De stad als architectonische constructie: Het architectonisch discours van de stad (Duitsland 1871-1914)

De stad als architectonische constructie: Het architectonisch discours van de stad (Duitsland 1871-1914)

Claessens, F.

Risselada, M. (promotor)
Bertels, C.B. (promotor)
Engel, H.J. (promotor)

Architecture

2005-11-15

The city as an architectural construction: The architectural discours on the city At the turn of the 19th to the 20th century a paradigm shift took place within German architectural thinking that can be identified as a turn to the city. Whereas throughout the 19th century architectural knowledge was primarily directed to questions of style of individual, monumental buildings, in the last quarter of that century the attention shifted towards the wider collection of buildings forming a part of a bigger unity, that is, building blocks of the city. Architectural questions were studied more and more in relation to the form of the city: its built, spatio-physical structure. It is argued in this book that, this interest shift from individual buildings to building ensembles indicates the emergence of a new architectural paradigm between 1871 and 1914 which is named here urban architecture. The development of this new architectural paradigm is traced down by analysing a large amount of city studies that appeared in the German speaking countries around 1900. This kind of studies focused on the form of the city from a strictly architectural perspective. It was through these architectural studies of the city that within a few decades an architectural discourse of the city was subsequently built up. This book focuses on the way in which the city as a built structure became an object of architectural study: the city as an architectural construction. For this purpose a genealogy of the rise and development of the German architectural discourse on the city is developed. The object of this study therefore belongs to the order of the discourse: a network of texts of architecture on the form of the city.

architecture
urban analysis
mass-housing
Germany
urban design
aesthetics
19th-century
20th-century

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