Towards a New Kind of Living : The Werkbund Housing Estate Breslau 1929
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Book Description
Stuttgart's Weissenhof colony had not even reached completion?when in 1927 Werkbund architects in Breslau were already at work?on plans for yet another model housing exhibition - this?one with the aim of advancing the idea of "New Building"?in Silesia.??
Unlike the 1929 Stuttgart-Weissenhof exhibition which had attracted?such luminaries as Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, J.J.P. Oud,?Peter Behrens and Mart Stam, there were no foreign architects?at the Breslau "Wohnung und Werkraum"[Living- and Work?Space] show, labeled WUWA for short. Nonetheless, Hans Scharoun?and Adolf Rading, both associated with the progressive Breslau?Academy, provided spectacular projects of international import.?But it was also the thoroughly modern building approach of Theo?Effenberger, Moritz Hadda and Heim & Kempter that turned the?WUWA into a major «New Building" manifesto which would,?however, fall to obscurity in the postwar period.?The catalogue is the first comprehensive publication on Werkbundsiedlung?Breslau. The extensive illustrations section contains photos,?plans and models of all buildings, some appearing in print for?the first time. The texts, written by field specialists, review?the planning phase and architectural history behind the WUWA,?cover technological, landmark preservation and urban planning?aspects and explain the importance of the Breslau Werkbundsiedlung?for the development of the modern movement.
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Text: German, English
Towards a New Kind of Living: The Werkbund Housing Estate Breslau 1929,Institut fnr Auslandsbezi,Princeton Architectural Press,3764354208,Architecture,Domestic,International Architecture - European,Bibliographies, catalogues, discographies,Germany,Houses, apartments, flats, etc,Inter-war period, 1918-1939,Non-Classifiable
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