Werner Hegemann and the search for universal urbanism : Christiane Crasemann Collins. txt

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Collins, Christiane Crasemann

New York ; London : W. W. Norton & Company , 2005Edición: First editionDescripción: 417 p. ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cmTipo de contenido:

text

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unmediaded

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ISBN:

0393731561
9780393731569

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Clasificación CDD:

307.1/216/092 B 22

Clasificación LoC:

HT169.G3 C637 2005

Contenidos:

Contents: 7 Acknowledgments -- 9 Preface -- 11 Sources -- 15 1. A Transatlantic Education -- 15 Prussia to Pennsylvania -- 19 Boston 1915 -- 32 2. A New Discipline -- 32 A Master Plan for ''Metropolis'' -- 35 Hegemann and the Invention of the City Planning Exhibition -- 46 '' The Task of Town Building is an International One and Every Nation May Contribute to Our Knowledge '' -- 58 Conceptual Consequences of the Universal Exhibition -- 68 Fur Gross Berlin -- 81 Color Plates -- 85 3. New Worlds -- 85 The Lecture Tour of 1913 -- 115 Hegemann & Peets, City Planning and Landscape Architects -- 139 The American Vitruvius : mAn Architect's Handbook of Civic Art -- 146 4. Theory and Criticism -- 146 Back to a Broken Continent -- 152 Wasmuth Verlag -- 157 Amerikanismus and the Frank Lloyd Wright Debate -- 167 Mendelsohn, '' One of the Most Inventive among Modern Architects'' -- 179 Conflicting Visions of the Modern City -- 192 Pitfalls of Critism -- 211 Modernism : Style of Function 226 Race and Culture 240 5. Life in Ideological Times -- 240 Alemannenstrasse 21 -- 252 Urban Interchange in the Southern Cone -- 265 Romanticism, Classicism, Style or Virtue -- 276 The Stones of Berlin -- 291 Hegemann, Belletrist -- 304 Berlin 1933 -- 322 6. Exile -- 322 New York and the New School for Social Research -- 326 Refugee without Refuge -- 330 Academic Prospects -- 341 ''Housing'': Full Circle -- 362 An Untimely Death -- 369 Notes -- 409 Bibliography -- 411 Index --

Resumen: "Werner Hegemann (1881-1936), a German-born multidisciplinary critic of the built environment, was well known in Europe and the United States in his lifetime. A critic rather than a designer, he did not fit easily into any school or category. To those seeking to promote modernism, Hegemann was something of an awkward figure - influential and undoubtedly authoritative but unorthodox. Today, however, when studies of modernism have largely shed their proselytizing role, he is of great relevance. Our interest now is less in those who proposed the answers than in those who asked the questions - and particularly the way in which those questions were framed. For this Hegemann is a key figure." "Based on documentation largely unavailable in English - including Hegemann's published and unpublished writings, his correspondence, his diaries, the author's interviews, archival materials lent to her by Hegemann's widow, and the author's own substantial collection - this is the first comprehensive study of Hegemann for historians, architects, and urbanists." --

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Addressing the life and work of a major figure of the Modern Movementin architecture and city planning, about whom very little is known,this first full study of Werner Hegemann (1881-1936) recounts hiscontribution to the emerging discipline of international city planningand his influential position within the movement.

The foremost scholar on Hegemann, Collins examines the theoretical and ideological basis of his belief in an urban universality to benefit humanity and discusses the criticism he encountered to present a comprehensive analysis of a leader in a field just beginning to define itself.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-410) and index.

Contents:
7 Acknowledgments --
9 Preface --
11 Sources --
15 1. A Transatlantic Education --
15 Prussia to Pennsylvania --
19 Boston 1915 --
32 2. A New Discipline --
32 A Master Plan for ''Metropolis'' --
35 Hegemann and the Invention of the City Planning Exhibition --
46 '' The Task of Town Building is an International One and Every Nation May Contribute to Our Knowledge '' --
58 Conceptual Consequences of the Universal Exhibition --
68 Fur Gross Berlin --
81 Color Plates --
85 3. New Worlds --
85 The Lecture Tour of 1913 --
115 Hegemann & Peets, City Planning and Landscape Architects --
139 The American Vitruvius : mAn Architect's Handbook of Civic Art --
146 4. Theory and Criticism --
146 Back to a Broken Continent --
152 Wasmuth Verlag --
157 Amerikanismus and the Frank Lloyd Wright Debate --
167 Mendelsohn, '' One of the Most Inventive among Modern Architects'' --
179 Conflicting Visions of the Modern City --
192 Pitfalls of Critism --
211 Modernism : Style of Function
226 Race and Culture
240 5. Life in Ideological Times --
240 Alemannenstrasse 21 --
252 Urban Interchange in the Southern Cone --
265 Romanticism, Classicism, Style or Virtue --
276 The Stones of Berlin --
291 Hegemann, Belletrist --
304 Berlin 1933 --
322 6. Exile --
322 New York and the New School for Social Research --
326 Refugee without Refuge --
330 Academic Prospects --
341 ''Housing'': Full Circle --
362 An Untimely Death --
369 Notes --
409 Bibliography --
411 Index --

"Werner Hegemann (1881-1936), a German-born multidisciplinary critic of the built environment, was well known in Europe and the United States in his lifetime. A critic rather than a designer, he did not fit easily into any school or category. To those seeking to promote modernism, Hegemann was something of an awkward figure - influential and undoubtedly authoritative but unorthodox. Today, however, when studies of modernism have largely shed their proselytizing role, he is of great relevance. Our interest now is less in those who proposed the answers than in those who asked the questions - and particularly the way in which those questions were framed. For this Hegemann is a key figure." "Based on documentation largely unavailable in English - including Hegemann's published and unpublished writings, his correspondence, his diaries, the author's interviews, archival materials lent to her by Hegemann's widow, and the author's own substantial collection - this is the first comprehensive study of Hegemann for historians, architects, and urbanists." --

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CHOICE Review

Thanks to decades of scholarship by Collins, we now have the first substantive, comprehensive, and coherent review of the role Hegemann (1881-1936), a protean critic, editor, author, and educator, played in the small circle of people grappling seriously with the problems produced by the explosive and inchoate growth of the modern city. Others (e.g., Raymond Unwin, Le Corbusier, Lewis Mumford) whose focus was narrower and whose biographies were more accessible have long overshadowed Hegemann. A pacifist, he devoted his tremendous energy, intelligence, and moral clarity to a wide range of endeavors principally during two periods in his native Germany, interrupted by a sojourn in America in the late 1910s and a final period of exile from Nazi Germany after February 1933. Because Hegemann's reach was so broad, readers must know a great deal if they are to grasp the full richness of his contribution, but to have filled in the background would have made the book unmanageable. More illustrations would have been welcome; the well-made book includes a rich bibliography in the numerous footnotes and an extensive selective list of Hegemann's publications. ^BSumming Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. C. W. Westfall University of Notre Dame

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Christiane Crasemann Collins , a historian of modern architecture and city planning, lives in West Falmouth, Massachusetts.

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