. After a year of intense theoretical speculation, several of the links in the chain, including Bruno and Max Taut, Walter Gropius, Hans and Wassili Luckhardt, and Hans Scharoun, emerged as leading advocates and practitioners of the new architecture in Germany.
Iain Boyd Whyte is an English architectural historian. He is the author of several books including Bruno Taut and the Architecture of Activism, and the translator of Industriekultur: Peter Behrens and the AEG (MIT Press, 1984).
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