Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17561310.2023.2191764
Paul Schmitthenner
Abstract A leading spirit in the traditionally orientated school of architecture centred on the Technische Hochschule in Stuttgart, Paul Schmitthenner was highly influential both as a practicing architect and as an educator in the 1920s. He was resolutely opposed to the modernism of Internationales Bauen and led the polemics against the 1927 Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart, promoted by the Deutscher Werkbund and organised by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe as spokesman for the Berlin-centered group of modernist designers, The Ring. As the text translated here indicates, Schmitthenner nurtured great hopes for cultural and architectural renewal under National Socialism, which proved misplaced.
{"title":"Tradition and New Building","authors":"Paul Schmitthenner","doi":"10.1080/17561310.2023.2191764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17561310.2023.2191764","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A leading spirit in the traditionally orientated school of architecture centred on the Technische Hochschule in Stuttgart, Paul Schmitthenner was highly influential both as a practicing architect and as an educator in the 1920s. He was resolutely opposed to the modernism of Internationales Bauen and led the polemics against the 1927 Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart, promoted by the Deutscher Werkbund and organised by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe as spokesman for the Berlin-centered group of modernist designers, The Ring. As the text translated here indicates, Schmitthenner nurtured great hopes for cultural and architectural renewal under National Socialism, which proved misplaced.","PeriodicalId":53629,"journal":{"name":"Art in Translation","volume":"15 1","pages":"49 - 57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42557932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17561310.2023.2191753
Hermann Muthesius
Abstract Muthesius criticizes restoration architects whose aim is to return a building to an ideal past state, an approach he decries as both impossible (because one cannot replicate the work of a craftsman of 500 years before) and dangerous when nearly successful (because it conceals the stages of the building’s construction). Drawing on the ideas of William Morris, he instead calls for preserving buildings by repairing them where needed in materials that contrast with the rest of the building, thus clearly distinguishing new from old.
{"title":"The ‘Restoration’ of Our Old Buildings [1904]","authors":"Hermann Muthesius","doi":"10.1080/17561310.2023.2191753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17561310.2023.2191753","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Muthesius criticizes restoration architects whose aim is to return a building to an ideal past state, an approach he decries as both impossible (because one cannot replicate the work of a craftsman of 500 years before) and dangerous when nearly successful (because it conceals the stages of the building’s construction). Drawing on the ideas of William Morris, he instead calls for preserving buildings by repairing them where needed in materials that contrast with the rest of the building, thus clearly distinguishing new from old.","PeriodicalId":53629,"journal":{"name":"Art in Translation","volume":"15 1","pages":"10 - 28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48520447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17561310.2023.2191752
Alexander Luckmann, Volker M. Welter
{"title":"Constructing and Reconstructing History in Twentieth-Century German Architecture","authors":"Alexander Luckmann, Volker M. Welter","doi":"10.1080/17561310.2023.2191752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17561310.2023.2191752","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53629,"journal":{"name":"Art in Translation","volume":"15 1","pages":"1 - 9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49645443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17561310.2023.2191756
Alfons Leitl
Abstract Published in the German architectural magazine Bauwelt at the end of 1934, Leitl’s article introduces recent buildings in Northern Germany by the Bavarian architect Emil Egermann (c. 1894–1960s). The article presents the buildings exclusively through drawings and black-and-white photographs. The images show the buildings within the local landscape and architectural details that stress the simplicity of the modern designs and the liveability of the buildings. Leitl argues that Germany has given birth to two versions of modern architecture depending on whether one looks at Northern or Southern Germany. The author’s sympathy lies with the southern German version of Modernism that draws on traditions as opposed to the northern German version that adopts ideologies such as functionalism.
{"title":"Northern and Southern Germany: Notes on the Works of the Architect Emil Egermann, Berlin","authors":"Alfons Leitl","doi":"10.1080/17561310.2023.2191756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17561310.2023.2191756","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Published in the German architectural magazine Bauwelt at the end of 1934, Leitl’s article introduces recent buildings in Northern Germany by the Bavarian architect Emil Egermann (c. 1894–1960s). The article presents the buildings exclusively through drawings and black-and-white photographs. The images show the buildings within the local landscape and architectural details that stress the simplicity of the modern designs and the liveability of the buildings. Leitl argues that Germany has given birth to two versions of modern architecture depending on whether one looks at Northern or Southern Germany. The author’s sympathy lies with the southern German version of Modernism that draws on traditions as opposed to the northern German version that adopts ideologies such as functionalism.","PeriodicalId":53629,"journal":{"name":"Art in Translation","volume":"15 1","pages":"58 - 62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46550944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17561310.2023.2191762
Wolf Jobst Siedler, Elisabeth Niggemeyer, G. Angreß
Abstract The following translation is a chapter from a longer book that bemoans the loss of historical architecture through the demolition that swept through German cities in the aftermath of World War II. The text and the numerous photographs—the latter often juxtaposed before and after images—focus on architectural details such as ornamentation of facades, the loss of urban spaces such as corridor streets and squares, and the removal of trees that were once essential parts of urban neighborhoods. The translated section is Wolf Jobst Siedler’s introduction to the photographic survey illustrating the devastating consequences of removing the rich ornamentation of the facades of historical buildings that had survived the destruction of World War II. Siedler’s argument is not driven by nostalgia and sentimentality but by the quality of life in contemporary German cities. His arguments are often aesthetic ones that open up wider historical, cultural, and political discourses, somewhat comparable to Rudolf Borchardt’s approach to the Italian villa but without the latter’s nationalist overtones.
{"title":"Requiem for Putti","authors":"Wolf Jobst Siedler, Elisabeth Niggemeyer, G. Angreß","doi":"10.1080/17561310.2023.2191762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17561310.2023.2191762","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The following translation is a chapter from a longer book that bemoans the loss of historical architecture through the demolition that swept through German cities in the aftermath of World War II. The text and the numerous photographs—the latter often juxtaposed before and after images—focus on architectural details such as ornamentation of facades, the loss of urban spaces such as corridor streets and squares, and the removal of trees that were once essential parts of urban neighborhoods. The translated section is Wolf Jobst Siedler’s introduction to the photographic survey illustrating the devastating consequences of removing the rich ornamentation of the facades of historical buildings that had survived the destruction of World War II. Siedler’s argument is not driven by nostalgia and sentimentality but by the quality of life in contemporary German cities. His arguments are often aesthetic ones that open up wider historical, cultural, and political discourses, somewhat comparable to Rudolf Borchardt’s approach to the Italian villa but without the latter’s nationalist overtones.","PeriodicalId":53629,"journal":{"name":"Art in Translation","volume":"15 1","pages":"130 - 136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47506929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17561310.2023.2191769
Dieter Hoffmann-Axthelm
Abstract The essay was initially broadcast in approximately 1979 as a radio feature by a Berlin radio station and subsequently published in 1980 in ARCH+, a magazine for architecture and urbanism that was founded in 1967 by students and faculty of the University of Stuttgart. The essay argues for abolishing any official, municipal, and state-wide politics addressing the preservation and conservation of historical buildings. After briefly surveying the contemporary tendency to list ever more buildings threatened with demolition by urban developments, Hoffmann-Axthelm analyzes the history of preservation in Germany. The loss or disappearance of a clear notion of the historical identity of monuments in the early twentieth century prompted many preservation initiatives later in the century, even for buildings such as workers’ housing, factories and similar, which were not traditionally regarded as monuments. Yet what looks like a success story is, in reality, often the usurpation of preservation efforts by municipal and state-wide politics in conjunction with the construction industry and financial interests, a knot that cannot be untied but only cut by abolishing any official politics of preservation of historic buildings.
{"title":"The Case for Abolishing Historic Building Preservation","authors":"Dieter Hoffmann-Axthelm","doi":"10.1080/17561310.2023.2191769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17561310.2023.2191769","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The essay was initially broadcast in approximately 1979 as a radio feature by a Berlin radio station and subsequently published in 1980 in ARCH+, a magazine for architecture and urbanism that was founded in 1967 by students and faculty of the University of Stuttgart. The essay argues for abolishing any official, municipal, and state-wide politics addressing the preservation and conservation of historical buildings. After briefly surveying the contemporary tendency to list ever more buildings threatened with demolition by urban developments, Hoffmann-Axthelm analyzes the history of preservation in Germany. The loss or disappearance of a clear notion of the historical identity of monuments in the early twentieth century prompted many preservation initiatives later in the century, even for buildings such as workers’ housing, factories and similar, which were not traditionally regarded as monuments. Yet what looks like a success story is, in reality, often the usurpation of preservation efforts by municipal and state-wide politics in conjunction with the construction industry and financial interests, a knot that cannot be untied but only cut by abolishing any official politics of preservation of historic buildings.","PeriodicalId":53629,"journal":{"name":"Art in Translation","volume":"15 1","pages":"137 - 154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45118313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17561310.2023.2191755
Theo Lechner
Abstract As an architect, Theo Lechner was committed to traditional Bavarian design languages and constructional techniques. In this article, a review of a building exhibition staged in Munich in 1926, he is very dismissive of the modernism promoted by the Bauhaus and of any hint of architectural internationalism, which he saw as a manifestation of Soviet communism.
{"title":"The Architecture Exhibition in Munich 1926","authors":"Theo Lechner","doi":"10.1080/17561310.2023.2191755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17561310.2023.2191755","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract As an architect, Theo Lechner was committed to traditional Bavarian design languages and constructional techniques. In this article, a review of a building exhibition staged in Munich in 1926, he is very dismissive of the modernism promoted by the Bauhaus and of any hint of architectural internationalism, which he saw as a manifestation of Soviet communism.","PeriodicalId":53629,"journal":{"name":"Art in Translation","volume":"15 1","pages":"43 - 48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47987886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17561310.2023.2191760
Otto Bartning
Abstract This appeal, signed by a cross-section of German architects, planners, and intellectuals, calls for a rebuilding of German cities not along old forms but “for new tasks and in a new form.” It calls for a new architectural beginning for a new era. Yet, many of the signatories were involved in Third Reich building projects, thus demonstrating problematic continuity rather than complete rupture.
{"title":"An Appeal: Fundamental Demands","authors":"Otto Bartning","doi":"10.1080/17561310.2023.2191760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17561310.2023.2191760","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This appeal, signed by a cross-section of German architects, planners, and intellectuals, calls for a rebuilding of German cities not along old forms but “for new tasks and in a new form.” It calls for a new architectural beginning for a new era. Yet, many of the signatories were involved in Third Reich building projects, thus demonstrating problematic continuity rather than complete rupture.","PeriodicalId":53629,"journal":{"name":"Art in Translation","volume":"15 1","pages":"96 - 116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47016802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/17561310.2022.2170721
Jung-Ah Woo
{"title":"Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism? Postmodern Polemics in Contemporary Korean Art","authors":"Jung-Ah Woo","doi":"10.1080/17561310.2022.2170721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17561310.2022.2170721","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53629,"journal":{"name":"Art in Translation","volume":"14 1","pages":"371 - 380"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46287571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/17561310.2022.2163084
Jeong Jeong-ho, Kang Naehui
Abstract This article was written as an introduction to an anthology of postmodernism that includes texts by the leading Western thinkers such as Leslie Fiedler, Jürgen Habermas, Jean François Lyotard, Fredric Jameson, Terry Eagleton, Ihab Hassan, and Andreas Huyssen. As English literature scholars, the authors acknowledge the necessity of postmodernism as a cultural theory that provides a framework for understanding the new cultural aspects of the consumer-oriented, multi-national capitalism of Korea. At the same time, they emphasize that Korea is in an exceptional political, national, historical situation as a divided country in a condition of truce.
{"title":"Introduction: Theory of Postmodernism","authors":"Jeong Jeong-ho, Kang Naehui","doi":"10.1080/17561310.2022.2163084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17561310.2022.2163084","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article was written as an introduction to an anthology of postmodernism that includes texts by the leading Western thinkers such as Leslie Fiedler, Jürgen Habermas, Jean François Lyotard, Fredric Jameson, Terry Eagleton, Ihab Hassan, and Andreas Huyssen. As English literature scholars, the authors acknowledge the necessity of postmodernism as a cultural theory that provides a framework for understanding the new cultural aspects of the consumer-oriented, multi-national capitalism of Korea. At the same time, they emphasize that Korea is in an exceptional political, national, historical situation as a divided country in a condition of truce.","PeriodicalId":53629,"journal":{"name":"Art in Translation","volume":"14 1","pages":"381 - 391"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48634508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：