Victory of the New Building Style

This book-Behrendt's principle theoretical work in German and the precursor to Modern Building- presents a revisionist concept of style that places equal emphasis on form and function. Now available in English for the first time, this incisive treatise boldly advocates international modernism to the general public.

About the author

Detlef Mertins, associate professor of architecture at the University of Toronto, is an architect, historian, and critic. Harry Francis Mallgrave translated Otto Wagner's Modern Architecture for the Texts & Documents series, and his most recent book is Gottfried Semper: Architect of the Nineteenth Century.

Summary

In this volume, first published in German in 1927, Walter Curt Behrendt presents a revisionist concept of style that places equal emphasis on form and function. Behrendt calls on architects to return to basic geometries and to express the new social and economic realities.

Product details

• Authors: . Behrendt, .. Behrendt, Walter Behrendt, Walter Curt Behrendt, Harry F Mallgrave
• Assisted by: Harry Mallgrave (Translation), Harry F. Mallgrave (Translation), Harry Francis Mallgrave (Translation)
• Publisher: Getty, j.paul, museum publ.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2006
• EAN: 9780892365630
• ISBN: 978-0-89236-563-0
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Texts & Documents; Texts & Documents (Paperback); Texts & Documents; Texts & Documents (Paperback); BIBLIOTHECA PAEDIATRICA REF KARGER; Getty Publications - (Yale); Texts and Documents
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture